IBM 3420 008 Magnetic tape storage on eBay -- needs rescue

CRIPES... First off, if anyone is even a halfway serious IBM collector and doesn't have a 3420, you are clearly not expending any energy. Everytime I think that the world supply of 3420s is drying up, more appear. Second, if is very unwise to bad mouth a scrapper. If anyone STILL does not know why, go and read my various rants about it in the archives. And this time think and absorb what I wrote. Third, jeepguymud is not a bad fellow - we have dealt before. I suspect he is rather new to the scrap gold business, as many of his purchases lately seem extremely unwise. For example, that 3990 in Florida will probably yield $100 in scrap, but shipping and labor is going to kill him (I was quoted just over $520 to get the thing to New York). And then all that stuff located near Washington is really gold-poor. Fourth, jeepguymud is not the bad guy here - one of the sellers is. The guy just outside Washington with the 9370 system was going to sell it to me, just after his first try marketting the 2440 on Ebay. I even met his price for it all. -- Will