SWIFTLY DOES IT

摘要

"One Friday night, in November 2006, I was surfing the net," recalls Aidan McGrath, who lives near Dublin in Ireland. "After a few beers I spotted this automatic Clubman Estate for sale in Northern Ireland, on eBay. Having looked at the pictures, and seeing that the auction was finishing later that night, I put on a bid of £620 and went to bed. I checked the listing in the morning and found I had been outbid by £30 so I thought nothing of it. Two days later the seller contacted me and said that the winning bid was from France and the bidder had thought the Mini was on the UK mainland. When they realised it was in Northern Ireland they did not want it so the seller offered it to me at my bid of £620. I agreed to buy it at that price and off I went the following weekend and collected it."