[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 114, Issue 26

[Bill]

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Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 114, Issue 26

>>  Message: 2
>>  Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:05:35 -0400
>>  From: "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
>>
>>  I'm getting private emails from users that are unable to register to my
forum to take advantage of my
>>  auction, so I'm just gonna give up on trying to do it all myself and
post everything on eBay instead.
>>
>>  Sorry, folks, I tried.

> I tend to wonder, though, if this might not point to something missing,
namely that of a private auction 
> listing site, perhaps even exclusively dedicated to vintage/collector
computing?

In effect that's what I had. No one actually knew about the auction unless I
invited them. The (free) software was Beta, and I'm sure it still had
problems. My old, beat-up computer might have added to the problems. If I
could afford a GOOD software (like vBulletin) I probably wouldn't have had
so many problems.
 
> If there were a site, though - perhaps dedicated to vintage computing -
designed for auctions and/or sales,
> that could allow the owner of the auction invite a list of users (and only
those users) into the auction/sale; 
> make the system somehow limit it to -only- those users (don't know how or
if this is possible - maybe a form 
> of 2-part authentication?)...

I haven't actually had the opportunity to check the vbulletin site to see if
they have a swap/trade or auction plug in for their main forum software. I
think you have to be running a registered copy of vbulletin before you can
search their site.

> The auction could be open to all vintage/collectors - or only a subset
(CoCo, or Atari, or Altair) - depending
> on what/how the seller wants it...

> Just a thought.
> Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona