All Wrong on eBay

Susan Starcevic: My Mother.
     In 1984 she orchestrated the purchase of our family's first home computer, the Colecovision Adam. A computer so atrociously designed and marketed that it single handedly bancrupted the venerable Connecticut Leather Company (Coleco. Even the Cabbage Patch craze couldn't save it!)
     I thought nothing of it other than the video games it could play.
     On evening a day or so after setting it up my mom stayed up late and programmed a simple mad-lib program onto it from a SmartBasic tutorial book. She then carefully wrote a note and left it on the desk before going to bed.
     Very early the next morning I descended into the basement, eager to feed my burgeoning video game addiction before anyone else woke up.
     The note was a step-by-step instruction on how to boot up SmartBasic, load the program she wrote, and run it. I was so fascinated by the process that it launched me into a lifetime fascination with computer technology that ensured that I remained a virgin until I was 21, and which now provides me with my comfortable middle-class lifestyle.
     I am convinced that, if she had been exposed to technology at an early age like myself, she would have been a queen geek. But because she was in her late thirties when she first sat at a microcomputer keyboard, I think she was culturally disadvantaged and ill equipped to fully realize her potential in this regard. While she remains unafraid of technology, and an enthusiastic user to boot (pardon the freakin' pun), she never became a programmer or an IT kinda woman. An ace with a spreadsheet, Quicken, or Turbotax, though...
     Anyway, my computer skills surpass hers in most every way except one:
     She is a persistent and savvy internet researcher. Lately she has begun a new hobby: finding out the truth about stuff she sees for sale on eBay.
     Why am I telling you this? Because I want you to visit my Mom's new blog:
http://allwrongebay.blogspot.com/ in which she will tell of things she found out about things people didn't know about when they tried to sell them to other people on eBay.
Let me know what you think about it!