Re: [SWCollect] An interesting feature on auctions

2003-07-01 Thread Jim Leonard
Dan Chisarick wrote: And just to beat on it a little more from the flip side... would you enjoy collecting as much if you had unlimited resources with which to do so? Hell yes!! I've stopped collecting entirely (may even be selling soon) because of financial issues :-( Thank god I

Re: [SWCollect] An interesting feature on auctions

2003-07-01 Thread Jim Leonard
Origin Museum wrote: So, getting a deal is not what it's about, for me, anyway. I'm with you. Long-time members of this list may remember my diatribe about Why doesn't everyone just bid their absolute max and walk away? thread (which was pleasantly and humorously disproven by Chris Forman

Re: [SWCollect] RobotWar

2003-07-01 Thread Jim Leonard
Lee K. Seitz wrote: Found the manual (but no disk) for RobotWar by Muse Software for the Apple II today. I wasn't familiar with it, but I saw similar programs back in the early '90s (P-Robots (as in Pascal) and C-Robots). Was this the original game of this genre that gave rise to all the rest?

Re: [SWCollect] Vendio/Assist services? (and CGExpo)

2003-07-01 Thread Jim Leonard
So nobody is using services like this? No opinions at all? Jim Leonard wrote: I just won an auction where the seller was using Vendio services, and I have to say it was an extremely slick end-user experience for payment. Multiple payment types were handled automatically by Vendio (including

Re: [SWCollect] Vendio/Assist services? (and CGExpo)

2003-07-01 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard stated: So nobody is using services like this? No opinions at all? My auctions are so infrequent I gave up looking into software or services to assist me. No doubt I'd be more productive and have auctions more regularly if I did use something. -- Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]