And the same people who take a surplus machine, break
it up
for parts and auction it off a nut and a bolt at a time.
Or auction a card and its associate cabling separately.
Vultures...
Keep in mind that vultures are NOT an Ebay exclusive. People have been
doing this sort of selling since the first thing became collectable. I
don't like it, but it's life.
And to add to that, this bit about people parting machines and selling
them as parts on Ebay is way overblown. I think I have seen _three_
sellers that I suspect are doing this*. Out of the thousands that post
auctions to the vintage computer category, that's _not_too_bad_.
So quit whining about Ebay, everybody. I notice that probably half of
the people on this list use it. I'm one of them, both buying and selling.
We are not "clueless morons", thank you.
*For those that will immediately bring up the guy that sells bits of
metal from a Univac all the time - remember once he heard the slander
from this list, and it is quite clear that what he has
IS only metal. The
original machine is long gone. He is not a vulture.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org