Quote Originally Posted by Captain Wrong
I think to most of us "old school" type, "find" implys you actually left your house, went to garage sales, thrift stores, estate auctions or whatever and actually got a good deal on something. I understand that it's mostly a semantic thing and one man's eBay purchase is another man's "find," but I, for one, appreciate the distinction.

thats how I always viewed it....you actually went outside into fresh, or not so fresh, air and found something in real life

ebay isnt a find....ebay does the search for you, so technically ebay found it....not you, you just looked at the results that ebay found