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Originally Posted by Alyss
...Then the people had the nerve to ask for our second V8 motor in return for buying a second hand bed for $150. We decline that offer.  How rude! |
Your parents should have regarded first engine (we don't call them "motors" in English. Nice to know, you learned a German word, though) as a promotional offer and have sold the second one, without reflecting on the first one as a gift.
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder
...This week I gave away a very interesting small lampshade. Why interesting? Because I'm not sure what it was made of...
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If you would have auctioned it off on e-bay, you probably would have earned good money, because it was your (and not anyone else's) personal posession. Potential buyers would have chanced it's authenticy, hoping it might be genuine.