I am an owner (a proud and rather happy one) of the BOSE Mobile on-ear headphones. For those of you who don’t know, all the mobileness of these headphones (and thus - a difference from significantly less expensive BOSE on-ear headphones) is that you get an audio lead with a microphone, which may be connected to your mobile telephone (iPhone’s naturally included) so you can use it as a headset. Frustratingly, it has no remote control for iPhone and once someone calls you, you still need to take your iPhone out and slide the green arrow).

To make a long story short - this cable has died. It has died and the right headphone started to disappear (while still working should you plug-in headphones to the audio source directly using the tiny 1” wire on the left headphone). I called up BOSE guys and was given a generous offer - I send them my headphones, pay £50 and get a new BOSE mobile headphones. Practically a bargain. After I gracefully refused it, they’ve suggested to go and buy a cable only - this time for ridiculous £39.95.

No, this not gonna work, I said to myself. Indeed, paying forty quid for just a few wires - that’s not a good deal. So I thought a little - if I can connect headphones to my iPhone directly, this means … oh hold on - isn’t this a standard 3.5 headphones jack on the left speaker of my headphones?

So I went to eBay and bought Griffin SmartTalk for £13.50 delivery included; now waiting for it and thinking, that sometimes being greedy just doesn’t work nicely even for customers who can afford buying £150 headphones.

Feel very very stupid indeed - the amp I’ve been looking too went for £52 — which is ridicilously low price — but I didn’t get it.

I use AuctionSniper, which puts bids 3 seconds before auction is completed, it’s very convenient and I won lots of items for quite a low price (competitors simply don’t have enough of time to overbid you). I used it this time as well, but … 3 days ago I changed my eBay password. Well, it was just a routine change, I do it every couple of months, so nothing was wrong … until I received an email from AuctionSniper, saying that eBay rejected my bid due to “Incorrect login/password”.

Damn!!! Why this bloody looser sniper didn’t tell me about it when I only placed a limit? Grrrrrr feeling extremely angry with myself, and now closest possible price is well above 100 for the same unit.

So, we need:

1. New amplifier/receiver - in progress on eBay
   
2. Toslink adapter for iMac + 6m optical cable
3. Central speaker
4. Subwoofer
5. Floor-standers
6. Satellites.

That’s the plan, but let’s do it step-by-step.