Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	But there's lots more items brought out for sale tho.  The selection is
vastly improved from what it used to be.  Prices aside.


bp

Randy Shackelford wrote:
> 
> In article <8n9b5d$8jm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <rocketusa@delphi.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah I know it's not nice to snip all of the text going with the attribution
> line, but this post wasn't exactly done with normal posting convention in
> mind anyway. Plus I missed the original post.
> 
> >>Like I just said in the Subject... Someone earlier mentioned about some
> >>guy in the Orient purchasing a plain Apple II for $610. Just now,
> >>someone offered me an Apple II. I offered a pretty decent price for it
> >>(don't want to disclose my offer). But then he writes back saying,
> >>"it's hard to sell an apple 2 for $XXX plus shipping when they are
> >>going for over $600 on ebay.... thanks for the offer but i will need to
> >>get closer to its value...." It's value??? $600 is NOT its value!!! ]!
> >>...It's getting much tougher to complete an Apple II collection
> >>nowdays! :(
> 
> 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
> //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
> //c plus: $25
> 
> That's a few I recall with prices off the top of my head. Now add up what that
> stuff might cost you at auction. And keep in mind that the ][ was the most
> incredible find of the lot I think. That thing looks like it did the first
> time it came out of its original box in '79 or whenever.
> 
> Needless to say, I'm not fond of auctions and how they ruined the opportunity
> to get stuff like this.
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