_Collectible Microcomputers_ now available for order from VCF

From: Jeffrey Sharp <jss_at_subatomix.com>
Date: Thu Nov 7 20:06:27 2002

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, Mail List wrote:
> Is there a hobbyist discount? Something like $30.00 off the cover price
> with FREE shipping!!! If not, I might just rather wait until they are on
> eBay.

It seems odd that a reseller like yourself, charging exhorbitant prices for
things that ClassicCmpers like, would ask the above questions, even in
satire. How ironic. How asinine.

In another email, Mail List wrote:
> If the valuation data is based solely or primarily on eBay data and/or
> hobbyist opinion, then it would be failing to acknowledge a serious
> segment of the market, ie the commercial market in "out of production",
> "end of life" computer components.

Ah: your real motive! So you are scared that this book may educate people,
and then those people may be less willing to pay the high prices you demand.
It's all about money, isn't it?

One has to wonder why you are subscribed to this list. Maybe it is to have
access to equipment-available announcements in the hope that you can get
there first and resell for serious green. Maybe I would think of that as
exploitation. Maybe others here would think so as well.

I'm with Sellam on this one.

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 20:06:27 GMT

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