23 Jun
1998
23 Jun
'98
7:58 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
The new market efficiencies that the internet brings
to the collecting
game only make that local hunt and kill that much more satisfying. And
what about buyer principles? Next time your neighbor offers to give you a
free IMSAI, do you accept, or do you let them know that they could get
$1000 by offerring it on the net?
HAHA! Exactly. I went over this dilemma in my mind as well. Sometimes I
get outrageous deals (compared to the online auctions of course) and feel
just the slightest bit guilty that I know where these guys could have made
ten times more. But the deal is, it's up to them to find the buyer, not
me. We negotiate and agree upon a price, and both parties walk away
happy. I pay what I feel is a fair price, regardless of what the
prevailing online prices may be.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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