bargain hunters welcome (cokeauction.co.uk)

Member Name: mrsbbq

Product:	cokeauction.co.uk
Date:	22/10/00 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: if you drink regular coke anyway, its stuff for nothing

Disadvantages: too late to get any of the good stuff at a reasonable bid

I like a bargain (as in I like to breathe). Nothing pleases me more than when my half-price undies from figleaves.com arrive or my discounted book from amazon.co.uk. So imagine the scene when I was waiting to pay for my shopping in Sainsburys (real life, not dotcom), and I could just about make out the words "cokeauction" around the bottle two people in front of me. Near panic gripped me, what was I missing out on? Torn between the expense of purchasing a bottle or following the other shoppers home and going through their garbage, I INVESTED 69 pence in my own bottle.

The rest, as they say, is history. Within the first week of the site going live I had recruited just about everyone in my corner of the office to sign up for their 500 free credits and soon the little brown jiffy bags began to roll in. The quality and value of the items we managed to get in that first week has varied immensely: we found the blue beads and silver photo frame in a "clearance" store for £1.99, the teeny tiny maglite retails for £6.99 in a local camping store) and the daft microphone recorder keyring is in an Innovations type catalogue for £9.99. I managed to get two sets of makeup in that first week for my 500 points and the Max Factor lipstick is a gorgeous colour.

In a few days the "prices" began to rise. Bidding is most furious in the hour or so before the auction closes, and you need to be a serious coke addict (the brown stuff not the white stuff) to get anything these days. Its kinda tempting to cruise the train, inspecting everyones rubbish in the hopes of that sparkly red ring pull.

I'm still a minor league player, congrats to Rowena for getting her DVD player and to Scott who gets a couple of items PER WEEK (but can he still chew?) Coke auction labels are now few and far between, none in my local supermarkets anymore, still able to pick up the occasional can from the newsagent. It will be interesting to see if the bi
dding levels off, or gets even more crazy as everyone tries to dump what they have collected.



Cans and bottles are now in

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