New subject: Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

26 Oct 1998

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Subject: Re: ebay
Author:  classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date:    10/26/98 3:54 PM

 On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Hans Franke wrote:

...
  > 1.  Bid more than anybody else through proxy
bidding.  This way when 
 >     somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max)  
automatically
...
  >     when someone else bids.  If you want it bad
enough, you can get it, but

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       it may
cost you. 
 Jep, but to be shure, it has to be high, real high :(  
 As high as $12,000?  Only to have someone bid $12,100?

...
  > 2.  Learn the fine art of sniping.  I live with a
longtime e-bay user (my   wife)
...
  >     who has the distinction of a 0 second snipe -
it came in and was   recognised
...
  >     some fraction of a second before the auction
closed.  She did it   manually
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       too. :) 
There IS sniping software, apparently, too.  
 Just a NO. Maybe I'm stupid and old fashionated, 
 but sniping is just not possible.  
 I stopped using eBay simply for this reason.  The format makes it 
 impossible to carry on a fair bid process and weed out the weenies.

...
  > 3.  My wife assures me that EVERYTHING comes
around again, btw.  Especially

...
       computers.
 She suggests patience.  
 Jep, but this lot was real neat.
 (And the next will be the one with the SC/MPs .. sigh).
 I don't know if this will be around again, so nicly bundled  
...
 >If you look hard enough, you can ALWAYS find
something around you, 
>cheaper, and it won't cost you shipping.  This is of course more true 
>for some people than others (like a poor slob in Alaska trying to 
>collect computers) but I've learned this lesson many times.  Everything 
>I've ever bought off eBay has turned up locally for a fraction of the 
>price. Sometimes only a week later.  Aren't you located in 'Silicon
Valley?' You are located in an unusally 
 fertile area for the old computer devotee. I live in the Washington, 
 D.C. metro area which isn't bad but must pale in comparison to your 
 locale. *sniff*  **sob**  Marty

 An alternate to eBay is needed.

 Sellam                                     Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com

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