Ebay idiocy

I've never sold anything on E-bay, and probably never will. If I have spare stuff, whether it's an empty cardboard box, or a complete minicomputer system, I;d rather it went to what I know to be a good home. So it's likely to go to somebody I know personally... I've bought a few things on E-bay, sure, and I don't like some of their policies. But I buy items there because it's the only place I can find them. At the moment I am mostly interested in the HP98x0 machines and more particularly their add-on ROM modules nad peripheral interfaces, since I have one of each of the main machines (9810, 9820, 9830, I'd love to find a 9821, but those are really rare I am told). Anywy. the interfaces seem to be pretty darn rare. I've been looking at E-bay seriously for 2 or 3 years now, and in that time I think I've only seen _6_ such modules, I won the bidding on 5 of them :-). And AFAIK not one of the sllers was a member of this list. Now, if such things were routinely sold on VCM, you can bet I'd bid there to0. As it is, I have ot buy from where they're being sold, and that's E-bay. -tony