5 Dec
1999
5 Dec
'99
12:07 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Innfogra(a)aol.com <Innfogra(a)aol.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 05, 1999 2:03 PM
Subject: ebay feedback
In a message dated 12/5/1999 10:22:16 AM Pacific
Standard Time,
rigdonj(a)intellistar.net writes:
No you can't anymore. If you detect or suspect fraud then
anyone can report
that to Safe Harbor, the customer service department. I have done that, and
like keeping up with spares, if you have a good reason for suspicions you
should report it.
The old adage still holds, "If it is too good to be true then it generally
isn't." Some frauds are easy to detect.
The "IBM MF' guy is just stupid. I bet his item gets no bids. Stupid people
don't deserve a response.
The DEC card in France. I don't think I would send cash up front to him.
However he could just be a low budget person, this may be just fine. Scrap
value on that card is about $8.00 in todays market.
David Winter (the guy in France) has bid on some of my items and always paid
quickly. He seems to collect boards but does not buy entire systems.
Can you list negative feedback for a person even if you had no dealings
with them???
I don't think any IBM 1130 is worth more than a
couple of hundred in scrap
by
the way. I suspect less than that.
Then I guess the scrappers will be outbidding you..... The larger 1960 mini
computers had a lot more gold in them than the '70s models as the gold was
plated thicker in the '60s. The 1130 (from what I can remember) has more
than $100US in aluminum in it (just cpu + printer). I don't know what the
gold content is.. (I'll find out.. I know a company that does).. BTW I just
lost an IBM 360 to a gold scrapper [bid more than me]. Some of the metal
scrappers I know never bothered to look at gold content.. what's scaring the
hell out of me are these guys that know to the penny what they can extract
out of it and generally bid a lot higher than most.
john
PDP-8 and other rare mini computers
http://www.pdp8.com
Paxton