MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Vampire (1983) PCB

> When this kind of thing comes up the absolute worst thing anybody can do is start splashing it over all sorts of forums. It attracts entirely the wrong attention.

The original posting on other forum might have been used to attract someone willing to pay an exorbitant price….that is if the original poster on other forum recently joined that forum. I don’t fault anyone here, but it would have been more ideal if the original post started here and then in past Smit might delete original post and messaged original poster to find out what was being presented and maybe take things from there. It’s a bummer that the original poster didn’t start the post here but jumpstarted started the old thread on the other forum elsewhere.

Going by what I vaguely recall on old MAME.net forum era…maybe 2002 or 2003, someone was linking auctions of some rare pcbs at the time and then the pcb auctions from some same seller were all sold to probably some collector. The person that was doing the links to MAME.net forum was flamed by one of the former MAMEdevs iirc accusing that poster of being the seller who had no interest other than to sell to someone willing to buy the bulk of pcbs in a supposed 4 figure range. There were probably 5 rare pcbs along with a bulk of other non tested pcbs. The thread was eventually deleted…likely by Gridle. There might have been a couple times where same stunt would be attempted on MW forums in the past and were deleted in case person doing the linking had just joined MW. Twisty was good at detecting stunts like that and also keeping spam from overwhelming the forums here.

> I've had to ban people on my YouTube channel for spamming similar to it in the past.

Some Youtube posters are probably wanting to help, but aren’t sure who to get in contact with. And that’s where something could be set so folks know who to reach. Some of the YouTube posters probably don’t know which website forums to try and message someone in case some item up for sale might be a rare wanted item.

> This is why whenever I'm buying anything I tend to keep it very quiet.

The lesson learned by folks over the years. dwidel had best quote way back in the early days: “ Collectors will spot a rare item for sale long before the rest of the public knows what the item is for sale.” One of the good quotes from the Pacman pcb hardware experts.

> Instead, a handful of people who you know might handle things should be made aware of it, and things taken from there.

Which was why Smit started the Dumping Union and same with Mr. Goodwraith with Dumping Project was a thing in post 2000 years.