Re: ebay and apple 2 parts

[rob@ubernerd-bacon.net-grill (Rob Hamadi)]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:10:42 GMT, "Frank Rizzo" <rizzo@jerky.com>
wrote:

>I think part of the issue is a combination of selling prices and weight.  A
>lot of the stuff may only fetch a couple bucks at auction and cost far more
>to ship.  For the potential seller, it is not worth the effort to box up a
>big monitor or CPU and drag it into the post office for just a couple bucks
>of net profit.  So most of the II stuff you see on ebay is usually small
>enough to ship cheaply and/or rare enough to fetch a worthwhile price for
>the seller.

This has always been a problem in the UK, simply because far fewer
machines were imported than were sold in the USA, therefore there's
less to go around, and shipping from the USA is prohibitive.

For those reasons I always make sure I've got some room in my suitcase
whenever I visit California ;-)

Rob Hamadi
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