Ebaying

I haven't done "real ebaying" for a while.  S had an idea of a present, and I explained to her that in order to get the best price, we need to do some stalking and strategic bidding, and with some luck, we would get the thing at the price we wanted.  I did her bidding, literally, and missed out at the end, she thought this akin to gambling, which in my opinion is nothing alike.  It is like a "free spin", and if you land on a "prize", you can buy it at a fair cost, I don't think it has much reassemblance to real gambling.