10 Feb
2007
10 Feb
'07
8:48 p.m.
--- jim <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote:
Chris M wrote:
Well in my experience, if you're looking for a
psycho, ebay isn't a bad place to look. What can you
do. I've met a few too.
Once something winds up in a museum or someone's
collection, you can consider it lost essentially.
Generally speaking (and maybe this is an over
generalization), they're one in the same. Often the
impetus behind getting my hands on something (unless
of course it's crazy and groovy and I love it for
myself) zany is so that others can have access to it.
Loads of nuts just get something so that they can rub
it under someone's nose. Now I'm no martyr, and most
of my acquisitions are for moi, but I'm always willing
to share the docs and whatnot. Getting them scanned up
and all is a task as we all know though.
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wouldn't it be nice though...wouldn't it
be real
nice
if the winner would take something like that, scan
it,
and make it available to the dumb masses? Perhaps
a
group bidding network should be formulated and
really
crazy stuff like that could be made publicly
available, instead of just going into someone's
private stash, or just to sit behind glass in some
museum.
The psycho, er, ah seller in this case is "computer
knowledgable" to
quote one of his emails to me in the past, and could
do the scanning
as a service to collectors as well, and not detract
from the value
of his items.
I commented to him about something in the past, and
got back a
hate filled response from him and would never buy
anything from
this guy.
sad to say, he has a lot of stuff that probably is
significant. which
points up one of the things that can be really
frustrating about buying
anything, the bad seller.
I have had few bad experiences with people on ebay,
but I didn't
even buy from this guy and he went nuts.
as to "behind glass" in museums, I hope that is not
a permanent
situation with respect to documentation and
software.