1 Oct
2016
1 Oct
'16
2:13 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
On 10/1/2016 3:21 PM, N0body H0me wrote:
There are a couple of sellers in particular who routinely ask insane
prices, which I think distorts the economy: 'If that guy can ask a
gazillion dollars/pounds/euro for X, so can I." I think few people
actually look at *completed* sales, i.e. what people really paid for
something.
On one hand, it's a shame stuff ends up on ePay where it becomes the target
of 'feeding frenzy' behaviors - but it's not going to the scrappers, which
is good.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
-----Original Message-----
From where I sit, the big prices seem mostly centered around Apple 1's and
this Twiggy Lisa. Have any other computers have gone astronomical like
these?
- J.
From: cclist at sydex.com
Sent: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 11:12:02 -0700
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: ka... ching!
On 10/01/2016 08:27 AM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
But, like airplanes and boats, this looks like only a rich person's game.
...
The game has changed, obviously. We are in an era now when folks with
too much money and spare time and narcissism want to buy and sell and
display toys rather than play with them.
Looks like it's time to get out of this racket.
--Chuck
Yeh. Once we started seeing Classical Computers that could be considered
'investment grade', prices just got ridiculous for everything. Everyone
with an old computer in their closet started seeing dollar-signs.