13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
6:24 p.m.
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:
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.
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.