I [don't] hate E-Bay (was Cromemco 68000 on ebay)

Tony Duell wrote: I got screwed by them recently - and they were quite underhanded about it and tried to claim it was my bank's fault. My bank were all very good about it though and I get the impression they had quite a good scour of their records to confirm that the fault was on the paypal side and not with their systems (and sent me a nice letter explaining this, should I need it for any reason) I just wish there were several different companies doing what paypal do, so that I could pick one of the others who were hopefully a little better... Re. EBay, I like to at least try to keep my stuff out of the hands of the gold scrappers, parts resellers etc., which means I've always found it far preferable to sell within interest areas rather than the EBay free-for-all. I've got nothing against auctions as such though - although I do think EBay distorts prices because it often gives a false impression of the rarity of an item (ebay value != market value, in other words). I did sell a few things on ebay once, more for the experience than anything. It was hell. I don't know how people can do it on a regular basis - the cleaning, testing, photography, write-up, shipping calculations, packaging, conversing with [prospective] buyers... ... although I suspect a lot of people don't really bother with numbers 1, 2, 6 and 7, and write-up is limited to foaming at the mouth about how ultra rare the item is ;-) cheers Jules