There's a big difference between commerical
need (and typically the
pockets to pay for it) and mugging some poor schmuck that just wants to
relive his childhood or the "good old days".
Yeah, they care about (and price for) the former and don't give a shit
about the latter.
I've seen more than one vendor express the sentiment that once the
former market dries up, they send stuff straight to the scrappers.
Even though the latter market would pay more than scrap value, they
just blow them off.
As a capitalist, personally I think that's stupid.
It's really not that surprising considering they're the high-tech version
of the knuckle-dragging, beer swilling ass-hats that populate the low-tech
scrap industry.
I've personally witnessed machines being fed to a shredder for scrap value
because the stupid shit couldn't get someone to pay the outrageos(sp)
price he wanted for the machine. (uVAX II, wanted $4k in 2005)
g.
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