On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bruce Lane wrote:
I would add to this another pet dislike I have for
E-bilk (much better
name, BTW). To my eyes, they are in large part (sheer unmitigated greed
makes up the other part) responsible for the decline in quality and
quantity of equipment that used to show up at hamfests and other
electronic-oriented swap meets.
You've noticed this decline as well? :-( Interesting hackish things
seem to be getting more and more difficult to find a hamfests. The
last one I went to had very little, and most I've been to, I've seen
people going around buying large quantities of things,
indiscriminantly, just to snap them up, apparently to resell on e-bilk
or squirrel away in storage... or even to sell them at 200-percent and
much higher, mark-ups at the same hamfest. Disgusting.
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R. D. Davis
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