Let Down at Goodwill

["Gary Sutton" <otter@oz.net>]

Had a really big disappointment at the Bremerton Goodwill today.  Back 
in their electronics section, we noticed an Apple IIGS sitting on the 
shelf, waiting patiently for someone to give her a good home.

The label said:  'Apple IIGS:  Includes 7 parts.  Monitor, 
Keyboard/Mouse, Disk Drive, Hard Drive, Printer, Joystick, Memory Box'

The price was listed at $129.95, which neither I nor my roommate would 
normally be willing to pay for a GS.  However, this one allegedly had 
a hard drive and we felt that would make it worth the $$.  We turned 
it on and got 'Check Startup Device' with the cute bouncing apple 
icon.  That was when we got suspicious...  We then went to the 
control panel and had a look at the RAM Disk settings  (she had only 
1.25M), and the slot settings; which were all at their defaults.

Next, we turned it off and carefully opened her up.  Only card inside 
was the standard Apple IIGS RAM card.  At that point, we had seen 
enough.  We closed her back up and put her monitor back on top.

I think that whoever priced it, somehow mistook the 3.5" drive with an 
actual disk sticking out of it for a hard drive, and as for the 
"Memory Box", that was simply what they chose to call the computer 
itself.  Sheesh!  Seems people are getting more and more clueless 
about computers every day.  :3

I think this must have been our biggest let down in our coupla years 
of thrifting and I hope that anyone else who considers buying that GS 
will be intelligent enough to open it up and look inside first before 
shelling out that kind of $$ for a stock GS.  Usually when they come 
up for sale, they can be had for around $50 - $60 around here...

--Otter