Martin P
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2004
I did notice some time ago that I really only go to EBay anymore to buy new stuff from rather specialized dealers.
The old days of finding cool stuff from private persons seem over.
But last week I was actually perusing through EBay and came across a vendor offering a complete PC2 Dialog control (the unit that sits in the cabinet) for 125€.
Considering that this is the later version of the 90 series this is rather cheap.
I checked and the buy-now listing had been up for 3 months with no-one buying it!
OK, it did not say Deckel, but only Grundig control unit, but still.
If this would have been on "Kleinanzeigen" (correctly "Ebay Kleinanzeigen"), this would have been gone quickly I think.
No-one looks at Ebay anymore.
Ebay has just sold "Kleinanzeigen" to the guys of dutch Marktplaats. They will first loose the "EBay" in the name completely inside of an agreed to time frame.
I am sure they will then start ruining it. They already said they will loose the phone number that a vendor can put in. I fear it will go the Ebay way of incrementally making it a sterile vendor platform.
Kleinanzeigen is currently the most clicked website in Germany! I do not know why Germans take to these website so well, while other countries do not at all.
Anyway, I had a score, which has not happend in a while on that site.
Had a picture here, but wont upload.https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/media/albums/deckel.1945/
The old days of finding cool stuff from private persons seem over.
But last week I was actually perusing through EBay and came across a vendor offering a complete PC2 Dialog control (the unit that sits in the cabinet) for 125€.
Considering that this is the later version of the 90 series this is rather cheap.
I checked and the buy-now listing had been up for 3 months with no-one buying it!
OK, it did not say Deckel, but only Grundig control unit, but still.
If this would have been on "Kleinanzeigen" (correctly "Ebay Kleinanzeigen"), this would have been gone quickly I think.
No-one looks at Ebay anymore.
Ebay has just sold "Kleinanzeigen" to the guys of dutch Marktplaats. They will first loose the "EBay" in the name completely inside of an agreed to time frame.
I am sure they will then start ruining it. They already said they will loose the phone number that a vendor can put in. I fear it will go the Ebay way of incrementally making it a sterile vendor platform.
Kleinanzeigen is currently the most clicked website in Germany! I do not know why Germans take to these website so well, while other countries do not at all.
Anyway, I had a score, which has not happend in a while on that site.
Had a picture here, but wont upload.https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/media/albums/deckel.1945/
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