25 Jan
2002
25 Jan
'02
6:46 a.m.
At 02:49 PM 1/25/02 -0500, Ian wrote:
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Quoted from Gunther's auction >> "Woops! I should have noted earlier
that
I'm going to cancel bids from people who are obviously ebay resellers and
take advantage of a sluggish economy to stock up. I sell with NO RESERVE
and would hate to have a good deal not go to an end-user. Especially with
DEC stuff."
Hmmm. Since he obviously didn't make this cable then doesn't that make
him an E-bay reseller? Doesn't that stkike anybody else as being
hypocritical?
Joe
So yes, I encourage for-profit reselling of old
computer
equipment, whether it's by me or a computer club.
Personally, I have no problem with this, but it would
seem to make the museum or club actually a dealer. And
this I also have no problem with, as long as the members
of the "for profit" computer club themselves are not
anti-commerce.
Gunther Schadow had an auction on eBay, and he had some
kind of "thing" about someone buying his item who might
want to make a little money on it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=…