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Re: you gotta look around sometimes...
BLuRry wrote:
I can occasionally find rom 03 gs's at the local goodwill computerworks
for < $30 (sans monitor usually) as well as ADB keyboards/mice for <
$5. So how is $80 a good deal? The ram card?
I agree. Although they are rarer at my local Goodwill than a few
years ago, a typical price was $5-$10 for a IIgs CPU. Of course,
the keyboards and mice went separately for about $3, but ADB stuff
is now clearing out at about $1 each.
The RGB monitors were usually aroung $10 (like all similarly sized
monitors), but have become rare because of environmental concerns.
Monitors are now considered "toxic waste", and computers and other
consumer electronics are not far behind. ;-(
I've always been amazed at a culture that treats baking soda in a
box as food and baking soda spilled on the ground as "toxic waste". ;-(
What makes me want to laugh is the auctions closing on ebay where fools
are paying $40 for unenhanced //e's (here's a hint to the uninformed,
if it says APPLE ][ on boot, it isn't enhanced). It's not like they're
freaking rare, man. Such a mass-produced computer will take a very
long time to be considered a "rare collectible" item :-)
"RARE" and "VINTAGE" are now officially just white space.
In case anyone's wondering, I'm pissed off because I lost out on a
platinum //e, which had some serious discoloration and no monitor. I
figured $20 was the max I would throw at it. Someone threw $40 at it
literally on the last second even though there were only two other
bidders, including myself, going in $0.50 increments. I looked at the
winner's past purchases on eBay, and they seem to fall in the category
of needlessly wasteful spender who wants to be broke sometime in the
near future.
Or maybe they had just lost out on a similar auction and were so
PO'd that they just nuked the next one. ;-)
Or maybe they just wanted to buy one, and were willing to spend $40
to save a week.
Certainly, they have learned the value of sniping, rather than testing
you or your other opponent's willingness to go above $40 in the heat
of battle...
As I've said several times, if everyone sniped, we would just convert
the auctions into "sealed bid" auctions--not such a bad thing if you
value reason. (By that I mean that what something is worth to me
should not reasonably be a function of what it is worth to someone
else.)
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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