Graywolf mused: > > Thanks too all for the search suggestions. > > I can tell you ebay is taking over the web. For instance a search for > "kodacraft" (the developing tank with the plastic aprons) gets 188 hits. Add > "-ebay" and it drops to 40. Add "-auction" as well and it drops to 25. That > is > 87% of the hits are ebay related. Worse because some of the remainders are > the > webpages ebay auctions refer to. Even if you are looking to buy something > from > ebay 90%+ of those references are to out of date auctions.
And eBay has been taken over by bottom-feeding dealers, trying to sell new merchandise at buy-it-now prices no better than can be found from reputable on-line merchants. Those aren't really "auctions" - they have a reserve price the same as the buy-it-now price, and effectively unlimited items available for sale. > BTW, didn't ebay buy out google a couple of years back? No. Try using the web to search for something like an out-of-print CD sometime, especially one that was originally a low-volume small-market release. Almost every link you find will turn out, after two or three clicks, to be a link to an Amazon Storefront (quite often the same storefront will show up in many different guises, with the same content wrapped in different skins). They all show the product in their list of available titles, and you only find it's out of stock, special order after another couple of clicks. I discovered this, the hard way, when trying to get hold of a copy of Broceliande's "The Starlit Jewel" - less than 2000 copies were made.
