After trying 3 times yesterday and 2 times on Wednesday night, I finally won an eBay auction! I just hope it's easy enough to assemble when we get it.

It was a 6-item auction from armarkat (www.armarkat.com) and it is a 77 inch tall cat tree - it's really cool. My winning bid was $28, and shipping is $47.78, so I got this giant tree for far less than the retail price - I'd definitely try this again for more cat trees, which I'm sure at some point we'll get more of, since we have a lot of rooms to put them in now. The only drawback is that it is a silver/grey which doesn't exactly go with our new carpet upstairs in our house, but it will be ok in our basement (where we still have the berber carpet from the previous homeowners), where we needed a good cat tree anyway (the exising 5 foot one we had looks nice in our great room upstairs where we don't have furniture yet - it matches the carpet nicely). Here's the link if you want to see my awesome purchase:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ME:B:EOAB:US:6