24 Aug
2003
24 Aug
'03
10:20 a.m.
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Mike Ford wrote:
Alameda County Computer Resource Center has often been
mentioned as a
nice place to visit, and a good resource for older computer items. I
made a BIG detour on our vacation and stopped in last Thursday, and
they are neither. No looking, no help, nothing sold, in short please
go away. Maybe it was just the weinie of the day in charge, but it was
still a total waste of time.
The first time I went, It was great, I left off a fair ammount of
good-but-old-and-unuseable by me stuff, and walked a way with a
AppleIIc+, a great little machine - with
all kinds of goodies.
The second time it was like you said. I think some tax-type got ahold
of them and told them that they were selling without withholding sales
tax. They said the could
only sell to someone who had a resale license. (but they could
'donate' the equipment to me if I 'donated' to the 'pizza fund')
And I
also got the 'scram ya bother us kid'
feeling from them.