16 Jun
2013
16 Jun
'13
2:29 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- >
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:10:47 -0500
From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com>
If it's difficult to ship the larger item, and
easy to disassemble,
and there's a market for the parts, and it's easier to ship the parts,
and you have too much time on your hands and don't value your time,
then why not part it out? You can tell someone you got a sum total
of $300 for all the pieces when they assured you you'd only get $100
for the original.
Of course.
Unless it's a 'real' classic like the Apple I, most of the time just a few
parts will sell more easily and for more money than the system they came out
of, especially with today's shipping costs and hassle, so from a financial
perspective it makes a lot of sense to part out.
Even from the hobbyist perspective it make sense to make parts available;
often scrapping one machine will yield the parts to get three or four other
machines running again.
And of course the very people who condemn folks for breaking systems down
for parts are often the first to snap up those parts when they need them...
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