A weekly airdrop of Exchange & Mart was the luxury I used to think I’d choose when the producers of Desert Island Discs realised who they’d been missing all these years.
A weekly airdrop of Exchange & Mart was the luxury I used to think I’d choose when the producers of Desert Island Discs realised who they’d been missing all these years. But now, I fear, it would be access to eBay, that wonderful source of 24-hour auto-porn, plus everything else. Just to browse — I’d have nothing to bid with, of course, though that needn’t stop me.
Wonderful though eBay is, it should be negotiated with care. Not only is there always something you persuade yourself you need, when you don’t, but you can also fall victim to desert-island dwellers who mischievously run up the auction prices for eventual buyers.
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