Skip wrote:
I see in your description that one could bid for the monitor only, but would still be bidding against those who bid on the whole system. How do you handle this? Would somebody bidding on the monitor only, have to outbid those who bid on the whole system? What kind experience would one expect if it were to be shipped to say- North America?
My logic is thus: An Apple //c LCD panel will cost me about $30 to ship, insured and airmail. You can pick up a //c in the US for pennies as far as I can tell - here, they're quite hard to find. If you're bidding against a US user, there's a fair chance they only want the LCD too after all.
So anyone bidding from the US will probably really only want the LCD - the CRT monitor is 220v and heavy to ship (and again, common as muck), the //c is a UK model with a 220v PSU.
Therefore, if you only want the LCD, you will have to be the high bidder, but you will not have to pay shipping at all - it will be shipped insured Airmail, packed extremely carefully, and I will (depending on how much it goes for) either donate the //c to a museum/collector I know, or list the //c on it's own in a UK only auction.
Needless to say the item would be marked as a gift so no customs charges; unless you were really concerned. I would also have both return and recipient address very clearly marked so customs don't destroy it - I have heard that if there is no return address, items could be trashed at customs. Horrific paranoia they have there...
If you want the whole lot - you can pay the shipping and have everything except the CRT monitor, because it would be really silly to ship that. Shipping the CRT monitor would cost far more than finding one in the US and there's a risk it would get broken. Shipping for the //c system, without the CRT monitor, would be around $80. So you'd be paying another $50 to get a computer than in the US would probably only cost $10-15 and wouldn't need a replacement PSU.
Does that make sense? I know it's confusing me! Richard -- RichardK - 1980s in a can. http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/music/ Retro computing - http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/retrotech/ Cars - 2004 Beetle Cabrio, 1989 Supra 3.0i, 1990 Sera MidiGuitar, Enterprise 128, AU/X. Apple 77-04. See links ;)