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Ugh, another monster spawned. On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Joe R. wrote: I tried twice, first politely and then perhaps not so politely, but in either case he passed up the opportunity to return the "hello". Because we KNOW that Al is doing something for the benefit of the entire community (and we KNOW you don't have deep pockets ;) But we don't know what Dennis is up to and so I, for one, don't like it when someone is snarfing up practically everything in sight and paying ridiculous sums for it to boot which is causing unnecessary inflation. Look, if he was just buying one of something and then moving on to the next bright shiny object then it wouldn't be so bad, but in many cases he's buying multiples of the same god damn thing and jacking the price up on those things to unnatural levels. It's rather silly. Fine, whatever, blow all your money on whatever you want. But if I'M only willing to pay $X for something which happens to be what most of the market agrees it's worth, and then someone ignorant of market value comes along and severely screws up the market by paying $3X just because they can wipe their ass with money, I have every right in the world to be pissed off at that person. You wouldn't like it either. I had a project where I was putting together a personal collection for a very wealthy individual, and even though I had an almost unlimited budget, I *still* was very shrewd with my purchases because I didn't want to screw it up for everyone else. My client actually chastised me for bidding too timidly. But I didn't feel it was necessary to needlessly waste their money or inflate the market for that period of time when I was unleashed on it with a mission and a credit card. This hobby, much like everything else, is its own ecosystem. And when something comes in and throws the balance of the ecosystem off, there's going to be noise. I just happen to be making it again this time because I see it as a threat. As I've said time and again, I don't want this hobby becoming the sport of kings. This hobby was made by guys and gals who held on to old computers because they knew it mattered and like to tinker with them, and I don't want it to be taken over by people with large bank accounts, especially if it's just an investment to them. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]