23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
8:28 a.m.
I have about 20 SCSI cables haning in the closet. These are from a batch that
I bought for $1.50 at a thrift store. Are you saying that eBay, which should
be a measure of the highest prices the market will bear, should beat that sort
of deal?
After all, there's bargain hunting, where you buy things not because you need
them but because the price is good, and then there's Bargain Hunting, where
you gratefully pay 15% less than what you normally have to pay for something
you need right now. The two don't mix well.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)
>Are you
saying that paying $9 for that
>cable is a "good deal" where you are?
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
If I was in need of it, yes. Any type of
external SCSI cable
bought locally will likely cost more than that, especially the newer
types. If you're able to find them used at thrift stores or whatnot,
that's fine, but it's my experience that you rarely find much SCSI
anything at thrift stores. At least in the areas I've frequented.
You can also go to the sellers at the big computer shows and maybe
pay less than that but it will cost you $5 or so to get into the show
so it doesn't make much sense to go just to buy that cable.
Oh, where were y'all when I was closing my office?
I would gladly have taken far less than that each for cubic yards of
cables.
At VCF (reasonable admission) and at Foothill (free admission), nobody
even looked at the bins of cables that we had at $1 each. That DID
include several cables like that one, although they had only been used for
connecting external SCSI CD-ROM drives to PC SCSI cards - never tried to
use them for serial.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com