Will Jennings wrote:
>
> Haha, ah yes... gotta love Virgil Rice.. I bought something from him once
> and even though I picked it up from his house, he still wanted me to pay
> like 30 bucks shipping.. He has lots of cool stuff that I'd love to buy, but
> not at the kind of prices he wants for it.. It would be far less irritating
> were he not only about 40 minutes from me... He has an HP 21MX that I've
> drooled over but he wanted like 700 dollars for it... Hell, he wanted 200
> bucks apiece just for empty HP racks... Sorry for the rant, but people who
> would rather throw stuff out because they can't get what they think its
> "worth" truly irritate me... I'm not asking people to give everything away,
> just to be reasonable about negotiating...
I'm not getting it from Virgil, I'm getting it from someone else (I let them
chime in if they so choose :-). I'm getting it at what I consider a fair
price and I'm not paying shipping (but I will be paying tolls, I think).
As far as the rant, that's OK, I've noticed a few people on ebay failing
to understand the true value of various computer equipment. Note to those
who wish put stuff on ebay:
1) If it's heavy you're in trouble unless it's really rare (not like
a steak :-).
2) Reserves are a pain, I've seen lots of stuff get ignored because
of reserves. Heck I've even bid on equipment only to discover I
couldn't go above the reserve.
3) Try to get a picture and if you do get a clear one.
4) If I can buy the same device used for around the same price, I'll
ignore the item.
I have more rants but I can't remember them all.
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Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 09:59:39 BST