> > Another crazy price for an Apple IIe???
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2168296821
> I think the $700 was for the Woz signature, and it so happened to be on a
> IIe. Maybe I could copy that sig and put it on my IIe Platinum and increase
> the value twohundredfold.
> the winning bidder probably has several Corvettes too -- and all they are is
> a plastic Chevy.
Jup, heaving an A2 with a Woz signature, and the shows video
would make a nice setup ... well, I gues even I would have
payed more than 50 Bucks - unlike for a pastic Corvette (*1)
Gruss
H.
(*1)
Over here (Germany) the Corvett still has an image of a low
level pimp car. During the late 70s, early 80s, when the
Dollar started to decline quite fast, Chevrolet forgot to
raise the price in Marks (to earn more), which led to a
dramatic price drop. At some point, a VW Beetle convertible
did cost substantial more than Corvette.
While the average buyer still wasn't so much jumping on, a
whole generation of low level wanabes (I just keep the more
apropriate names for myself) bought them. Since the sale of
US GM cars wasn't part of the main Opel business, nobody over
here realy cared - and the Detroit was extremly happy with
soaring sales numbers ... just no real profit, since they had
a lot of blonn engines etc. It was also the time when American
car engeneering was not at it's best, so it gave US cars a bad
name in technology the very same time.
It's a blow US carmakers still feel. And when their European
companies tried to build the new models based on US designed
platforms (and designs) 2-3 years ago, their market share
droped also.
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Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 11:11:00 BST