10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
5:36 p.m.
This goes back to a conversation of a couple of weeks
ago
concerning selling stuff as parts or whole or whatever. Currently on
eBay there is a seller that is parting out an Apple Lisa that was
fully functional up until a few days ago and the seller now has
disassembled it and has the individual parts listed for sale.
Granted, it's the seller's property and theirs to do with as they
please, but I don't see the reasoning behind parting out a fully
functional system. In the past, the only things I've parted out like
that, whether with cars or computers, are items that hold little
value due to being nonfunctional or otherwise damaged.
In this case I would say ignorance, since a LISA has a fair value as a
system, but in a LOT of other stuff nobody wants to pay the cost of
shipping the whole thing, but people who need this or that part don't mind
as much. Sadly for a more mercenary operation just a few parts get offered
for sale and the rest of the computer gets tossed in bins of like parts
that are sold as scrap. A typical computer scrapper sells almost NOTHING
but the bulk stuff.