posted on June 15, 2001 01:17:00 PM
I sell in the electronics category quite a bit and throw some stuff in Audio:Vintage a lot.
It was a handy category for me but they've changed it--again.
Now you get Audio:Vintage:8-Track tape decks and Audio:Vintage:Reel to Reel and Audio:Vintage:General.
Huh? Crappy old 8-track tape decks warrant their own category? But the stuff I sell has to go in a general category because they can't figure out what's collectible. They're just fiddling for fiddling's sake.
posted on June 15, 2001 02:19:08 PM
ebay has no idea how to make proper categories. It becomes clear that they hire high school drop outs and tell them to keep busy.
"What shall I do?"
"I dunno, make some new categories."
posted on June 15, 2001 02:37:28 PM
Yeah. I think I'll get one of those noisy, junky things where you can hear the hiss and mechanicals working along with the music, plus that endearing "ker-plunk" between tracks. Heck, some of those 8-track tapes had the ker-plunk in the middle of the song! You gotta love that engineering.
There's a reason those 8 tracks went out 20 years ago. I do see they bring $5 and up on ebay though.
Sometimes you're the dog and sometimes you're the hydrant.
