Re: cards cost

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <389F20D2.F81A5105@plane.nl>, 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.

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.
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