20 Apr
2016
20 Apr
'16
9:50 a.m.
On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:44, Paul Koning <paulkoning
at comcast.net> wrote:
That sounds right. Then again, eBay seems to be going out of its way to alienate large
numbers of people. In the case discussed here, it may be a one-off change. But in other
areas it's deliberate broad policy. Ask gun collectors/owners about eBay policies
some time.
As a gun collector/owner, let me go ask myself...
Boy, did I just get an earful! :)
A non-PC eBay competitor could potentially win a large
audience.
Like gunbroker.com, for example. I think that venue has been pretty successful. But it
also has a much larger target market than vintage computer collectors, I think, and
it's dealing with items that eBay entirely forbids, thus greatly reducing the amount
of healthy (?) competition from eBay. In our specific situation here, eBay is just fine
with our items of interest being sold on eBay, but they simply annoy some (many? most?
few? just the cantankerous ones?) of us enough that we wish there was a better venue.
Whether we can make a viable alternate venue seems doubtful to me, but I'll
participate if we give it a try.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/