Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1" on eBay

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:
> 
> > I was looking at a stack of SCA HD's that person has currently on
> > ebay, something about them bothered me and I didn't bid.
> 
> You chose wisely.
> 

The best approach to take is to treat eBay as a peer-to-peer
marketplace.  Anytime you buy used stuff from an outfit with a massive
dose of boilerplate about policies, etc. on the bid page, you're dealing
with a junk dealer who buys skids of trash from the back dock of a
repair depot somewhere.

I buy SCA drives and stuff like that when it appears to be coming from a
'sysadmin' somewhere who gets to 'junk out' the old machines at work and
sells the drives for beer money.  And from fellow enthusiasts.