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Re: Strategies for Buying Test Equipment off Ebay

> (1) I've given up on eBay auctions. If it doesn't have a "buy

it now"

option, I ignore it. > > (2) eBay would be much more fair, and robot-tolerant, if they

extended

any auction with new bids within the last five minutes.

Keep

adding five minutes until everyone's done bidding. > > And to keep it on-topic, I do have a Tektronix 561A that's been > sitting idle for waaay too long... >

is that a joke ? extend it 5 minutes until everyone is done , thats not fair for a buyer it just lines the pocket of sellers by exploiting the gotta have its and the emotional bidders who do not really have a max value in there head

and OP this topic shouild be in misc or equipment not design ? i would have re-directed it but then you would never have seen it.

so is the 561A considered obsolete ?

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robb
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If buyers are willing to pay more, they should have a chance to do so. The current system allows a robo-bidder to outbid you within a split second of the end of auction, giving you no opportunity to rebid. Removing the "last split second" from auctions also discourages robo-bidders, giving the humans a better chance of winning.

Gah, I hope so. It's all tubes and silver solder, and has about a

1MHz bandwidth. Can't even look at video signals with it. I've got a cheap parallel-port DSO that has more range and capabilities.
Reply to
DJ Delorie

Well, it was 40 years ago.

John

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John Larkin

Look for postings that say "AS-IS" or "FOR PARTS ONLY." Many times, the seller puts these expressions in to cover his/her ass. This is true for many of the large surplus junk e-stores.

Usually, they just have so much stuff, they don't even have time to plug it in. Many people are totally against buying like this, but I have gotten some VERY good deals on units that work fine. Sometimes, I am the only bidder and the price I pay is less than the shipping costs.

But be aware, you should pay no more that 20% of the cost of a "good" unit, with a warranty. That way, if it truly is junk, you haven't lost much.

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Wayne P. Muckleroy

if you bed high enought (remember the more you can bet...) the robot will not be able to outbid you... if you bet the actual bed plus $1, you will be outbed !

I saw that the final price for an object is almost always twice the price it was half an hour before the end of the auction...

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Jean-Yves.
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Jean-Yves

Primarily because the price a half hour before the end of the auction is totally meaningless.

No intelligent eBay bidder would bid so early.

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