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Many of you probably haven’t heard of eBid<\/a> but it is an eBay<\/a> alternative. Reality is that eBay has so<\/em> many scammers and for two decades plus they have adamantly refused to allow users the ability to blacklist shit vendors from their search results. Adding insult to injury it really has become a front end for Amazon. Admit it. You have ordered stuff from eBay believing<\/em> you were not doing business with Amazon only to have it show up in an Amazon box with an Amazon shipping label. Rather than allowing you to create your own shit vendor list to be used as a filter in the results shown, eBay makes you crawl naked across broken glass to open a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it was “America’s Garage Sale” eBay served a purpose. Now that it is mostly a front for Amazon it serves none. Yes, other “garage sale” sites have sprung up. Craigslist<\/a> kind of worked for a while. Mostly nobody looks at it now. Those who do look want a $10K item given to them for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OfferUp<\/a> is a joke! This is a shining example of why you don’t use Agile and you never let Script-Kiddies develop anything. You can’t sell anything via the Web site. You have to have an iMbecile phone and use “the app” to list anything. Notice how you can purchase<\/strong><\/em> via the Web site though! This is a glaring design failure and it has existed for many years. I believe it has existed since the site was known as LetGo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to Make Room in the Office<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Those of you who read this blog know I’ve been in IT for roughly four decades now. I have built up machines for various projects and kept most of them around for too long. Always tough to know when to get rid of something you once used to work on a medical device with. Those things can be out in the market for 10+ years before any changes happen. I still see contracts for someone to work on a medical device using OS\/2 every few years. Full 510K filings are expensive. Minor enhancement filings less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Items on eBid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n