--- Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > No kidding. The seller is a Mac shop that's closing its doors. Most
> > of his stuff is overpriced, so I assumed that this was too - he's
> > asking $300.
>
> Well, since he's trying to go out of business, does he really want to go
> through the trouble of having to list this thing on eBay to get the $300
> that he wants?
He seems pretty pig-headed. Some of his (other) prices are absurd.
> If not then he should sell it to you for a far more reasonable $50.
> Without a keyboard or mouse (don't tell him a Mac mouse will work :)
Of course not. :-)
> he won't get $300 for it on eBay, I guarantee you that.
You underestimate the amount of stupid people who bid there, but with the
decline in the value of stock options, people aren't buying as many overpriced
vintage computers as they used to, I'd wager; at least not for as much
as they used to.
Still, I do agree. Working Lisa/MacXLs are going for $400-$500 or so.
> He won't get substantially more than $50, and the trouble he would have to
> go through to get the money, pack it and ship it will make it not worth
> the effort.
>
> Try to diplomatically bring this to his attention and maybe he'll see it
> your way :)
I was going to go by tomorrow on the last day of the sale and a) see if it's
still there, and b) offer him the $50 and see if he takes it. If he won't
budge, I'm not going to give him what he asks.
I've been through business liquidations on both ends. I negotiated the
entire quantity of Commodore stuff out of our local dealer when he closed.
A friend of mine and I split the cost and the haul. He only wanted three
or four pricey and valuable things (Ethernet card, large monitor, stuff
like that). I got, for not much more than this bozo wants for part of
a Lisa, two station-wagon loads of C= service center parts, including
a 19" Viking monitor with the special Amiga card, a couple of stripped
A2000s (back when they were worth a few hundred bucks), two parts drawers
full of PET through Amiga chips, three linear feet of C= service manuals,
promotional video tapes, the works. *That* was a going-out-of-business
sale!
This guy is still too attached to the stuff to recognize that he needs to
take what he can get and move on.
I plan to raid the dumpster next week for the stuff he couldn't sell. :-)
-ethan
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Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 01:37:02 BST