When I was in college, I was selling a huge batch of Star Trek figures for a Trading Assistant client before Christmas. One of my good friends was a casual eBay buyer but was fascinated by the selling aspect of it and used to watch my auctions all the time. (Interesting fact: Said friend was the roommate for 4 years of my now husband.)
He imed me and asked if he could bid on some of my items. I told him, of course, and he ended up winning one of the figures (I sadly don’t remember which one). Mind you, it took him like 3 weeks to pay me which is even more pathetic since I saw him every day, especially since when he did finally pay it was via PayPal which I consider to be a party foul since he made me pay fees. I naturally ribbed him about this.
After shouting across the quad at him, “Don’t make me file a non-paying bidder report on you! Don’t think I won’t do it!” he finally paid me that day and I walked over to his dorm and handed him his item (fastest and easiest shipping ever).
So the next day I am looking at my feedback and my buddy had left me feedback and it was a positive and all it said was, “Enjoy the eggnog!” I’m like, what kind of feedback is that? Then, on a whim, I walk over to the fridge in my apartment and there is a carton of eggnog with a post-it note on it that says “for Hillary.” I consider this a more than fair trade for making me wait and pay PayPal fees.
Sadly, that feedback is so buried back in my feedback list I couldn’t even find it to get the exact wording or date but it will stick forever in my mind as my favorite feedback ever.
So consider this a little wish from me that you and yours have an excellent holiday, whichever holiday you celebrate, and a wonderful, and successful, New Year!
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Hey, 3 weeks to pay back in the day wasn’t all that unusual …neither was 3 weeks to ship though say I’d say you more than held up your seller end of the bargain! In fact back then it wouldn’t have been entirely crazy to drink the egg nog and pack off the Star Trek figure to him in the empty carton.
Merry Christmas, Hillary!