I was able to do a quick interview with TipidPC’s Hermann Calero, a member of their Core Team. Although this interview is super-late since my previous article about TipidPC was made about a month and a half ago, I’m still glad that Calero, busy as he is (who isnt’??), took the time to answer my list of 9 questions:

Alleba Blog: How and when did TipidPC begin?

TipidPC: In August of 2001, a group of friends were sharing their hobbies with each other. They were members of the PinoyPC community, a community of Filipino PC enthusiasts. The section for buying and selling in the forum was so in demand, they aptly named the section “The Blackmarket”. Then the idea came up, instead of just having a portion of the forum for buying and selling, why not put up a site that is dedicated to buying and selling of PC parts.
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