E-bay complaints

What I don't understand is why most people don't take a look at the Vintage Computer Marketplace on a regular basis. 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. And FWIW Ebay does not always bring the best pricing. An example would be an Altair 8800 that I needed to sell for expenses that sold for $1500 a year or so ago. Considering that I had gone through it and made sure everything worked, and the unit was in excellent condition cosmetically and had the original manual, it probably was worth closer to $2000. Ebay is the lazy way of retail selling without doing research on what something is worth. And taking advantage (in some cases) of people with more money than brains. 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.)