Re: Why is this auction so high?

["Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net>]

"Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> 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.

Then how do you explain the pic of the label of a
Thermal printer in the description?

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> "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
> > >
> > >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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