Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

[Dain Neater <dneater@inebraska.com>]

I personally think that without ebay, out there it would be really difficult
to find things so easily(albeit more expensive).  While it does drive up the
prices for particular items, SCSI cards, other such rare items, it does give
me a chance to buy them, that I wouldn't have had before.  It isn't eBay
that is the problem, it is the basic concept of the Free Market economy that
drives the prices so high.  You normally can't find this stuff where I am
from.  The further we get from the last time this stuff was produced, the
harder it is going to be to find this stuff.  I wish I would have invested
more money back then, but I was broke and could  barely afford my used IIgs.
I have gradually built the thing up from using ebay, csa2m, a2web
classifieds, Delphi's board, Alltech, and a few others, and I still have
work to do on it:)

Right now, I would really like to find a superdrive card(good luck).


dain

> 
> I am like SO glad that I got all the hard to get stuff I wanted to get back
> in '95, before epay showed up and ruined online horsetrading. Check out
> some of the finds from back then which I found through old fashioned FS
> post in the forsale groups:
> 
> flawless condition original ][ in its original box with all manuals: $15
> Red Book: $40
> //c LCD screen: $125
> /// plus: $25
> superdrive card with superdrive mech: $200 (recall this is '95 we're talking
> so a superdrive mech was still worth some bux)
> /// with profile hard disk: $30
> Bell & Howell black ][ plus: $30
> Mac 128: $100 (another cream puff complete with manuals and how-to-use
> cassette tape still shrinkwrapped)
> working Mac XL plus non working Lisa 2: $200
> //c plus: $25
>