Nope. Try amibay (it sucks), vintage computer forms. Or any other site with a classified adds spot.

I have however seen alot of people pit their amibay forsale/wanted posts in their sig. But Id think ebay is a different thing. Even given things away is seen as a taboo here.

I know it's tempting to do business here, looking at the prospects of potential buyers and the target market here.

But it has always been a policy not to allow any sort of trading here. I think Qbix (Admin) has brought it up many times, and as such, we should maintain it that way.

EBay is still the best place for selling (unless people are worried about the commission from the sales there).

Advertising one's own eBay listing here looks like, forgive me, prospecting.

Otherwise using PM and using signature and letting know to contact by PM in the signature will be more appropriate.

As inappropriate as that photo is, I find it rather funny is tastefully used.

I *think* adding to liability issues, it's nice to see Vogons to remain a discussion forum rather than people posting their stuff for sale.

Dominus wrote:

I *think* adding to liability issues, it's nice to see Vogons to remain a discussion forum rather than people posting their stuff for sale.

I agree strongly. Adding a market place just tends to make things messy. Its attracts scammers and spammers, can make for some rather heated fights between user and so on.

It would be nice if you had a dedicated giveaway spot. You know where users can give away stuff that have laying around at no cost to the receiver. But even that can go down hill fast and probably be avoided.

that's sad. I understand that allowing sale threads would spam that forum.
but what about ONE thread where everyone could post his/her links to personal ebay auctions or craigslist or whatever? that shouldn't mess up the board and the selling would happen outside the forum so no legal issues for the board operators here.

I mean it is really a tragedy that so much people here have so much wonderful hardware which 1) would end up in some gold recycler's hands or won't sell at all and end in the dumpster eventually.
ebay is just overloaded, flooded and freakin expensive. but it is the only international platform I know. personally, I don't ever look for retro hardware there, also because of scam. I mean, I really hate ebay. it has such a great potential and they are simply too stupid to make a great platform out of it. just look at parts of the website where the pages look like if they're from the 90ies (I guess they ARE from the 90ies).
amibay is not mainly for PC hardware and also I'm not actively participating there

this community is just great and I'd love to make some fellas happy with my hardware.

however, I guess this isn't gonna happen...