27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
1:10 p.m.
The Great Vintage Computing Heist???
And yes on the time it takes. There is a guy on ebay called scifiman. He has been
unloading an absolutely massive vintage computer collection, especially rare commodores,
for like 6 or 7 years now. He is being kind of firm on a lot of his prices though. I do
dread the idea of having to package and ship this stuff. Never enjoyed that process.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:00 AM
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Cc: Sellam Abraham <sellam.ismail(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Revocable Living Trust for Computer Collectors
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM Teo Zenios via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Ditching a collection is a full time job. It took you
so many years to
put it together and it will take the same amount of time to part it
out if you expect to get any real money out of it (unless you sell the
most wanted items and recycle the rest).
This is very true, as I discovered when I began selling off (what remained
of) my collection in 2017. I thought I'd get it all out in a year or so.
It's been 7 years and I'm still at it, with no real end in sight. Granted I
haven't been working on it diligently, and I still ended up with 40 pallets of stuff
after the Great Vintage Computing Heist of 2012, but disgorging a large collection is in
fact a major undertaking, unless you're willing to sell it all at one price, and can
find such a buyer to take it in one lot.
Sellam