Re: cards cost

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl> wrote:

>Louis Cornelio wrote:
>> 
>> Can you believe people make "frenzy purchases" of Apple II stuff??
>> In a way, I have to say that is cool just because it is so unbelieveable!
>> And if *you* {mr/ms csa2 reader} arent the one paying, why care?
>
>I'll tell you why I care. Suppose I am in need of some card - let's
>say my SCSI card has short circuited or whatever - and I know they
>aren't being manufactured anymore, and I heard that people elsewhere
>have paid a couple of dozen dollars for it, and there is exactly such
>a card for sale at eBay, and I bid a couple of dozen dollars, and
>then I see some idiot walking away with it for a couple of hunderd
>dollars, not because they *need* it, but because it was advertised as
>a GENUINE!! ABSOLUTELY ORIGINAL!! VINTAGE!! MUST HAVE!! REAL APPLE
>][!! product.
>
>*sigh*. That's why I care.

Pim, sometimes it is just supply and demand.  A card might not
be rare in your area, but it might be very rare somewhere else.
To you, an Apple High Speed SCSI card might be easy to find
for $60 to $70 and that is the price I too would pay for such a
card, but to an Apple II enthusiast in Ukraine or Egypt, anything
Apple II is rare and that enthusiast, whether a user or a
collector, is going to be willing to pay more.  Sometimes they
turn to eBay and pay more because that's the only place one
is going to get something like this shipped to Ukraine or Egypt.

I do not know how common Apple II stuff is in your country,
but I can understand it if you see stuff traded in the United
States online cheap and yet can't get the stuff in your country
cheap, but if this is so it is because the stuff IS rare in your
area.

In some parts of the Middle East, water costs more than oil.
I am sure some of the folks there get really pissed off when
they see us wasting water.