Finds in Houston

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 10:54:48 2001

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:25:49AM -0500, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> > I have tried
> > talking with a couple of them about the high prices but for some reason
> > they acted like the items belonged them and not free items given to
> > Goodwill.
>
> Do you not realize that Goodwill operates to make a *profit* ?
> Just because someone gives something to Goodwill for free doesent
> mean that they should turn around and give it away again.
>
> If someone gave you an IMSAI 8080 (bad example, I know) and you
> turned around and spent a day or so making sure it worked, would
> you then want to sell it for $25 a couple days later?

Just because someone puts 4 hours _at_ $8.25/hr (or whatever they make) into
a Commodore 64 does NOT mean that it is now worth at least $33 (plus
markup).

In my area (great San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area) Goodwill's and
Salvation Army's tend to mark computers at silly prices. It's sort of
taking advantage of the lower income folks who go into those stores
looking for deals on used goods and walking away with a computer that's
worth maybe 20% of what they paid for it.

> (although the members of this list tend to be more open and "free"
> with their hardware than other groups I've seen; I dont think anyone
> is going to give away an IMSAI..)

I did (VCF 2.0 :)

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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