Parting out

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Sun Nov 11 01:36:22 2001

> This goes back to a conversation of a couple of weeks ago
>concerning selling stuff as parts or whole or whatever. Currently on
>eBay there is a seller that is parting out an Apple Lisa that was
>fully functional up until a few days ago and the seller now has
>disassembled it and has the individual parts listed for sale.
>Granted, it's the seller's property and theirs to do with as they
>please, but I don't see the reasoning behind parting out a fully
>functional system. In the past, the only things I've parted out like
>that, whether with cars or computers, are items that hold little
>value due to being nonfunctional or otherwise damaged.

In this case I would say ignorance, since a LISA has a fair value as a
system, but in a LOT of other stuff nobody wants to pay the cost of
shipping the whole thing, but people who need this or that part don't mind
as much. Sadly for a more mercenary operation just a few parts get offered
for sale and the rest of the computer gets tossed in bins of like parts
that are sold as scrap. A typical computer scrapper sells almost NOTHING
but the bulk stuff.
Received on Sun Nov 11 2001 - 01:36:22 GMT