Back when I was new to Seattle, I immersed myself in its history and collected a bunch of glasses and memorabilia from the 1962 World's Fair.

Then I stuck them all in a cabinet in the hallway and hardly looked at them.

I realized a few months ago that they really serve no purpose as I don't enjoy them so I'm auctioning them off on eBay.

Most of them have gone for under $5.00 which is fine because the buyer pays the shipping too and as long as they're out of here, I'm kool wid dat.

But I got stiffed with one glass. The buyer won it on May 30 and hasn't replied to three invoices since then. So I opened a Dispute yesterday and if the buyer doesn't respond to it, I get back my $.40 insertion fee from eBay and can relist the glass.

A lot of people don't like eBay because of stuff like this and I can see their point. Selling these things has become a giant hassle with no profit in it (except bare shelf space). I told Miss Significantly Other that it would literally bring me more satisfaction to take the glasses up on the roof and drop them off one by one just to watch them explode when they hit.

Even with having to clean up the mess that would be more fun than cleaning the glasses, photographing them, writing the ad, uploading the ad, waiting and monitoring the auction, packing the glasses, paying for and printing postage, mailing the package, waiting for delivery and leaving feedback.

It's definitely not worth the hassle of Disputing a $5 payment.