17 Feb
2009
17 Feb
'09
12:46 p.m.
unfortunately eBay only charges the guy $ 0.35 for the listing... Maybe he is hoping for a
miracle!
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
That guy has been trying to sell that thing at that price for at least a
year.
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David Griffith
17 Feb
17 Feb
1:03 p.m.
a 35 cents listing fee is a small price to pay to have your ebay store browsed
by someone like me, who sees a listing and asks who is this guy? is he for real?
A Kaypro for $35k is just off beat enough to sucker me into taking a look.
How many others on this list, looked at his ebay store ?
I expect the he is trolling for comments.
The other Bob
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:46:36 -0800 (GMT-08:00), melamy at earthlink.net wrote:
unfortunately eBay only charges the guy $ 0.35 for the
listing... Maybe he is hoping for a miracle!
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
>
>That guy has been trying to sell that thing at that price for at least a
>year.
>
>--
>David Griffith
1:14 p.m.
He trying to sell this thing since oct. 2006 more then 20305 people looked
at it.
And there was a discusion about this Kaypro some time ago...
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens Bob Bradlee
Verzonden: dinsdag 17 februari 2009 19:03
Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Onderwerp: Re: No adjective for this ebay item
a 35 cents listing fee is a small price to pay to have your
ebay store browsed by someone like me, who sees a listing and
asks who is this guy? is he for real?
A Kaypro for $35k is just off beat enough to sucker me into
taking a look.
How many others on this list, looked at his ebay store ?
I expect the he is trolling for comments.
The other Bob
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:46:36 -0800 (GMT-08:00),
melamy at earthlink.net wrote:
unfortunately eBay only charges the guy $ 0.35 for
the
listing... Maybe he is hoping for a miracle!
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
>
>That guy has been trying to sell that thing at that price
for at least
>a year.
>
>--
>David Griffith
1:36 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:14:33 +0100, Rik Bos wrote:
He trying to sell this thing since oct. 2006 more then
20305 people looked
at it.
And there was a discusion about this Kaypro some time ago...
So, he has lurred about 20K people to look, for a total cost of about twenty dollars
spread out over the
years.
If 1 in 4 went go on to look at his store, then his cost is about 10 cents per hundred
viewers!
even at a 1 in 10 a hundred viewers is still less than what Google costs.
He is a power seller so he is doing an ongoing business based on those eyeballs of at
least $1k or more
per month to offset the ~$1.50 per month in listing fees to keep it going.
What I want to see is the "Declined" offers!
The other Bob.
4:30 p.m.
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:36 -0500, Bob Bradlee wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:14:33 +0100, Rik Bos wrote:
He's banned me from making offers, after I offered $100 and $105 for it.
Gordon
He trying to sell this thing since oct. 2006 more
then 20305 people looked
at it.
And there was a discusion about this Kaypro some time ago...
So, he has lurred about 20K people to look, for a total cost of about twenty dollars
spread out over the
years.
If 1 in 4 went go on to look at his store, then his cost is about 10 cents per hundred
viewers!
even at a 1 in 10 a hundred viewers is still less than what Google costs.
He is a power seller so he is doing an ongoing business based on those eyeballs of at
least $1k or more
per month to offset the ~$1.50 per month in listing fees to keep it going.
What I want to see is the "Declined" offers! 
5:35 p.m.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:36 -0500, Bob Bradlee wrote:
Hmm, I wonder what he'd do if a lot of people who didn't seem related,
but maybe all read this mailing list, put a $1 "best offer" on it.
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:14:33 +0100, Rik Bos
wrote:
He's banned me from making offers, after I offered $100 and $105 for
it. He trying to sell this thing since oct. 2006 more
then 20305
people looked at it.
And there was a discusion about this Kaypro some time ago...
So, he has lurred about 20K people to look, for a total cost of
about twenty dollars spread out over the years.
If 1 in 4 went go on to look at his store, then his cost is about
10 cents per hundred viewers! even at a 1 in 10 a hundred viewers
is still less than what Google costs. He is a power seller so he is
doing an ongoing business based on those eyeballs of at least $1k
or more per month to offset the ~$1.50 per month in listing fees to
keep it going.
What I want to see is the "Declined" offers! 
5:43 p.m.
I'm game :)
On 2/17/09, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:36 -0500, Bob Bradlee
wrote:
Hmm, I wonder what he'd do if a lot of people who didn't seem related,
but maybe all read this mailing list, put a $1 "best offer" on it.
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:14:33 +0100, Rik Bos
wrote:
He's banned me from making offers, after I offered $100 and $105 for
it. He trying to sell this thing since oct. 2006 more
then 20305
people looked at it.
And there was a discusion about this Kaypro some time ago...
So, he has lurred about 20K people to look, for a total cost of
about twenty dollars spread out over the years.
If 1 in 4 went go on to look at his store, then his cost is about
10 cents per hundred viewers! even at a 1 in 10 a hundred viewers
is still less than what Google costs. He is a power seller so he is
doing an ongoing business based on those eyeballs of at least $1k
or more per month to offset the ~$1.50 per month in listing fees to
keep it going.
What I want to see is the "Declined" offers! 
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