Re: Why is this auction so high?

["Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net>]

Your right it's not a thermal printer. I looked at it wrong. Yet still, I've
seen good IIc's go for $15, maybe $25 with a monitor. It's not a IIc+
afterall.

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> In article <PKgdb.442373$Oz4.248347@rwcrnsc54>,
> Vince Briel <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote:
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2754751507&category=4610
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> >Is it the thermal printer?
>
> What thermal printer?  It has an Imagewriter bundled with it...a 9-pin
> dot-matrix printer.
>
> People who don't know better are what's responsible for the high price.
It
> also doesn't hurt that the description uses "vintage" three times to
> describe what sounds like a fairly ordinary system--probably just 128K,
the
> 9" "ET" monitor, and the printer, with no goodies like extra memory or a
> hard drive (I could see one of Chinook's SmartPort hard drives getting bid
> up fairly high all by itself).
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