S3D Re: We're NOT going!!!

[bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>But Hayden, some people just can't afford it. Like me. 
>They may want to support NSA but don't have the cash to
>travel. So I can sympathize with re-sellers who finance the 
>trip with sales. In addition to driving up prices, this 
>is another way the eBay is hurting 3-D.
>
>Harold

Yes - I think it's important to realize that there are various
levels of 3D participation....

There are sellers whom are sufficiently interested in the field
(like Harold) who are subscribed to both photo-3d AND sell-3d.

There are sellers who are sufficiently interested to seek out the
mailing list and are on sell-3d.

There are sellers who have no interest in the field and simply
list views or cameras (for example) on e-bay. From time to time
when something turned up that was interesting and the seller sounded
like they might be interested beyond just moving merchandise, I"ve sent
an invitation to join the list. I've not received a single
response back from any of them that I can recall.

This can be noticed in other products as well. From time to time
I buy Heathkit gear - but again the supply of Hams selling to Hams
is drying up as sellers move to e-bay where prices are typically
much higher (and one can hardly criticize sellers for wanting to
maximize their investment, although in the Ham gear groups there is
perhaps still a bit of a Ham to Ham bond which perhaps is not
present in photo-3d). But as us 'old men' tend to die off, that's
disappearing also.

FWIW

--bob wier (also known as WB5KXH)

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       12:33 PM Friday, June 25, 1999
     Unix/Internet Systems Administrator
    Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT



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