last week i found a chair on craigslist that i really liked. the price was really high, but i recognized the background of the photos as being the same person's house who i had bought my light fixture off of on ebay. she usually has a dozen or so mid-century items listed so i tend to check her ebay site about once a week. i decided to go look and see if she was also posting the chair on her ebay site. she was, so i placed a much lower bid on ebay and decided to just see what happen.

tuesday morning i was checking craigslist while eating my breakfast at work. right away i spotted a set of 4 dining chairs that i really liked and felt were worth a lot more $$ than what they were listed for. they had been posted late the night before and since it was so early, i figured i was probably one of the first people to see them. mike called the seller right away and said we'd be over that evening to buy them. the seller promised to give us a call if anything else came up or if anyone else tried to buy them throughout the day.

throughout the day on tuesday mike and i both did a ton of research (as well as contacted another blogger who knows a lot more about mid-century furniture) and quickly found out that the chairs were worth a lot more. like at least 10xs the price he was asking on craigslist. as much as i liked them, we did not really need more dining chairs... our plan quickly became that we would buy them and turn around and sell them on ebay. whatever profit we made we could use towards purchasing other furniture for our house.

as soon as work was over on tuesday mike called the craigslist seller to confirm the time and location... and the guy informed mike that he had ended up selling them to "a buddy" that had come over earlier. he did not call us as he had previously promised. mike and i were very frustrated. the chairs were gone.

last night the bid ended on the other chair on ebay - we won the chair. i noticed that the ebay seller had posted some new listings. guess what she had listed? yep, the 4 chairs that were supposed to be ours from craigslist. now, i don't really know what happened, but i'm assuming that she also spotted them on craigslist, contacted the seller, and offered him more $$. i'm just annoyed that he didn't give us a chance to up our offer price. and now i get to see how much the ebay seller ends up getting for them...