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Ebay has an SDK. From the site: "Now Available: eBay SDK for Windows 3.0" My first thought: Who is still using Windows 3.0? Why would anyone make an sdk for it?

 

Back up. Reparse. It's the 3.0 Version of the eBay SDK. Ah ha! Interesting. This might be fun to play around with in VS Whidbey. I don't have an eBay account, as my wife Shai handles the selling of my stuff on eBay:

 

Shai: We need a new table for the microwave.

Me: What happened to my old kitchen table that was holding the microwave?

Shai: I sold it on eBay.

 

An eBay account appears to be a requirement to make any effective use the sdk. That seems reasonable to me so I try to sign up using my gmail account. The gmail address, however, is not good enough unless I cough up a credit card number. I don't want to give out a credit card number when my only goal is to play with an sdk. But there is an alternative! Ebay suggests providing an ISP, Company, or School email address. So instead I decide I'll go ahead and use my work address.

 

It won't accept my work address. It just plain doesn't think my work email is valid. Perhaps it's because it ends with @microsoft.com? Is that a red flag that someone is probably trying to scam the system? Very odd. So I use my alum email address instead (a much better idea anyway!) and now I have an ebay account. As luck would have it my wife just called.

 

Me: Do you have anything I can sell on eBay?

Shai: What!? (laughter) Why!? What have I sold recently that would make you want to sell my stuff on eBay?

Me: hmmm…. Shai items to sell?

Shai: Are you trying to think? Don't hurt yourself.

Me: How about your cactus?

Shai: (laughter) You are not selling anything!

 

Maybe I'll get back to actually trying out that SDK at some point…

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