Ebay horror ...

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Jun 12 19:08:05 2001

At 11:56 AM 6/12/01 -0700, Don wrote:


>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, joe wrote:
>
> > At 08:55 AM 6/12/01 -0500, John wrote:
> > >At 09:25 AM 6/12/01 -0400, Craig Smith wrote:
> > > > FINALLY! A voice of reason in this seemingly endless debate.
> > > Well said
> > > >Joe. If you add up the time spend digging stuff out of musty basements
> > > >and barns, gas and wear & tear on vehicles driving hundreds of miles and
> > > >time cleaning, testing, etc .... what little return you receive
> > > >[even at eBay {gasp!} prices] is well deserved.
> > >
> > >Amen. If anyone is at all serious about making money to
> > >pay for their time, I can't think of many substances you
> > >can resell on eBay that would make it worthwhile. On the
> > >other hand, it might be a good way to dispose of stuff
> > >that comes along while you're doing something else.
> >
> >
> > Exactly! I doubt anyone on this list makes a living by selling on
> > E-bay. I do it to find homes for some of the more interesting stuff that I
> > find but can't keep and to help pay the expenses of looking for the
> > stuff. Even then I doubt that what I make from E-bay justifies the time
> > and effort of listing, packing and shipping the stuff.
>
>Well, except for the fact that it is kind of fun and satisfying. Isn't
>it, Joe?


    Yeap, you sure meet a lot of interesting people there. I recently meet
an old time HP salesman that has ^H^H^H, er, had, a lot of HP stuff to
sell. Let's just say that I helped him out :-) I now have a collection of
HP Journals going all the way back to 1955. One of the other folks that I
meet there tunred out to be one of the original designers of the HP
9825. I spent weeks picking his brains!

     Joe

> - don
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