21 Aug
2004
21 Aug
'04
12:23 p.m.
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Scott Stevens wrote:
My current personal gripe: I go to the IUPUI auctions
in Indianapolis
these days, and the dolts who run the auction have developed a habit of
shrinkwrapping all the older Macs onto a pallet and not allowing them to
be bid on as individual machines! Last time, there were two nice SE/30
machines, which I would have gotten for the miniumum $5 bid, but they
were embedded in a skid of uninteresting (late model) dumb terminals.
The auction management almost guarantees that those Macs will only go to
a scrapper.
Just bid what it takes to get the pallet (probably more than the scrappers
will pay, but not so much that it's not worth it to you) then take what
you want and offer to give the rest FOR FREE to the ever-present
scrappers.
Win-Win!
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