Put on the hip waders

I had some discussions with the fellow yesterday, Douglas. I think he updated the auction based on that. It is clear he is trying to reach out and push the buttons of someone who sees a unique conversation piece, and not a computer artifact. My biggest complaint about his listing was pointed out by Allison, and that was that it looked like it was drug out of a ditch. He has a lot of skin in the game, and if he wants to sell something like this should make a much better presentation than the ebay photos. As one says, the web / internet is forever, so anyone who grabbed these photos and stored them has a pretty unflattering snapshot of the state of this thing. He deals with antique furniture and other things that sell when they look good, and as much as he has into this, should treat the presentation of both the facts, and the image in a high quality fashion. Obviously the update to the auction was silly, and full of errors, not a good update. I'd like to wish him success but I don't know how to help him if he won't listen. Clearly noone here would want it for anything like the value he places on it, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. If he finds it, it potentially raises the value of all older computers if it is done right. If it is done like PT Barnum doing it, it probably won't help much. Again I'm coming from the angle of hoping that the value of our collections could be recognized and placed at a level above E-waste and metal scrap. On 3/7/2012 4:11 PM, Sam Onella wrote: