Re: Ripoff Thrift Stores, Was: New Apple II BBS

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Byron Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.A41.4.44.0402072241410.34744-100000@acs2.acs.ucalgary.c
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: Sheldon,
:
: I don't think we are going to agree on this.  I have had a very
low
: opinion of eBay since the early days, mostly because it
encroaches on
: my turf.  If somebody wants to fetch eBay prices, they should
sell it
: on eBay instead of using hyperinflated bids as a negotiating
point.
:
: As per your "stuffing it in a closet" argument, I've tried to
avoid
: adopting a particular economic ideology.  The problem is that
they are
: imperfect models, and the deeper the relationships are the more
likely
: they are to break.  Many thrift stores have direct links to
community
: programmes and they tend to employ people who have fallen on
hard
: times.  This is what I meant by serving the community, not some
: abstracted notion where you hope that the n-th link in the
chain
: doesn't hoard money -- as you suggested that I was hoarding
Apple II's.
:
: And, FWIW, I hoard my computers in a barn.  :-)
:
: Byron.

Better than me I suppose. I haven't had a living
room for over a year now. Wish I had a barn, basement,
shed, garage, or whatever to keep it in.   8-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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