E-bay complaints

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <42C96493.1C70AEA5 at rain.org>
          Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org> wrote:

> I just sold an MPF-1 on VCM (http://www.vintagecomputermarketplace.com/)
> for $20.00. Sure, I could have probably gotten more for it on Ebay, but
> why not list stuff *FIRST* on VCM with a reasonable price that sellers
> can live with????? And once the ad copy and photo(s) are taken, it is
> trivial to move the listing over to Ebay if it doesn't sell on VCM.

I actually saw that one first - then spotted the "SOLD" tag next to it. I
would have paid that in a heartbeat...

> And I couldn't agree more with Joe's comments; there is a LOT of stuff
> out there for anyone who takes the time to develop a network and
> sources. As one example, I would have never gotten the worlds largest
> supply of existing Polymorphic software, documentations, equipment, etc.
> without the network I have in place. Nor would I (in years past) have
> aquired some 50 coinop arcade games at no charge (most are now gone.)

I've tried looking around here - talked to friends, mentioned a few of my
hobbies, and all I ended up with was 10 useless 486-class PCs. Someone
literally drove a pickup truck up to the garage door while I was out and
dumped the whole lot on the drive. Soaked, mangled and basically useless.
Very annoying, especially when I said "if it runs DOS or Windows, I'm not
interested, call me and ask first."

*sigh*

I did thank them for the gesture, found two working hard drives (the rest
were either gone or dead) and stole the SIMMs, but the machines ended up in
a skip.

Later.
-- 
Phil.                              | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem at philpem.me.uk              | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
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... Get 'em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.