Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

["CybrSlider" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Yes indeed. I had always wanted to break into the Apple world. I started
with an Atari 8bit. I couldn't afford Apple at the time but always wanted to
get a IIe or IIgs. Well, thanks to eBay, I've got 3 IIe's, 3 IIgs's, 6 5.25
drives, 2 3.5 drives,  scsi CD, 4 monitors, printers, memory expansion
boards, etc., and I got them very cheap. I bet I didn't spend $200 on all
that. I even got 2 Mac IIsi's in that lot. And, everything works!


John King <joki@eskimo.com> wrote in message
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> FWIW, I agree. Ebay isn't a problem at all. Some people complain because
> their exclusive channel of cheaps has dried up. Ebay simply introduces
more
> public to more product. This helps keep the Apple II community *alive*.
> Also, it will increase the value of the stuff you own.
>
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> "Dain Neater" <dneater@inebraska.com> wrote in message
> B5BECC84.BD2B%dneater@inebraska.com">news:B5BECC84.BD2B%dneater@inebraska.com...
> >
> > I personally think that without ebay, out there it would be really
> difficult
> > to find things so easily(albeit more expensive).  While it does drive up
> the
> > prices for particular items, SCSI cards, other such rare items, it does
> give
> > me a chance to buy them, that I wouldn't have had before.  It isn't eBay
> > that is the problem, it is the basic concept of the Free Market economy
> that
> > drives the prices so high.  You normally can't find this stuff where I
am
> > from.  The further we get from the last time this stuff was produced,
the
> > harder it is going to be to find this stuff.  I wish I would have
invested
> > more money back then, but I was broke and could  barely afford my used
> IIgs.
> > I have gradually built the thing up from using ebay, csa2m, a2web
> > classifieds, Delphi's board, Alltech, and a few others, and I still have
> > work to do on it:)
> >
> > Right now, I would really like to find a superdrive card(good luck).
> >
> >
> > dain
> >
> > >
> > > I am like SO glad that I got all the hard to get stuff I wanted to get
> back
> > > in '95, before epay showed up and ruined online horsetrading. Check
out
> > > some of the finds from back then which I found through old fashioned
FS
> > > post in the forsale groups:
> > >
> > > flawless condition original ][ in its original box with all manuals:
$15
> > > Red Book: $40
> > > file://c LCD screen: $125
> > > /// plus: $25
> > > superdrive card with superdrive mech: $200 (recall this is '95 we're
> talking
> > > so a superdrive mech was still worth some bux)
> > > /// with profile hard disk: $30
> > > Bell & Howell black ][ plus: $30
> > > Mac 128: $100 (another cream puff complete with manuals and how-to-use
> > > cassette tape still shrinkwrapped)
> > > working Mac XL plus non working Lisa 2: $200
> > > file://c plus: $25
> > >
> >
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