eBay alert: TI 980B mini and a HUGE IBM drive

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Fri May 4 19:53:00 2001

Chad Fernandez wrote:
>
> If I am looking for more than an oddball part, like a computer, or a
> peripheral.... Ebay is the FIRST place I look. If I am looking for a
> particular bracket, for my BA23 case, I'll look here first. If I am
> looking for guidance with a bid price, why not ask here?? People here
> know what the going rate is for stuff, stuff that I am not as familiar
> with.

Ok. I give up. ip500 wants my honest opinion? Since I've never seen a
980 on ebay in several yearws of watching, it's worth exactly $9.99 at
the moment, or what ever the current high bid is. An industrial or lab
equipment supplier might ask several thousand for it, if they had it,
but they'd only get that much from a corporate purchaser with a revenue
stream being held up by a broken machine, in an extreme emergency. That
is, somebody they had by the short hairs who was spending someone else's
money. They sure wouldn't pay that much if you just walked in cold
trying to sell it, because it's really an obsolete piece of junk that
will take up valuable storage space, to them.

There you have it: $9.99

Send me your address, Craig, and I'll bill you my usual $50 single-item
appraisal fee. I'll give you a 20% list member discount on an assessment
of the drive's value, if you want that, too. .

>
> I would rather see stuff on Ebay, than hear of it being given to
> Goodwill, unless it's my Goodwill :-) All to often I see nice stuff
> trashed my customers, or parts lost by workers.
>

Did I say anything to the contrary? We were talking about a list member,
however.

Regards,
jbdigriz
Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 19:53:00 BST