Mouthpieces and white socks.

Er, I mean Sox. Go White Sox.
Except I have this curse, where whatever team I want to win can't. So maybe I ought to turn the game off.

Anyway, I have this mouthpiece, a Monette, gold plated B4L mouthpiece for my trumpet, which I put up on eBay along with my trumpet a bit ago, both of which sold. Well, as it turns out, the "poor college kid" who bought my mouthpiece backed out of the sale. He's supposedly going to send me $8 to cover the listing fees, but who knows if he is going to do that. Anyway, the mouthpiece sold for $135 last time, Buy It Now...within a day of being up on auction.

This time around, the bidding started at $75, and has been bid up to a whopping $76, with 3 days left. I've got a couple of guys who asked about shipping to Italy, two different people, so hopefully they will throw some bids down there at the end. I would hate to have to end up selling my mouthpiece for $50 less than what someone else already had agreed to buy it for. I should make the other guy pay the difference between what it sells for and what he agreed to pay.

So I'm going to cross my fingers and hope those Italians go nuts on it, and I actually get some money.

Moral is: Deadbeat bidders can burn in a very very special level of Hell, the kind reserved for child molesters, and people who talk at the theatre.