1 Mar
1999
1 Mar
'99
5:59 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, John Foust wrote:
I'd hate to see the list become polluted with
irrelevant postings,
but so far it hasn't been too bad. Someone could always start another
list with filtered eBay postings relevant to classic computers.
If eBay doesn't have agent searches that send daily results to you
by e-mail, it should.
Shucks, I thought we went through all this about 4 weeks ago and a
separate list WAS created just for this very purpose? I must've been
smoking too much dope again I guess to have hallucinated that.
I figure that if it's on eBay, wolves and idiots
will find it regardless.
There's no sense shooting the first messenger, if just over the hill
there are thousands of messengers and potential buyers. It's like
trying to keep a really cool web site "to yourself." It doesn't
make any sense, and it's futile.
That's not true. Many times there will be some item sitting in a back
corner of ebay that nobody but you finds, and you end up getting it
cheaply. Wouldn't it suck if you found that really cool such & such that
you've always wanted on ebay, and its one day left and nobody has bid, so
you place a bid and are all set to win it for $2, then some joker comes
along who, not really interested in it himself, posts it to classiccmp and
now 15 people bid it up to $300.
That's what Doug is talking about. Its a double egded sword really.
But anyway, the point is an alternate discussion group was created for
ebay postings. It annoys me to see them posted here.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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