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..to hate eBay?

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LittleMy34 · 13/02/2008 20:04

I know I am being unreasonable, but.....have been looking for a particular bunny rabbit comfort blanket from Mothercare ever since DS was about 4 months (he's now 2yrs) and Mothercare unhelpfully discontinued it. He has one which is rapidly falling to bits and he leaves it in increasingly inventive places, and I'm petrified of losing it, as he won't sleep without it.

Two have come up on eBay since I've been looking, and both times someone has outbid me in the last ten seconds leaving me no time to do a counter bid. I know that's how it works, but at least in real life auctions the auctioneer gives everyone time to make their bids. And I know I should have put bigger bids in, but on the last one i was highest bid at £38, had put in £70 to be safe, and someone bid £72 at the last second.....

so just wanted to vent a bit of frustration.....chances of another one coming up are slim, to say the least!

anyone got a Mothercare bunny blanket comforter?

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fingerwoman · 13/02/2008 20:07

£72??????????/ blimey, you must all be desperate for that bunny!

do you have a pic of it?

fingerwoman · 13/02/2008 20:07

btw, with ds1's bunny I sewed a loop of fabric onto it and if he takes it out I clip it onto him/'the pushchair with one of those dummy clips.

choosyfloosy · 13/02/2008 20:08

hell's bells!

i guess the only thing to do is to find one with a Buy it Now option, or at least email the seller offering £70 and I bet they will sell it to you!!

mumofdjandp · 13/02/2008 20:09

I use a sniper that bids for me 7 secs before and I dont even have to be there x

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LittleMy34 · 13/02/2008 20:13

Aha! I bet there was some sniper software involved. I was trying to bath DS at the same time, so not as quick to respond as I'd like to be.

and pic of bunny is here (while auction is still up there)

bunny

I know it's ridiculous, but life without bunny doesn't bear thinking about. we tried it once as an experiment, and it was truly awful. am at letting one toy become so important!

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Flibbertyjibbet · 13/02/2008 20:14

Omg £70 for a little bunny???? SEVENTY TWO POUNDS FOR A LITTLE BUNNY???
Jeez you could feed our family of 4 for a fortnight on that. But thats another menu-planning type thread
We have teddy etc and blankie for our two. The rule is that they never leave the house. Teddy gets tucked up in bed and blankie is put under the pillow so he knows its safe.
Sometimes there is a tantrum before we leave the house or they try to sneak them out but we usually disuade them by saying 'oh no, if you take it out of the house someone will PINCH it' which does the trick.
Leave it at home = no chance of losing it. (Unless you go on hols in which case its safe in bag and he doesn't know you brought it till bedtime).

Flibbertyjibbet · 13/02/2008 20:15

BTW we got without the original blankie a couple of months back. Nightmare for 3 nights then all is ok. so don't think she can't live without it, because she CAN.

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LittleMy34 · 13/02/2008 20:18

that's good advice, and I know, the price was ridiculous. I can only claim eBay fever. Now I'm sitting down with a glass of wine I can see how ridiculous it is.

3 nights? that's worth knowing.

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mumofdjandp · 13/02/2008 20:19
mumofdjandp · 13/02/2008 20:20

oh hi flibberty didnt see you there!

jellies · 13/02/2008 20:20

We bought a second bear for exactly the same reason.. but he wont touch it looks exactly the same.. even when he looses the other one he will not go near it says its to hot? Maybe don't waste your money!

Flibbertyjibbet · 13/02/2008 20:23

OR
I have one of those little dummy clips you can have ffp. We didn't use dummies but I used to loop toys etc on it.

Also, if you get a duplicate in good condition when the other one is really wearing out, she won't accept it. Ds2 has duplicate teddies, just by chance someone bought him a duplicate 6 months after I got him one. He wouldn't accept the new one till it had been washed several times and I'd slept with it for a few nights. He accepted it but the other had only been used 6 months so they were in the same condition iyswim.

When I say 3 nightmare nights - well the first three where a nightmare of him not sleeping, a few more nights of him being really unsettled and keep getting up. Then nothing. Wish I'd got rid of the damn thing a lot earlier!

WallOfSilence · 13/02/2008 20:24

Oh. sweet. mother. of. god.

£72 for a fucking blanket!!!!!!!

Are you nuts??? Seriously... £70.

You were willing to part with £70 of hard cash for a blanket with stuffed arms & head, are you mad?

BibiThree · 13/02/2008 20:25

Really, for £72 I'd make you one myself. I'm glad you can see now it was ebay fever - do you feel a bit relieved you're not £72 lighter?

I'm sure you'll get one somewhere soon.

Flibbertyjibbet · 13/02/2008 20:27

Hmmm someone gave me a Jellycat doggy comforter that we didn't use

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LittleMy34 · 13/02/2008 20:28

Can I just say I DIDN'T pay £72. My highest bid was £38 (had agreed £40 with DP as our maximum). The swooper paid £72.

But I admit the eBay Fever had caused me to enter £70 as my highest bid, in the spirit of making sure. So I AM GLAD I didn't get it at that price.

And that's why I hate eBay.

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LittleMy34 · 13/02/2008 20:30

jellies - too hot? that's a strange reason not to like it....but it's probably true that original bunny is now so battered that a new bunny probably wouldn't cut it.

once again - it's the fact that eBay makes you a bit crazy that i hate. i am glad i didn't pay silly money for it. it's that clock counting down that gets you all of a jitter, and your common sense leaves you.

tsk. might have to go cold turkey on the computer.

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cheeset · 13/02/2008 20:40

WallOfSilence, so funny

Ineedacleaner · 13/02/2008 20:41

DD has a teddy same idea as the bunny head with a blanket body and when seh was small and formed an atatchment to it we bought another and alternated them so that they both became equally as battered worked fine, lost the first one a couple of years ago so bought another but she wouldn't go near it always went for the ripped ragged one.

Then she finally after him being the luckiest teddy in the world and always turning up she lost it last year (she was not long 3) and told her it had gone and she was actually fine with it but she suddenly fell in love with the pristine one which even now she is 4 goes to bed every with every night.

So personally I would be glad I never even spent £40 on one but I can also totally see why you would be desperate enough to want to replace it. Your ds will carry it around even when there is only 1 inch square left of it.

expatinscotland · 13/02/2008 20:41

I got screwed by a buyer on Ebay a couple of years back and have never used it since.

It rots.

rantinghousewife · 13/02/2008 20:50

I don't use ebay so much nowadays, (am sure that lots of sellers bump up their bids, am sure of it). I have, however picked up a gumtree habit, and you can still get bargains on there.

mumofdjandp · 13/02/2008 20:57

ooh gumtree, how do I find my local one?

rantinghousewife · 13/02/2008 21:00

Gumtree.com

soopermum1 · 13/02/2008 21:37

if it's any help, my DS used to be addicted to his dummy. when he turned 3 we thuoght enough was enough and at xmas we asked him to leave all his dummies out with the mince pies and carrots for rudolph so santa could come and take the dummies and give them to some poor babies, sa he was a big boy and didn't need them and he would get presents from santa. have seen supernanny do something similar with the dummy fairies and the nappy pirates from what i remember.

worked a treat for us, maybe you could do something similar with bunny? we had plenty of conversations after xmas about where the dummies had gone just to reaffirn the situation and to make sure he understood, which he did and he seemed quite proud of his 'sacrifice'

that e bayer must be rubbing their hands in glee, you and the rival bidder will have made his/her day. they probably ony expected a couple of quid for it

Desiderata · 13/02/2008 21:51

Seriously, Little. You need to get a grip on this before it gets beyond a joke.

There will be many stages (potty training not the least of it) when you will have to stand firm. £70 on a bloody blanket suggests that you might be heading for trouble later on. The chances are that if you bought him a brand new one, he'd hate it anyway.

I don't mean to sound harsh, honestly .. and my ds has never cared for soft toys or blankets anyway so I understand that it's easy for me to say ... but he was a dummy fiend, and a nappy for poohs fiend until very recently, so we all have our crosses to bear.

Forget the blanket. He's two. He'll move on to something else.

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