Re: eBay madness

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:

>skylarking wrote:
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-II-STARCROSS-Saucer-by-INFOCOM-SEALED-NEW_W0QQitemZ230253373809QQihZ013QQcategoryZ11988QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>As I'm fond of remarking:  At these prices I'm looking forward to a 
>comfortable retirement.  I have one of those, along with perhaps 1-200 
>additional games in a bin in my garage.  Not sealed, but that means $250 
>instead of $500, right?  LOL!!
>
>I'm not a gamer and this stuff is just taking up room.  eBay, here I come!

    I what makes this so unique it's worth over $500, the box? Wonder
what Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy new in box would 
fetch considering all the unusual items they included inside.

    Hmm, I have shrink wrapped Apple II Beagle Bros software (the
Timeout series for Appleworks) sitting in storage, might be fun to 
post it to eBay and see what it goes for... :) 

    Could kick myself, about 8 years ago there was a computer
Dollar Store (i.e. everything for just $1.00) just down the street from 
where I now live. They had shrink wrapped Apple II, Commodore,
Atari, Amiga, etc software from the 80's. I when I went back to pick
some stuff up, they had already gone under and threw out all the 
software! There wasn't _that_ much Apple II software, but it still
bothers me. From memory, the only thing I did buy on that first
visit was Springboard Publisher new in the box (still have it, still
unopened).

Mitchell Spector