Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

Vintage Computer Festival wrote: No it's not rocket science, but I never cease to be amazed at what some people find difficult. If a person doesn't know about something, or have any interest in it, and possibly won't give much attention to detail, you'll end up with Apple //s priced as Apple 1s because they're both Apples. Granted, you aren't going to find an Apple 1 at Goodwill, but it could be Macs and Apple //s, or some other brand. Furthermore, they'll be no telling them any different because they looked it up in the book! In other words, for someone outside the realm of classic/used computers the book is taken as law, if even applied to the correct model, when the book is actually only a guide understood by someone inside the realm of classic computers. Besides, Goodwill isn't the place to buy classic computers, its the place to buy old stuff other people didn't want. They may have a classic computer, but I'm not going to give them a classic computer price, because Goodwill doesn't specialize selling in classic computers. They specialize in selling old stuff other people don't want, and they've treated it as such..... they probably know nothing about it, they haven't tested it beyond possibly trying to power it up. They got it handed to them buy someone that pulled up in a car, asked the person if they wanted a receipt, plopped it into a cart, and later someone shot it with a price gun and plopped it on a shelf next to the pile of cheap cameras, and then 2 customers picked it up shook it, and a third put a hair dryer on top of it, because the hair dryer was in the way of them looking at a Lloyd cassette deck. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA