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I just put a few things up on eBay.

IBM PC Convertible model 5140, partially working: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253077193816
IBM PC Convertible Hardware Maintenance Manual: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253077207074
IBM TTech Reference Options and Adapters, Vol. 3: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253077216561
IBM Logo Educational Software Version 1.0: http://www.ebay.com/itm/263123183081
CP/M Manual Set from 1978: http://www.ebay.com/itm/263127207166
Book: TRS-80 Model 100, A USer Guide: http://www.ebay.com/itm/263127215881
Personal Computing Magazine November 1986, featuring the Compaq Deskpro 386: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253077143572

I will be putting more for sale both on here and eBay. If there is anything you are looking for, please ask.

Could someone let me know if they are still hiding some descriptions behind a link like they were doing recently? I see the full descriptions now but I heard that they were doing this to some users and not others.
 
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Your descriptions look full to me, and I'm not sure why. Every other eBay listing I've seen recently has them very much hidden.

If it's not too much trouble, it would be very helpful if you'd put a short description next to (or as alternate text for) your links. Some of us are on limited data plans, so looking up an entire eBay link just to see what it is can be inconvenient. (I see you are doing this in your last two posts, thank you.)
 
KC9UDX said:
Every other eBay listing I've seen recently has them very much hidden.
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This has been discussed on the ebay seller boards and is the cause of some concern. It appears that ebay is misidentifying desktop browsers as mobile devices. That or it's just random - nobody knows and ebay won't say. Whenever you ask them about an obvious fault, the reply is "It's functioning as designed." Nobody seems to make the leap to "Why did you design it to be a piece of crap?"

People are getting very pissed off with ebay's third world programmers making random changes to the production environment every day. It's like a Tom Waits song over there - "No one speaks English and everything's broken..."
 
roberttx said:
This has been discussed on the ebay seller boards and is the cause of some concern. It appears that ebay is misidentifying desktop browsers as mobile devices. That or it's just random - nobody knows and ebay won't say. Whenever you ask them about an obvious fault, the reply is "It's functioning as designed." Nobody seems to make the leap to "Why did you design it to be a piece of crap?"

People are getting very pissed off with ebay's third world programmers making random changes to the production environment every day. It's like a Tom Waits song over there - "No one speaks English and everything's broken..."
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When you think about it, what is, if anything, the competition to eBay?
 
Stone said:
Now that's a real gem! :)
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It sure is, as the outfit appears to be run by people who have no idea what it's like to actually use their damn site!

At work, we deployed Sixbit for the first time today. Once we figure out how to use it properly, it will let us avoid using ebay's tools. Unlike the idiots in San Jose, nobody else thinks that what is best in life is staring at a circle going round and round for ages.

But, later, it will let us migrate to other platforms, via CSV export, including our own webstore (platform TBD). I'm not confident in ebay's survival, the way things are going. Given the daily screw ups, that they almost always sweep under the rug, it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before somebody makes a mistake that drops all the tables. And then where will they be?
 
KC9UDX said:
In eBays's eyes, sears.com, walmart.com, amazon.com, etc.
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I heard that they may have been doing it for new sellers, and I did first notice it on a new account I set up for a non-profit that I am running. Some people were saying that they were trying to drive out the small casual sellers (like most of us) to make it more like a regular retailer. I also heard that they were getting a lot more SNAD (significantly not as described) reports, along the SNAD fees paid to ebay, since buyers were missing the full descriptions.
 
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