Vintage Computer Festival declared on Monday 27 October 2003 09:23 pm: Yeah, I know what you mean, it annoys me when people send me information about things I'm interested in... perhaps I just have a lower level of this than you do. I'm sorry if I offended you, Sellam, but this looked like a decent person trying to sell something, the start bid is about 1 Pound. There are people on this list that don't have the time or energy to watch eBay (on which there *are* good deals to be had at times) and I figured I'd let people know that this was out there. So, do you also 'hate the morons that spam you' to offer you something for your collection, or just the ones that have the items up for public sale? (I understand you have "some adversions" to eBay, but it DOES help some people.... me, for instance.) -- Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/

that sucks. it only searchs for full word matches and literal matches. I think that items that are rare (that is subjective) should be posted here, especially if in the poster's opinion, the rest of the list may not find it. Witness a friend getting an 129 keypunch recently on an auction because it was an "ibm machine for cards" or such idiocy. Did you guys spot it and not post it here? Would you have bid it up a bit over the $50 we have to pay for it? I doubt that such a find would be posted before the fact, but is interesting to see what is on the market, how much it is selling for, and to get ideas as to what to "search" for when looking the the mess that Ebay calls descriptions. I see the messages for these being maybe 1 out of 20 or even 1 out of 50 on this list, and are easily skipped if you are not interested. And I don't recall anyone putting up a junk one when they posted something, unless it was previously offered to the list to make an offer. Jim

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, jim wrote: Or use the Vintage Computer Marketplace since it's superior to eBay in too many ways to mention and is also tailored specifically for computer collectors. Spread the word. Tell all the people you buy vintage stuff from on eBay to use the VCM instead. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]