scrap yard inventory

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Jul 19 22:30:52 2001

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Brian Knittel wrote:

> Is there any progress on the stuff-for-sale website, Sellam?

Got bogged down with VCF East preparation. It should be wrapped up a week
or two afterwards.

> I picture a website where you could enter items found in shops as well
> as personal inventories of things we'd part with if asked. Location,
> item, price if known, date spotted, etc; and a way of checking it off:
> "gone", "I bought it", "it blew up", etc. A sort of very narrow
> inventory system for the world's scrap shops and basements.

An interesting idea. It could certainly work. I can try to improvise
something like this as part of the VCF Marketplace site. Then I can try
to charge the various shops whose inventories are being listed a listing
fee :)

> Would this be useful, or would it just make it too easy for dealers to
> vacuum up all the good stuff? Impossible to keep up- to-date, or worth
> the occasional stale entry?

I'm sure there's both good and bad points to this.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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