[dorkbotsea-blabber] DorkSwap proposal

[Mike Payson]

Why not allow people to sell stuff? I don't see how it would complicate
things, and it would mean a much broader range of things that people might
bring...

On 7/28/07, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote:
>
> A few people have posted for-sale or for-free ads to the dorkbot list
> lately. How do people feel about having some sort of swap-your-junk
> table at a future dorkbot? Or, if it goes well, as a regular feature
> of dorkbot-seattle? I often have random dorkular things I'm not going
> to be using again, but which are either too small or too odd to get
> rid of in other ways. Putting the handful of obsolete-but-unused PICs
> in my junk drawer on eBay would just be silly.
>
> I'd suggest ground rules like:
>     - If someone else doesn't want it, YOU MUST TAKE IT BACK. I don't
> think 911MAC or the Seattle Dorkbot Steering Overlords want to be
> stuck with hauling everybody's unwanted stuff to the dump each month.
>     - All stuff free-to-good-home; selling stuff would get too
> complicated
>     - Maybe some limit on how much you can bring (a box or two), just
> to keep things sane
>
> What do y'all think? Any input from the Secret Masters of Dorkbotsea?
>
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