13 Aug
1998
13 Aug
'98
12:05 p.m.
But did she actually buy it? She placed her bid 6 mins before the
close of the auction when the high bid was only $3000. Right at
the end of the action, someone else placed a $12000 bid forcing
her bid to $12100 and the reserve still hadn't been met!
I got a kick out of the seller's comments, he claims the chance of
ever finding another is 0 and there has never been one on EBay for
as long as he has been buying and selling there. He must not
check out the auctions there very closely. It sounds like he didn't
expect anyone to actually make the reserve. Claimed he put a
high one on it because he wanted to see what the current "market
value" was. The best part was when he said he would throw in a
free SWTPC emulator for Windows95. Guess after spending so
much on an Altair, you couldn't afford the pick up an SWTPC as
well. :-)
On 13 Aug 98, at 13:47, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
Here is the purchaser. NOT what I would have
expected!
http://www.lne.com/lemay/
OK, pop quiz before you look at this site. Which of the following did you
think just paid $12,000 for an Altair?
A) A 60-year-old ex-Byte Shop manager
B) A retired aerospace engineer and ham radio operator with nothing else
to spend his money on C) A Ferrari-driving vested-option veteran of a huge
software company D) A museum curator E) An antique dealer/speculator F) A
30-year-old female author with a nose piercing
Kai
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