And it didn't turn into a bidding war...
Late at night browsing ebay. What has it all come to? But I search and I search again and I find an item vastly (well, slightly) undervalued, with a single bid, auction ending soon. The owner has not entered the right keywords, so the item hasn't been discovered (or at least as discovered as other similar items).
And so I wait. 10 minutes, watching the time count down in red letters. When it reaches under a minute I bid on the item, confirm, and - ta-da! I win.
The price was right, the item OK, slightly annoyed by the fact the shipping exceeds the cost of the item (but that's shopping online), now I just have to wait for my present to arrive.
Now I've something to look forward to. Every day, hounding the mailman...checking the letterbox....