Ebay is a good place to buy and sell. However if you are buying take a
few precautions.
Always use a credit card and PayPal together with Ebay's own protection
you stand a chance if there are problems.
Never never buy anything because its cheap or anything you are not
exactly sure what it is.
If its electronic collect if you can and see it run if thats possible.
Look for garage sale type of listings were there's a mix of items.
Its often the case tha you get a sale where people have passed on and
the house is being cleared.
Never buy something you want, always buy something you need.
Always set an upper limit on price and stick to it.
Rod
On 30/04/2015 09:51, Dave G4UGM wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Stein
Sent: 30 April 2015 02:44
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Where's a good place to list stuff?
I realize that this list isn't really for listing items for sale or giving stuff away
so
I hope you'll excuse this, but other than eBay and the VCF forum &
marketplace, where's a good place to list items like the ones below to see if
there's any interest?
There is also the MARCH list, and also often specific lists for special equipment,
but it seems many of the other sites are laced with scammers. I recently posted a
"wanted" on the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group "BARTG" asking
about Creed parts and had some scammer from New Jersey offering to sell me them. It was
only as I knew that shipping from the USA would be expensive I googled the e-mail address
only to find the same guy spends his life trawling sites for "wanted" adds and
offers to sell you anything old and rare, including computer, radio auto and motor cycle
parts. These days its simple enough to ask for a photo of the part. You can then usually
use google image search to see which web site he stole it from...
A friend also tried to sell a piano on GumTree. He has had nothing but sob stories of
folks wanted him to pay to ship it to themselves.
He also tried LOOT (I don't think you have it in the US) with similar results.
Even AutoTrader(UK) seems tainted. I recently googled one vendor who seemed to have less
expensive motorbikes, again to find several folks with tails of scams over the years.
So I guess the old adage "Buyer Beware" is still true, and E-Bay seems a well
regulated market place.
Sharp PC-5000 bubble memory portable w/printer
HP 45711B Portable Plus, c/w 2 x 9114 HPIL Disk drives and a 2225B printer.
HP 18179A protocol analyzer
HP sheet plotter (IEEE/GPIB); (can't get at it to look up the number right now)
Pity its in the US....
and the piece de resistance:
An HP fetal monitor (without probes) for the budding pediatrician among you.
m
Dave
G4UGM