E-bay complaints

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <1120502180.10023.68.camel at weka.localdomain>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Most of the stuff I get (albeit for the museum, not personally) comes
> from local usenet groups,

Tried that one - most of the uk.leeds.*.forsale type NGs seem to be full of
asshat spammers and such. Oh how I miss my spam-filtered cis-dfn newsfeed :(

> or the university - it's at the stage now

I think I mentioned the "destroy everything" attitude the local universities
and colleges share.

> where the local population seem to know to chuck things this way. I've
> only recently joined the local freecycle group, so I'm not sure how good
> that'll be in terms of stuff yet.

I'm on the Leeds freecycle group - haven't seen anything interesting yet.

> Landfill / scrapyards in the UK don't seem to be anything like their US
> counterparts according to what I've seen on this list - there just
> aren't items there for the taking.

I've noticed that too :-/

> There is stuff out there anyway - you just need to give people a prod
> every once in a while and get yourself noticed as someone who can give
> this stuff a home.

Time to put something of a virtual classiccmp museum on my website then, I
guess.

Later.
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