eBay madness

At 12:30 PM 8/31/2004, you wrote: Oww! They got me! <thud> Outbid in the last 6 seconds on an RD54. I agree with Teo though. You put your max bid out there, and if you get it - great! If not, well I didn't want it at that price. If eBay, and the Internet, were not there all this stuff would be going in the dumpster instead. What's a fair price on an RD54? Sold 5 last week for $300 each. Had bought them years back though and paid probably $1700 apiece for them. It's the free market at work and it's a great thing - for everyone. Got my daughter a Toshiba laptop when she went off to college a few years back. She managed to step on the screen within a month or two. (Remembering how her room was usually knee deep in crap I wasn't too surprised). Anyway, found someone on eBay last week selling the same laptop for parts, with no cpu, drives, or memory. But the screen was good and I got it for $38+shipping and it had a good battery. Without eBay and the Internet we both would have lost out. By far and away a very beneficial thing for everyone. Most complaints I think are just sour grapes. :-) Ed