Bargains on ebay?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Elcaset completely passed me by until I went to mr cawleys house and saw a stack of players and tapes ... I still don't know what it really is?

[Alex_UK]

Elcaset completely passed me by until I went to mr cawleys house and saw a stack of players and tapes ... I still don't know what it really is?

I'm not the best person to explain, here's a wiki article - but who cares when a deck looks that cool! I suspect the old Beta/VHS comparison is not far off the mark, though - technically superior to Compact Cassette but a total flop with buyers and dead before it was really born...

[Rare Bird]

Loverly pair of Lentek 'S5' Speakers presently running..I have to resist these things

[DSJR]

Elcaset was wonderful. A tragedy it didn't succeed. At best, it could beat domestic high-speed reel to reel, if not pro machines..

[Alex_UK]

Anyone in the market for a minty mint SP10 mk II?

Or a B.I.N. SL-1210 Mk11 which should be pristine if it has really only been used twice at just £200 - be quick!

[MartinT]

Anyone in the market for a minty mint SP10 mk II?

I put in a punt for the SP10 although I suspect it will go for megabucks.

[Alex_UK]

I see the SP-10 has already been ended - presumably someone has made an offer that couldn't be refused... (This dispels the theory expressed that an auction can't be ended early if there is a bid on it - and the same has happened to me a few times since Mark (I think) suggested it wasn't allowed.)

[MartinT]

Annoying isn't it? I thought you could not end an auction once bids have been placed

[Alex_UK]

It was Mark (Reid Malenfant) that suggested this:

In the case of this auction there is something you could have done to prevent this from happening If only you'd placed a bid on the items As long as there is no mention on the listing that the items can be removed as they are on sale elsewhere you are laughing. The reason being is that the seller can't simply remove them from sale once a bid is placed. Just like you are in a binding agreement to pay for what you win, the seller is in a binding agreement to supply what they are selling (as far as i know).

Now the only way they could stop the auction is say that whatever is was that's being sold happens to now be not working & ebay will contact you & ask if you agree to the sale being made null & void. You must agree though that there is not a lot of likelyhood that all the cassette decks would pack up simultaneously (unless a car fell on them ) so you could refuse to allow the sale to be cancelled & still bag the goods

I may be wrong about the above but by law i think it's probably correct.

I know this process exists as i won an auction for a pair of Krell KAS 2 monoblocks, went to pick them up & gave them a quick test & was gutted to discover (much like the owner) that one was faulty Had to go through this rigmarole on ebay to both agree to cancel the auction, which we both did...

In which case, as the SP-10 seller doesn't say anything in the auction about ending it early, there may be a case for flouting ebay rules, but at the end of the day, what will it achieve?

[Alex_UK]

(The seller would just say it stopped working or something, anyway. Whoever bought it is unlikely to complain as they walk away with a bargain, and so it continues... )