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eBay is the Boss of Me

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Hi, I'm Dixie and I'm an eBayaholic. (Hi Dixie!) 

By  Dixie Feldman

No, that's not true. I'm not addicted so much as co-dependent. No, not so much a co-dependent as...a slave. That's it, I am a big fat slave to ebay. It's like having a dysfunctional relationship with a boyfriend; sometimes your pulse races and your heart beats faster and it's thrilling, and sometimes you just feel like a sorry-ass victim. But just like the Skinnerian rat that I am, the intermittent good keeps me pressing the lever even more, hooked as I am on trying to re-create those sporadic highs.

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