At 10:35 15-06-2000 -0400, you wrote:
<snip>
>Now, do you understand?
>
>I do agree with you that one can occasionally find bargain on e-bay
>and other auction sites, but it's still npot the same as finding
>things on Usenet or hamfests and haggling over the price.
<snip again>
I would add to this another pet dislike I have for E-bilk (much better
name, BTW). To my eyes, they are in large part (sheer unmitigated greed
makes up the other part) responsible for the decline in quality and
quantity of equipment that used to show up at hamfests and other
electronic-oriented swap meets.
>
>
>--
>R. D. Davis
>rdd_at_perqlogic.com
>http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
>410-744-4900
>
>
>
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Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
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Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 19:59:08 BST