Value

Sam Ismail wrote: Come on Sam, you of all people should realize that what we have out here is not necessarily easily available in other parts of the country. I think you are imposing your own education and knowledge of what is available here on others who may not be so fortunate. As one example of what is available here (Santa Barbara), but not elsewhere, I *highly* doubt anyone else anywhere in the world could have come up with the collection of Polymorphic stuff I have (including source code, parts lists, engineering drawings, specs, business plan, etc., etc., etc.) That happened because 1) they were made here in Santa Barbara, and 2) contacts I have knew about my collecting and were able to save this stuff from going to the dump. So assuming you had, lets say, the Polymorphic Business plan, how would you put a value on it? While I don't know how many were made let alone still around, I rather doubt there are more than perhaps a couple in existance now (I only know of this one.) I am really interested to hear your answer on this one!!! Heading off your comments that this is an unusual situation (which I think it is), certain areas have a higher concentration of technical types than others, university towns, silicon valley, Boston area, etc. Things are much more likely to be found in those areas than areas like, lets say, the Michigan Upper Pennisula (sp?.) So what is the difference in availability of something between the two areas? How would that affect the price (value) of a given item in the two areas?