4 Apr
2024
4 Apr
'24
7:17 p.m.
eBay prices have gotten silly. Sellers seem a lot more willing to sit
on items for years hoping they get 4-5x what something should sell for
rather than moving volume these days. It's odd psychology when you
know a lot of it just gets scrapped eventually when it never sells.
There is an ebay seller 'biff-howard-tanen' that has some C200s up
right now. All their items have "Make an Offer'' and they tend to be
fairly reasonable as long as you account for the free shipping they
offer. I've had mostly good luck with buying from them, and they made
right the couple oops.
Regards,
Kevin
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I just looked at the prices on eBay—yikes! All of my HP hardware from that era was pretty
inexpensive a few years back.
What are people using the B180L for that’s driven the prices so high? I assume it’s
another “there’s a piece of equipment that was built around this specific platform 20+
years ago, and we’re still running it so we need spares” situation, just like the
equipment that was built around the VAXstation 4000 Model 90 which keeps the price on that
insane.
Is there a specific need you’re trying to fill? I wound up with an additional B- or
C-series workstation as part of a deal, I can check what model it is (it’s in storage
right now) and we can talk off-list about maybe getting it to a good home. (I’m in the SF
Bay Area if that helps, no idea where you are.)
-- Chris
PS - There’s a Vintage HP Computers group at https://groups.io/g/VintHPcom/ where you’ll
also find lots of folks talking about the entire range of HP computer hardware.