On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, Mike Ford wrote:
Where can you
find out what the gold/aluminum/steel value of a
computer at? The obvious solution is to know what a scrapper is
willing to pay, and add $10 to your bid. A scrapper will never
spend more to buy something than it is worth, a collector will.
Not a good assumption. A scrapper might be willing to spend whatever it
took to make you never get a winning bid and just go away.
I have run into this specific issue a couple of times. It does indeed happen.
-Dave McGuire