Snipe S/W?

I'm often tempted to "jump" Sellam's arguments just because HE's the one who made them, but you have to allow for the fact that "where you sit determines what you see." He's in a different situation than most of us, and in fact I'm in a different situation than most of us as well. He wants to complete a really broad selection of classic computers and computer-related hardware/software. Some parts of what he wants are pretty rare, and for his purposes, he really MUST have them. Most of the rest of us are pretty narrow in our respective specialties. He's not. Now I can see how it p*sses him off when he sees THE one item he's needing to make a section of his collection work a certain way go for about $2k more than he's prepared to pay, particularly when he didn't buy it for $50 because he thought that was a mite high.