02-10-09, 07:12 AM
I found them on the Azerbaijanian equivalent of Ebay whose name translates as "handsome donkey trading" and due to the average weekly wage in Azerbaijan being about 120k Manats (about £12) I thought I was in with a good chance of winning them for cheaps.
Unfortunately, at the time, I got my calculations wrong and put the decimal point in the wrong place and ironically ended up bidding against just about the only person in Azerbaijan capable of outbidding me, the exiled President of Turkmenistan, the right honourable Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi who I've known for a while is a fan of Superstars.
Anyhow, he hadn't had such a good harvest and couldn't afford to go over 150mln Manats so I got 'em.
The shipping cost me 500 qəpiks which is roughly the cost of 8 bails of hay, apparently.
It was an interesting process but I'm never doing it again, Azerbaijani tradition dictates that you must speak to those above you (the seller) in rhyming poems which was a right hassle considering Azerbaijanian is only my 3rd language.
Unfortunately, at the time, I got my calculations wrong and put the decimal point in the wrong place and ironically ended up bidding against just about the only person in Azerbaijan capable of outbidding me, the exiled President of Turkmenistan, the right honourable Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi who I've known for a while is a fan of Superstars.
Anyhow, he hadn't had such a good harvest and couldn't afford to go over 150mln Manats so I got 'em.
The shipping cost me 500 qəpiks which is roughly the cost of 8 bails of hay, apparently.
It was an interesting process but I'm never doing it again, Azerbaijani tradition dictates that you must speak to those above you (the seller) in rhyming poems which was a right hassle considering Azerbaijanian is only my 3rd language.