10 Oct
2000
10 Oct
'00
2:59 a.m.
Will Jennings wrote:
Haha, ah yes... gotta love Virgil Rice.. I bought something from him once
and even though I picked it up from his house, he still wanted me to pay
like 30 bucks shipping.. He has lots of cool stuff that I'd love to buy, but
not at the kind of prices he wants for it.. It would be far less irritating
were he not only about 40 minutes from me... He has an HP 21MX that I've
drooled over but he wanted like 700 dollars for it... Hell, he wanted 200
bucks apiece just for empty HP racks... Sorry for the rant, but people who
would rather throw stuff out because they can't get what they think its
"worth" truly irritate me... I'm not asking people to give everything
away,
just to be reasonable about negotiating...
I'm not getting it from Virgil, I'm getting it from someone else (I let them
chime in if they so choose :-). I'm getting it at what I consider a fair
price and I'm not paying shipping (but I will be paying tolls, I think).
As far as the rant, that's OK, I've noticed a few people on ebay failing
to understand the true value of various computer equipment. Note to those
who wish put stuff on ebay:
1) If it's heavy you're in trouble unless it's really rare (not like
a steak :-).
2) Reserves are a pain, I've seen lots of stuff get ignored because
of reserves. Heck I've even bid on equipment only to discover I
couldn't go above the reserve.
3) Try to get a picture and if you do get a clear one.
4) If I can buy the same device used for around the same price, I'll
ignore the item.
I have more rants but I can't remember them all.
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