Both parties could use a few more endorsements on their respective reality checks, and one of the best places I've seen for that lately is the Internet auction, as exemplified by the massive online garage sale that is eBay . Despite its seemingly pig-Latinate name, eBay is quite serious.
Items selling for two bucks get the same general level of service as items selling for two million .
Over 1500 categories cover almost any conceivable legal item, though worrying over the impact of gun laws has led the service to discontinue firearms listings this year. At any given moment, eBay lists more than a million items for sale, a number so astonishing to me, at least at first, that I had to go poking around in some of the categories in search of desirable oddities. It didn't take long to find a fistful of goodies for my shelf. I was ready to go shopping. Bidding is a simple matter of completing a form and watching events unfold.