Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

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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