[TR] Ebay vs. mail order TR part prices

[Don Hiscock]

eBay really wants to be Amazon.  That's at the heart of a lot of their
recent changes to "simplify" shipping to bidders -- er... "buyers" in new
eBay-speak.  They're trying more and more to become a storefront where
people put stuff in a cart and buy it.  They've also gotten what many of us
feel to be quite greedy in fees -- like on shipping.

This might be the future eBay, but for those of us who remember the "old"
'Bay, it really seems to have lost something.  We bidders -- and even
sellers in the traditional sense -- don't seem to factor into eBay's future
plans.  I'm reminded of Darrell Royal's "dance with the one that brung you"
line.  eBay forgets that at its peril, IMO.

Don



On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dave Connitt <dconnitt at fuse.net> wrote:

> First of all, Merry Christmas everyone!
> I was just scanning through the TR4A section of Ebay this morning after
> looking at the TR2 racer for 48,000 pounds.. Yikes!!
> It's been awhile since I looked through the TR4A items on Ebay  and was
> really
> suprised at the prices. I can remember a year or two ago, you could get
> some
> really good deals on parts but now, I really don't see the advantage of
> buying
> replacement parts on Ebay. Maybe on NOS for good useable parts stripped
> from
> cars but not anything that  I could buy from Moss or TRF. Kind of
> dissapointing..
> Dave Connitt
> '67 TR4A IRS
> http://home.fuse.net/davestr4a
>
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