Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <B5BECC84.BD2B%dneater@inebraska.com>,
Dain Neater  <dneater@inebraska.com> wrote:
>
>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).

As I said, I got every one of the things below from reading misc.forsale
and comp.sys.apple2.marketplace. Anyone else could have done the same. But
those days are over now since it all ends up at auction. 

I didn't mention stuff that I got from dealer "garage sales" and other stuff
you can't get online. Like a new in box VOC for $25 and $20 HS SCSIs and
$10 IW II network cards for instance. While it took luck to get those, any
of the stuff I got online could have been had by anyone else just as easily.

That's why I say auctions have ruined online horsetrading. You can't get
something like a superdrive card or LCD without giving up parts of your
anatomy on there.

>> 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
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