Philatelic Scumbags Need a Foot Bath

One dark night a few weeks back I found myself at the bottom of a long and deep ebay search and explore session. At some point along the way I stumbled across an auction for some unusual space stamps. These "stamps" were 3d lenticular prints of images from the Apollo moon project. They were minted by the country of Bhutan in the late 60's in commemoration of the moon landing. Of interest to me was that several of these images weren't photographs of the real events but re enactments with models! The starting bid was .99 and shipping was a couple bucks so I bid. I bid 5.50 which I thought was fair. I had never seen these before and what the heck it's history, vintage cheesy re enacted 3-D history! So days go by and I am the only bidder. This is a sort of calming feeling where you know that you are the only freak in the world who would actually pay for something like this. This is a sort of disturbing feeling knowing that you are the only freak in the world who would actually pay for something like this. So now it's getting down to the final 24 hrs and there is 1 more bidder who bids me up to 1.05. Wow a whole 6 cents! I at this point feel something fishy is about to go down. The next bid comes from another bidder and bumps me up to 5.00. I think this may be an honest bid but feel the ride isn't over yet. Minutes before the end of the auction the first bidder drops a bid pushing me up to 5.50. This is my max and by this time I had actually found another seller who was offering these and more stamps from the same series for much less than I would be obligated to pay if I won this auction. OK it is only $5.50 and not really a big deal but I am really hoping now that this .06 joker who pushed me up to $5.50 is going to get greedy and try to push me up higher. If he does He will win the auction because I am at my max. Well sure enough right before auction end he bids another .50 and wins it for 6.00. I am happy because I get to buy the better lot from the other seller. The day after the auction I receive an email from the first auction that I had lost with a "second chance" offer of $5.50. Well that was very interesting I thought...and quick. Is there that much money to be made in cheesy foreign stamp auctioning that you need to employ a shill? I just don't get it.
So my stamps arrived Saturday from the Netherlands! They are everything I expected and then some! The icing on this cake however were the stamps on the envelope I received them in. Evidently sausages and foot bathing are so popular they get there own stamps! Maybe the first auction guy needs some nice smoked sausage and a soothing foot bath to cure him of his evil ebaying ways.