Two days to go on the Vemia vintage gear auction

Peter Forrest's latest Vemia synth auction is about to finish. Good news: He's finally fixed the website, which now works properly and relatively smoothly. Bad news: It's not the biggest Vemia ever, but there 's still more cool things here than in a month of eBay (unless you're in this category, of course). Highlights include a crazy rackmounted TR-808 (euww - blue LEDs), an EMS VCS3 for 'only' £900, a beautiful Electrocomp sequencer, a rare Technics monosynth and a tonne of weird bits.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

If you open more than one auction at a time, all the image pages show the same item. Look at the link to it, and it's always to the same page, http://www.spheremusic.com/Bargainimgdsp.asp -- with no parameters.

Open it in a new tab, and it shows the last item whose auction page you viewed.

They must be setting a cookie or something in the auction page, then reading it in the image page. That's actually a bigger hassle to code than doing it right.

I hope they didn't pay anybody very much for their shiny new site. If they did, they got ripped off.

# posted by

Gordon Freece : 12:26 am

Well, yes, I was trying to be nice...

# posted by

Tom Whitwell : 12:27 am

right now it says:

"Session or security error : A problem has been detected by our site. This can be because :"

etc etc etc

vemia is a joke. i am never wasting my time on visiting that site ever again as long as i live.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:32 am

Woo-hoo! I just bought that Rotel mixer :)

# posted by

gotimmy : 2:39 pm

I so hate their interface. You say it's fixed? Maybe I'll give it another year or two until the 'bugs' are worked out.

# posted by

Doktor Future : 4:41 am

Thanks for the tip, Tom! My boyfriend totally saved my day and pitched a couple of synths for me as my payday is still a ways off!

- New owner of a jd800, k5000r and a 101

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Anonymous : 2:32 pm