[Coco] Friday Ebay Madness...

[Mark McDougall]

On 4/05/2012 6:47 PM, Rogelio Perea wrote:

> Saw also a Deluxe RS232 and a J&M disk controller from an Australian vendor
> set for buy now at AU$99.00. Plus the shipping charge.

Saw those myself yesterday and, not knowing much about their rarity or 
otherwise, wondered if those prices were way off the mark...

I have a 'saved search' on eBay for 'Vintage Computers' and in the last week 
or so I've noticed it's gone from a handful of new listings per day, to a 
couple of pages per day. It's a mixture of poorly categorised items (eg. 
games for consoles), absolute rubbish (advertising pamphlets, punched cards, 
centronics cables, 486 motherboards) and an influx of items with silly 
prices (as you pointed out).

I suspect at some point eBay will eventually become almost "unusable" 
without investing some serious (and regular) time and effort into tweaking 
search filters and the like... :(

Regards,

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