california digital

From: Jeff L Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com>
Date: Wed Aug 29 13:00:32 2001

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:46:26 -0700 "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
writes:
> >Some of their 20-year-old FDD's are priced right at where they were
>> when new. Do you suppose it's possible they're old inventory?

Of that, I'm almost certain. They've been sitting on some of this stuff
for over twenty years. I run into establishments like this IRL: Some
old geezer, store filled to the gunwales with NOS 'stuff', and positively
*refuses* to mark down any of the merchandise that's 'slow moving'.

Ten years later, the store looks about the same, with the same 'stuff'. .
.

> In looking at their page last night I noticed that while some of
> thier prices are quite reasonable, a lot of them are insane! When I
say
> insane, I mean insane even for dealers whose sole reason for existance
is
> keeping old hardware alive!

Yep. Like I said: *DRUGS*.


Jeff
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