Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed May 2 11:23:51 2001

On Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 11:46 AM, Mike Ford wrote:
> Having survived a 4 hour live auction yesterday, I have to say eBay is a
> marvel of sensibility. On eBay you look over the item, maybe send a few
> emails with questions, and you make your bid, either via the eBay proxy
> bidding system, or via some snipe engine, and your done. Go away, work
> or
> play, the results can be expected to be fairly logical. With a live
> auction
> the situation is constantly changing, often to extremes that truely
> suck. I
> was planning on maybe $50 bid for a batch of cables, but when that item
> comes up it gets lotted with 32 large broken monitors, which must be
> removed, which I can't practically do. Bid goes for $25.

        The lack of needing to buy everything in lots to get the one item
you want and the long viewing window is one thing I like about eBay
auctions. I myself have recently resorted to using one of the sniping
services so I don't actually have to remember to log on in time for a
last moment bid. I never got into the live auction scene because of the
need a lot of times to buy stuff I didn't want in order to get the thing
I did.

        Jeff
Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 11:23:51 BST