Big changes at eBay

[Fred Jodry]

Hey you cats, the Forums for trading these things
already exist, so we don`t have to dilute
communications by making new ones. However,
trading these things can get rather specific. For
example, if you trade vacuum tubes, whether
you`re in the taking or giving (or selling, etc.),
different groups like Audio recordists, Listeners,
Amateur radioists, and Broadcasters, all have
their own prices and typical sorts of stuff. Their
forums partly overlap. The good news is that
these people to meet and things can be awfully
fun. Next paragraph: Collecting: It`s no wonder
that plenty of us here are hobby collectors of
gold- topped chips and similar as these pretty
things often no longer can find their next
circuit board. Many other things like radio tubes
often have next lives which seem almost infinite
in homemade or repaired equipment especially
if we learn how to keep enough maintenance
skills like properly re- attaching grid caps on
tubes then making our own grid cap clips so the
manufactured ones don`t tear the caps off again
in our children`s times. I don`t know about some
guys, but when I come down the stairs in the
morning, and there are two little eyes looking at
me wanting my attention and needing the world,
that`s when I can set my priorities closest at
hand. A typing computer that works perfectly is
a little help, but a film restoration hobby or a Ham
radio hobby (often more educational than 4 years
of high school or college) or a big set of antique
Forestry books and a gardenning hobby is a
much bigger more lasting gift. In many times in
our lives it`s more important to give than receive,
even when we trip over our indignant fates. Or,
the theme, "The sooner you give it away, the
sooner you get it back". (This one requires a bit
of sobre minded thinking or planning, though).
But hurray for collecting. I`ll see if you guys
e- mail (personal message?) me your asks after
the weekend.

[gshv]

[wepwawet]

I'd like that new forum too:-)
It should be open for everything "older" than the CPU's we're normally talking here.

[JAC]

There are already some pretty good well established forums and groups for certain aspects of older tech.

[wepwawet]

[gshv]

[hugo929]

LOL
There are good serach engines after GOOGLE.

[gshv]

I added new Vintage Electronic Components forum:

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18

This forum is not intended to be a replacement for other (external) forums that deal with vintage components. As I understand, JAC knows a few of those forums, and he's welcome to post links to them in the new forum Fred Jodry - if you want you can post your links in that forum too.

Gennadiy

[CPUShack]

nother random ebay thought.

I usually try not to bid much against CPU world members (they are my pals lol)

Now that all bidders ID's are hidden, I cannot know.

[Chiefish]

I have not bid on stuff because i saw a member from here bidding on it already , but i geuss the days of being able to be nice about it are over

[Qwerty]

Not only that. The prices will rise because of the shill bidding.
The eBay's so called "bid history" and "bidder information" can be easily fooled. No one will ever notice the shill bidding.

Especially our group buys will be endangered. We post our maximal bids openly there.

As you all know there is a information leak in our group buy forum. Apparently some sellers are members of CPU-WORLD and they "adjust" the prices of the items we are interested in. It already happened three or four times in the past few months. Now it will happen much more often.

As JAC said - shilltastic !!!

[wepwawet]

I'm a***e (211)
Same on three different auctions so I guess it will be always the same - besides the feedback count of course.

lol

[debs3759]

Kind of adds weight to the idea that we should have a closed forum for group buy threads, to help avoid the leak we have here.

On one level I think it's great that everything is open to all, but on the other hand, it seems a shame that sellers can so easily use that information to adjust prices or shill-bid us to the maximum they know we will pay.

[Qwerty]

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i'd say