29 Dec
2005
29 Dec
'05
9:17 a.m.
In article <43B3837B.7040507 at oldskool.org>,
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> writes:
I got over the pricing stuff a while ago (I snipe all
my bids
automatically using a service); what irks me currently is the wild range
of prices. There are outfits who list things like somewhat uncommon PC
and Mac components (drives, cables, a ROM, etc.) for $150 or more --
excuse me?? I guess 'old' equals 'goldmine' to the stupid people, and
it bugs me to no end that you can't talk them down. Ebay stops being
convenient at that point.
Yeah, I have noticed this too. There's also the mentality of "rare"
== "expensive". A Q-bus A/D converter board was recently listed with
a minimum bid of $250 (!). When noone bid, he relisted it at minimum
bid of $200 and still noone bid. It hasn't been relisted again, I
wonder if he sold it elsewhere for a "best offer" price.
Then I see things like *pieces* of computers being offered for prices
higher than entire systems sell on ebay and its only a "buy now" item
with an expiration date of 90 days.
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