EBAY Alternatives, was Re: eBay Monkey Business

Marvin Johnston wrote: I suspect he's rather busy - he always seems to have a million things on the go at once... My list is something like: This mailing list Various manufacturer-specific vintage mailing lists Various manufacturer-specific vintage newsgroups Local (regional) newsgroups uk.comp.vintage newsgroup (is there a US equivalent?) Freecycle Various computer/technology museums Simple word-of-mouth I'll add the VCM to that once it's back up (and now that I'm in the US - I don't think it was ever particularly effective in other countries) ... it's surprising how effective the latter is when you're "known" as a collector of xyz's systems, both for acquiring and getting rid of hardware/software/docs. I really don't like ebay. The selling experience is just too time-consuming (to do right, anyway - i.e. proper testing / research / photography / shipping). I've never bought anything on there because I'm yet to see anything that I wanted badly enough to justify the over-inflated prices (that may change now that I'm stuck in the middle of a vintage computing black hole :-) cheers Jules