Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:31:52 +0200, Robert Hedan  
<robert.hedan@...> wrote:

> That's 'cause some people live in the middle of nowhere and have no
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> alternative source.
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> There are still deals on EBay, you just have to be lucky and keep an eye
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> out.  It took me a while, but I got Visual Basic 6 at an excellent price.
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> You just have to be patient, something that just kills me.
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> Robert


That's true, but in general the prices here have gone up.
When i started with ebay not many even knew about it, now everybody buys  
there, that has driven prices up.

Also, the ebay market here (Austria and Germany) is much smaller than  
ebay.com so things are much rarer, and shipping makes import impossible in  
many cases, or the seller doesn't deal internationally, or the items were  
just never sold in significant numbers outside europe, like ersa soldering  
tips, so they don't come up on ebay.com anyway.

One can still get OK deals, after all i won't buy it if it isn't a ok  
deal, but a really great deal (something that is worth several hundred eur  
for 1eur, or at least something for 10% shop price or less) i haven't had  
for quite a while, and many more things i look at reach quite unreasonable  
prices often 10 times more than i had bought an identical item a few years  
ago and now want another. Also, i often want quite rare things, that maybe  
come up two or three times a year, if that. Many people are just not  
prepared to let something like that get away - well i am not prepared to  
pay unreasonable prices. I would expect VB6 to be fairly frequently coming  
up so that you can stand back and wait for a great deal.

ST