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Why can't I find anything interesting on eBay anymore?

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AndyBeez:
This thread reminded me of a Fran Blanche commentary in March 2022


--- Quote ---Ebay Tyrants!

Ebay is just like social media - in the early days it was a free and open place to exchange interesting things...  But now it's a place where people love to display their hoards of precious bounty - with no desire to actually sell any of it.  But hey - they'd sure love for you to be the sucker!!
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DiTBho:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on July 29, 2023, 08:28:06 pm ---with no desire to actually sell any of it.  But hey - they'd sure love for you to be the sucker!!

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She reminds me of a very cold and snowy December 24th, on Christmas Eve, I was sitting in a pub chatting with a guy on eBay, and I invited him over for a drink. He was not far away from the airport area, which is directly linked to central london. So I met him in person, then I had to add a Microsoft Surface laptop in its prestigious Tucano bag, the equipment I carried with me, for an already very high price to have in exchange the second-hand Apple PowerBook-G3 modded with an original Dyna PPC7410@500Mhz accelerator and 1Gbyte of ram that was listing on eBay.

Good deal for the person I had across the table. He had said "No way, I'm not willing to sell the G3 powerbook I have for sale on eBay", which sounded like contradiction", so I asked "why did you list it?" and he replied something like "it's so insane amount that no one will ever want to make an offer, but it's good for me because I can list it for free, to attract people to visit my shop"

As he did with me, since we formally met in a pub to buy other items.
But then he accepted.


Talking about vintage bicycle, there are people who do the same with the Campagnolo derailleurs of the Rally G3 series (80s): they put them up for sale for 900 UKP!!!, an insane amount, so insane that no one will ever want to make an offer.

But some do it to attract attention, and to make people visit their shop, where they actually have things to sell.
(in fact the last time I bought a bag for the wheels of the racing bike, 20 UKP)

rsjsouza:
In my experience as a user of eBay US is that it is still a good place to find the occasional oddball and "out-of-print" equipment, but the really unconventional stuff is found in various closed special interest groups on facebook. Just today I got some people selling an ancient Motorola evaluation board and a Commodore CBM - priced accordingly, though.

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 30, 2023, 02:18:26 am ---special interest groups on facebook

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I never thought about Facebook as "occasional marketplace", very interesting


--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 30, 2023, 02:18:26 am ---Just today I got some people selling an ancient Motorola evaluation board

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m68k? 68xx? Coldire? PPC? m88k? DSP56xxx?

rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: DiTBho on July 30, 2023, 09:51:48 am ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 30, 2023, 02:18:26 am ---special interest groups on facebook

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I never thought about Facebook as "occasional marketplace", very interesting


--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 30, 2023, 02:18:26 am ---Just today I got some people selling an ancient Motorola evaluation board

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m68k? 68xx? Coldire? PPC? m88k? DSP56xxx?

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The board was a 6802 processor: Motorola Mek6802D5 Micro Computer - as-is and priced quite high IMO ($265, although perhaps in CAD not USD). Just like with anything in this platform, I am pretty sure it is negotiable but warranty is non-existent.

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