Small world found on Internet auction site

“It‘s a small world after all.”
At least it was the day Denise Tattrie of Fort Frances sold a piece of china online at the “ebay” auction site.
Out of the millions of people cruising the information highway, it ended up being someone right here who was the highest bidder on the “Lady Alexander Rose” (Bell China) saucer she had up for sale.
“I had bought quite a bit on ‘ebay’ and thought I’d try and sell something so I put the saucer on a seven-day auction,” Tattrie, a teacher at Robert Moore School here, said Monday.
Once a particular auction is closed, “ebay” sends the seller the e-mail address of the person who bought the item. The two individuals then have a three-day maximum to wrap up the deal privately.
“ebay gave me the [buyer’s] e-mail address and I looked at it and noticed it had ‘Jam21.net’ attached to it and I said, ‘Wait a minute, that sounds familiar,’” Tattrie recalled.
“I e-mailed [the buyer] and said ‘Are you local?’ and here it was Dianne Thompson, one of the teachers I work with,” she chuckled. “I had heard her talking about buying china on the Internet but I had no idea [we’d connect].
“I started laughing [when] I looked at the person’s name who was selling [the saucer],” said Thompson, who bought the saucer for $3 (U.S.) “That’s the first time that’s ever happened.” 
But in another ‘ebay’ story, head librarian Margaret Sedgwick came up empty-handed while bidding on a 1929 postcard of the Fort Frances Public Library.
Much to her dismay, she was outbid–even though she had offered $5 (U.S.) for the postcard.
“Why would anyone else want it, really?” she wondered. “Maybe whoever bought it will donate it [to the library].”