Re: cards cost

[John Townsend <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> Now you see why I say epay and the like have ruined online horsetrading.
> In days gone by, you just looked for stuff to buy in the forsale groups.
> Now they have a few people who still sell like that interspersed with
> posts saying "see my auction" or even worse, articles offering stuff
> "for sale" but only having an epay URL when you read 'em. Boy I miss the
> days when there was no epay, no spam, and newbie idiots only showed up
> in September.

You know, I've been around here since before csa2.marketplace even existed, and
I've *never* seen so many Apple II's and accessories changing hands as I have on
any given day on eBay.  Far from "ruining" the trade, I think eBay has
rejuvenated it.  I wonder how many good Apple II systems have been brought out of
the closet or saved from the dumpster because the owners discovered that they
might be able to get enough money for them to make it worthwhile.  I wonder how
much longer it will be before some enterprising person realizes that they can
make real money by manufacturing a new Apple II accelerator or SCSI card vs. yet
another $39.99 PCI card.

Horsetrading is alive and well online.  See http://www.horsetrader.com/  :-)

--
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Pollyanna Principle
utownje@lexis-nexis.com