sellers market - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Mar 1999

At 12:04 PM 3/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
...
 >So someone needs to create another web site that is
the opposite
>of what eBay provides. A site where you can advertise that you're
>looking for an Exidy Sorcerer computer, and woould be willing to
>pay about $15 plus $10 shipping. I suggest you call this new 
Ph sure, and if I (john doe) had an exidy, I would look at your listing,
then head over to eBay and post it with a $15 min. bid.  Then I would send
you an e-mail saying I had one on ebay.

...
 service which protects the buyer and the seller, by
ensuring the funds and
the merchandise as represented are there and by ensuring the parties
complete the transaction to which they're supposedly committed, would be
VERY valuable and would take a BIG bite out of Ebay's share.  That's not an

Sure, they're called Christies, Sotheby's, Butterfield and Butterfield...
(Or did you want to pay an extra $10 to guarantee that $10 sale?)

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