Re: Cost Whiners

["Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message vpKdnUCsLNLnp4zbnZ2dnUVZ_rqhnZ2d@comcast.com">news:vpKdnUCsLNLnp4zbnZ2dnUVZ_rqhnZ2d@comcast.com...

> And, just for precision, the selling price of an item on eBay is set
> by the *second highest bidder*, not the highest bidder.

Indeed, it's not just "one buyer" causing the inflation.

> 
> BTW, this thread is much less relevant to the comp.sys.apple2 group,
> since I see practically no whining about prices here (maybe some mild
> amusement about every month or two).  Crossposting a thread like this
> (with an emotional level of 8 on a scale of 10) seems more like a
> troll than a post.  Each old computer's market is quite different
> in its dynamics, so, if necessary (?), it would have been better to
> introduce this question *separately* to the various forums, rather
> than crossposting.
> 
> As it is, I expect a small torrent of postings to csa2 that are almost
> totally unrelated to the Apple II or its "marketplace".
>

To be fair, I've noticed a slightly higher level of maturity on the topic in c.s.a2, but the post was meant more as a retro-collector topic than a topic specific to any one machine or newsgroup.