I agree 100% here. I personally did NOT like the way DRMO was set up. I
am well over 100 miles from the nearest base, and even more for ones of
any significant size with lots that would interest me. Therefore, going
down to see about something in person was absolutely not an option. I
also didn't have time to learn the ins and outs of how their online
system worked (or didn't in my opinion). I think DRMO was good for the
people that were already familiar with how it worked, not so good for
people in my position.
On the other hand, the way eBay is set up works for me just dandy. If GL
could take what works from that and apply it to what worked with DRMO,
then I think we could have something here that would be MUCH better than
anything that came before it.
Having GL or DRMO selling off used military stuff makes no difference to
me in THEORY. In theory I think GL holds out promise for being something
much better than DRMO. Obviously this is not the case today, January 24,
2001. But I will wait and see how things go over the coming months.
Steve
> Why not have a digital picture of each item, or lot (just a common sense
>shot showing what it is) then a brief description of the item (better than
>the current ones) NSN, and location of item in an ebay type environment with
>a database that is searchable by location, item category, or description,
>this would seem to be easy enough done, the programming end of it is not
>that hard and I know that people create ebay listings who can barely read,
>so GL should be able to have one person responsible for each site that could
>populate the actions. It seems that all the surplus that GL has would be
>easily sold in this manner. You know how it is on ebay you could list a dog
>turd on there and some fool would buy it. I know there are probably problems
>with this idea (it would be online only for one) but it surely would be
>better than the current system. Just my 2 cents worth.
>
>Flame away,
>
>G.R.Baker
>MVPA 23220
>M114A1 (and Various other M series)
>http://tired-iron.mounet.com
>Kingsport, TN
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>Behalf Of J. Forster
>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 11:44 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [MV] Government Liquidation (longish)
>
>
> DDoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
>
>I think the suggestion that hobbyists inspect and catalog the property is an
>outstanding one...I volunteer to take care of nearby Ft. Campbell.
>
>
>IMO, this is full of problems and totally unworkable. What is to prevent
>someone
>from describing a vehicle as total junk, and quietly tellng a buddy it's NIB
>si
>it goes at a fire sale price? Absolutely nothing. If this is done on a
>personal
>basis (Hey Fred, please checkout this item for me since it's near you),
>that's OK
>and a good way to screen things, but having hobbyists do official screening
>and
>cataloging is improper as far as I am concerned.
>
>Furthermore, there are problems with the standards the screeners might
>employ.
>One guy might well classify a vehicle with a bad radiator hose as junk,
>whereas
>another screener might only consider a vehicle as junk if it had taken a
>direct
>hit from a Hellfire.
>
>Just my $.02. Flame away. I have a delete key.
>
>-John
>
>
>
>
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