SOL-20 / eBay prices

From: Ben Bridgwater <benb_at_basit.com>
Date: Tue Nov 19 07:51:17 2002

Sellam Ismail wrote:
> I believe the seller is being completely disingenuous when he says, "I
> don't have a monitor or the expertise to test it", considering that he is
> selling a monitor with the Sol! Being that it only contains a RAM card,
> this is seller code for "it doesn't work but I don't want to let you know
> that". Dishonest.
>

He says the keyboard lights up when it powers on, so it does also have
the main board (which is where the processor is in a SOL), but still at
these prices you're paying for collectability rather than functionality,
so a non-original memory card doesn't add much value - it is a minimal
SOL, albeit in nice condition.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he doesn't realize
that the TV is meant as a display - he probably thought the PL-259 video
connector was to attach a boat anchor or some other exotic accessory. It
seems that a lot of the tech stuff on eBay is sold by people who are
*completely* non-technical - I stumped one seller by asking him what
card an Apple 3.5 drive was attached to - he had trouble "tracing the
wires". Doh!

Ben

P.S. I read in the CCTalk archives that you had Bob Marsh as a previous
VCF speaker .. did you ever put a transcript of his talk on-line, or
maybe have a recording of it available?
Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 07:51:17 GMT