Liverpool Soccer Jersey

I just won an auction for a Liverpool Soccer Jersey on eBay for one cent.

Yup ... one cent.

Here's how it happened ... I was browsing through the Liverpool jersey listings and found an auction with no bids. The starting bid was only one cent, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I actually set my top bid a good bit higher than one cent, but as it turned out, no one else bid on the shirt.

I was amazed to see eBay's Congratuations! letter pop up in my mailbox when I won the auction.

Flabbergasted, even.

Now I may have won the auction for the Liverpool jersey for a penny, but there are substantial shipping fees involved. The seller has asked for $12 to ship (from Thailand, imagine that), along with $2 insurance (required). Okay, so the Liverpool soccer shirt isn't going to cost me one penny, it's actually going to cost me $14.01.

Maybe I'll spend the extra cash on a polyphonic You'll Never Walk Alone ringtone and a six-pack of Carlsberg. :)

From what I can tell, this eBay seller uses the one penny starting tactic fairly often. I suppose it might work in the seller's favor--particularly when the shipping charges are inflated--but in this case, the buyer prevailed.

There's no reason to hum along when Liverpool's favorite anthem plays ...

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

- Rodgers & Hammerstein