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Tue | July 11, 2006

My Little Ponies on Ebay

I finally got a My Little Pony. It took awhile because Ebay, like everything else, is way too complicated. I "lost" the first several "bids" I made for other ponies, due to "sniping," or also just not having enough yuppie cash to throw at the auction (on ebay you can win anything by brute force if you have enough money). So I got a pony from 1984, Posey, whom I vaguely remember. At first I just wanted to get Firefly or Windy, one of the ponies I had when I was a kid... but soon I realized this was a chance to get a new pony I had never had before. So I got one of the Earth ponies, as opposed to Firefly who was a pegasus, and Windy who was a unicorn. Posey is pastel yellow with white hair, and tulips on her rump.

What else... I now have all this knowledge about My Little Ponies that I don't really need because I'm not going to become a My Little Pony collector. Not just about My Little Ponies but who sells them, like this woman in Utah named Maxene, who goes by the username dot100dogs. She curls their hair and gives them a spiral on the mane that's a bit of a Hasidic look. Other sellers are omeezponeez and babydoll84_uk, and I'm sure I would start to recognize more sellers if I kept doing this.

There's something addictive about it, I mean I've killed a lot of time looking at these auctions, and I'm going to have to ease myself away from it. I'm kind of glad that I don't have more cash in my paypal account. Well, I have twenty dollars left. So I could get one more, or even two, if I buy shoddy, poorly advertised ones. Mostly I think I should appreciate my cute little Posey. What's weird is I recognize the smell of the plastic. It's faint but I definitely remember it.

Tonight I bid on Tic Tac Toe from '87, a bold yellow sparkle-eyed pony, and lost for like sixteen dollars. The pink sparkle-eyed pony was going for something like sixty bucks. I think there are a total of four or six sparkle-eyed ponies. Previously I bid on Butterscotch, an Earth pony from my time ('82-83), and Applejack, whom I remember. Applejack is a light orange Earth pony with freckles, one of only two ponies that had frekles on its face. The other was Bowtie, a blue pony with pink hair. Then there were these ponies that had tinsel mixed in with their hair. There was one called Princess Amber that I bid on.

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