Ah, eBay...

Good old eBay. When you have a nice CROSS Ion pen, and CROSS stop making them, thankfully eBay can still source the refills. Hallelujah!

Bad old eBay. You go looking for tasty, tempting (no, not an ad for Supermacs!) mandolins to send on to tempt your colleagues ("Well, hello there!!!"), and you end up buying a curved soprano sax instead...

But, good old eBay. The curved soprano sax turns out to be a gem.