21 Mar
2005
21 Mar
'05
8:03 a.m.
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 09:50 -0600, William Layer wrote:
- While eBay prices are to be taken as a general mix
of legtimacy, ignorance,
greed, stupidity and outright scamming, Goodwill prices aren't that much more
'helpful' either. Unless they have a good 'picker' doing the pricing,
Goodwill
and their ilk have a mission to sell old junk for the cheap. We've all had
impossibly lucky finds at these places..
Except that such stores don't really exist over this side of the pond
any more - they've all been forbidden from selling electrical goods by
the health & safety morons (as in "Oh my God, it plugs into the wall -
that's *dangerous* and someone might sue us").
Actually, given that our current stupid compensation culture seems to
have jumped the pond from the US, I'm quite surprised such places exist
over there too.
I'm not sure where old computers go to die over here any more. I suppose
a lot of them find homes with the recyclers, who put them on ebay in the
hope of making 10x the actual value, or just crush them for the gold
value. Grumble.
cheers
Jules