7 Nov
2002
7 Nov
'02
8:06 p.m.
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, Mail List wrote:
Is there a hobbyist discount? Something like $30.00
off the cover price
with FREE shipping!!! If not, I might just rather wait until they are on
eBay.
It seems odd that a reseller like yourself, charging exhorbitant prices for
things that ClassicCmpers like, would ask the above questions, even in
satire. How ironic. How asinine.
In another email, Mail List wrote:
If the valuation data is based solely or primarily on
eBay data and/or
hobbyist opinion, then it would be failing to acknowledge a serious
segment of the market, ie the commercial market in "out of production",
"end of life" computer components.
Ah: your real motive! So you are scared that this book may educate people,
and then those people may be less willing to pay the high prices you demand.
It's all about money, isn't it?
One has to wonder why you are subscribed to this list. Maybe it is to have
access to equipment-available announcements in the hope that you can get
there first and resell for serious green. Maybe I would think of that as
exploitation. Maybe others here would think so as well.
I'm with Sellam on this one.
--
Jeffrey Sharp