12 Oct
2000
12 Oct
'00
4:57 a.m.
Let's see, how would you name a meeting where
several buyers went
home with new toys at acceptable prices (a TRS 80 M1 with expansion
box, printer and all dust covers (!) at USD 30 isn't realy overpriced)
and some pricepushing dealer went home with their entire stock ?
I just Wish I could have seen his face when he was packing his stuff back.
I hope he swore to never make it back.
Francois
12 Oct
12 Oct
5:22 a.m.
Let's see,
how would you name a meeting where several buyers went
home with new toys at acceptable prices (a TRS 80 M1 with expansion
box, printer and all dust covers (!) at USD 30 isn't realy overpriced)
and some pricepushing dealer went home with their entire stock ?
I just Wish I could have seen his face when he was packing his stuff back.
I hope he swore to never make it back. 
13 Oct
13 Oct
2:51 a.m.
> >Let's see, how would you name a meeting
where several buyers went
> >home with new toys at acceptable prices (a TRS 80 M1 with expansion
> >box, printer and all dust covers (!) at USD 30 isn't realy overpriced)
> >and some pricepushing dealer went home with their entire stock ?
> I just Wish I could have seen his face when he
was packing his stuff back.
> I hope he swore to never make it back.
I don't think that my prices were THAT bad! We
made a lot of people
happy, got rid of a few boxes of old class handout reprints from Dr.
Dobbs, and found homes for a few items (PCJrs, Portfolio, etc.). At the
end of the day, I sold my entire remaining stock that I had brought down
to a colleague who is starting a collection (OSI, N*'s, Compupro, etc) for
a preset price. He still owes me one more pizza.
No, I didn't talk about yours. In fact, this is a real example how
VCF may perform a good trade of for all - while in the exhibition
are had a display of the Little Board (and it's designer for futher
information) I found one, NOS, including all documentation among
your goodies -and at a real reasonable price.
Isn't that a success story ?
Gruss
H.
--
VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen
http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
5:06 a.m.
No, I didn't talk about yours. In fact, this is a
real example how
VCF may perform a good trade of for all - while in the exhibition
are had a display of the Little Board (and it's designer for futher
information) I found one, NOS, including all documentation among
your goodies -and at a real reasonable price.
Isn't that a success story ?
Something that you would find at FEW events:
Wanted to ID the exact version of something; the original designer of it
was present; while he was ID'ing it, got paid the full asking price.
Very unusual:
Several times during the two days, people paid MORE than the asking price
for stuff!
Left over from one of our advertising campaigns, we had a bunch of
lenticular printing "Save Your Data From Extinction" dinosaur rulers. My
associate was giving them out to any children that came by. Parents kept
wanting to PAY something for them!
Suggestion:
a table/bin/dumpster for people/organizations that will accept
"obsolete" stuff, where people can bring and dump^H^H^H^H donate stuff
that they don't want that they can't or don't want to sell. Accept
"absolutely anything that is computer related". How much would it cost
for the hauling/dump fees for the residual items that truly nobody wants?
I shall return.
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Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
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