Howdy Marvin! LTNS I agree with you completely about SellYourItem.com, I know from past experience that the support will look seriously at opening up cat's for the serious seller. I have had several opened up by them for classic mauals, and electronics, etc.. If those reading this thread would take a look at the site, it may just work out for the list. Bill Marvin Johnston wrote: > I think this is a great idea, but I'm not sure we need to re-invent the > wheel here. There are existing auction sites that will do what needs to > be done. SYI, for example, has been mentioned here in the past (and I am > taking a look at them again getting ready to list some stuff.) And if we > approach such a site as a group of interested people, they are more > likely to incorporate things we would like to see. > > >From my perspective, there are two issues. 1) wanting to get the most > money out of something, and 2) wanting to get it to a collector/user ... > they are not necessarily exclusive :). There is probably not much doubt > that ebay is the place that will usually bring in the most money. But > the pricing (and philosophy) there does drive some collectors away. > > Things I would like to see in a ClassicCmp auction site: > > links/descriptions of equipment that could be incorporated in listings > a mechanism to allow trades of equipment > a way of qualifying buyers and sellers before they list/bid/trade. > > And the list could go on, but this is a start. > > Jeffrey Sharp wrote: > > > > Forgive me if this has already been discussed today; I don't have time at > > the moment to scan the entire thread. > > > > With this latest round of discussion about eBay, the thought crossed my mind > > that maybe we need our own WWW auction site. It would only contain classic > > computers and related items, and it could be designed in such a way that > > would please a large number of list members and colleagues, including those > > who avoid eBay. Could I hear some opinions on this, please? > > > > My WWW-related programming skills -- not my traditional forte -- have > > seriously improved since the last time we discussed ideas for the CC site. > > In fact, I've been doing it for money at my workplace for the last few > > weeks. For several months now, I've been increasingly interested in > > implementing some of the ideas I've had for ClassicCmp improvements, and if > > people think it is a good idea, an auction subsite would make for a very > > interesting project. Don't worry; there are no weblogs up my sleeve. :-) > > > > -- > > Jeffrey Sharp

The VW bus community does this on their website at: <http://www.type2.com> Of course, it would require someone willing to spend the time to administer it.

My vote is of course to proceed with this idea, any thoughts?

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I had brought a similar request to Jeff Sharp via a telephone call a while back for implementation. I thought it was a "done deal". My plan was to not create an "auction site" persay, because that is a rather huge task, and because - well, there IS ebay. So instead, I had asked him to create an "available" site. It would only be open to list members (password protected). On the site they could list all their spare inventory, and/or equipment they were willing to trade. That way, people could perhaps find things they were looking for more easily from other listmembers, and work their own deals (cash or trade), without going through ebay.