Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote ..
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, mc68010 wrote:
I can't believe how crazy the Apple thing has
got. One of Sellam's Apple II
just sold for almost $4k. Wow.
Rev. 0 Apple ][s with low serial numbers are being sought after. Another
unit went for > $5k the other week, but the buyer apparently reneged. If
that was one of Sellam's, it's all the more ammunition for his legal
action.
I can accept that there may be cases where a landlord can auction items
left on premises under a default, but I'm not aware of any situation where
they are allowed to blindly profit from the action.
Steve
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It's not just an Apple thing. A TI-99/8 just went for $3240 on Ebay. It seems this was
the second one over $3000 in the last 6 mos., so apparently it's not a fluke. Prices
on vintage stuff generally seem to be on an up-cycle, apparently unlike the value of the
time and labor spent assembling and protecting collections of historical, cultural, or
economic significance. Tell it to the vandals in Timbuktu, maybe.
I'm just catching up on the list after being too busy to read it the last couple of
months, and I'm still digesting Sellam's situation. Been through some similar
circumstances, myself, and on the other hand, I do some work for an asset management co.
that handles a lot of rentals, and to my intense dislike, property left behind after
sadly , no matter what you do, with owners breathing down your neck, the inevitable
evictions, property we go out of the way to have the tenant come get. But they don't.
Much less pay the back rent. So maybe I have a somewhat unique perspective on the matter.
I'm not sure, however, that I could remain either temperate or coherent about it, so
I'm going to refrain from comment just now. I can tell, though, when failure to pay
rent on a timely basis is a thinly veiled pretext for theft. Good luck, Sellam.
jbdigriz