16 Jul
2005
16 Jul
'05
7:28 p.m.
'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
>>>I paid over $1100 for my dual 133 BeBox. I
bought it during the "dot
...
Granted, on specific items, as I said about the Curta
in my other reply just
now. We just can't have one person being irresponsible and manipulating the
whole market for everyone else. It's one thing for prices to change over
time, but to have one person come in out of nowhere and start f-cking with
everything just because he can isn't right.
...
Paraphrase: when I do it, it is OK, but when the other guy does it more than me,
it is wrong.
As has been pointed out, the price is set by the 2nd highest bidder, so DK isn't
to blame. If DK makes lower max price bids but which are still high enough to
win, it won't drop the price of auctions one whit. The only way to get the
average price down is to ask him to lose more auctions. Do you think he'll
agree to it?
Besides, haven't we seen this a number of times before? fdbruce is selling all
sorts of "interesting" (to me) machines on ebay for the past few months. A year
or two ago he was one of those deep pocket buyers. He got tired and now they
are getting injected back into the system. No harm done. Well, other than he
is currently selling a "in need of repairs" Sol-20 and separately a microcomplex
80/64 video mod board which obviously originally was part of the at modified
Sol-20 (without this board, that Sol won't do anything).
DK's intentions are not our business. I doubt he is using them to test a
grinding machine. These machines will appear again.
How many people on this list have systems, most of which will sit in a pile
somewhere until they get resold on ebay or traded for some other system? Isn't
this a waste? How is it much different from DK's presumed "sin" of
hoarding?