21 Jan
1999
21 Jan
'99
5:46 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
So I guess the problem is that Information Wants To Be
Free, and the
Internet Will Liberate Us, and Shopping Online is Phun, and all that,
except when its efficiency seems to work against you. Look on the
bright side: if it weren't for the Net, eBay and this list, fewer
people would be offering these sorts of goods, and most of us would
never hear about them.
Maybe... One of the cool components of the hobby is FINDING the bargain.
These announcements do nothing but raise the prices eventually paid for
these items. I guess that makes sense if your already sitting on a cache of
Altairs and 5100s and are happily watching prices go through the roof. I'd
do everything I could to help that little market develop...
And *anyone* who's not afraid of the stale breath of satan can go to ebay
and search for 'old computers'.
Ok, I promise to say no more on this subject... wait.... Anyone see these
pictures of Marvin's wife at http:\\...
*just kidding* ;)
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
21 Jan
21 Jan
6:03 a.m.
At 11:46 AM 1/21/99 -0500, <dogas(a)leading.net> wrote:
Maybe... One of the cool components of the hobby is FINDING the bargain.
These announcements do nothing but raise the prices eventually paid for
these items.
Of course. Finding bargains is fun. Recognizing gems in the rough
amidst a sea of PC clones in a warehouse os sale items is fun.
Relatively few items find their way to eBay, in the grand scheme of things.
This is a tempest only if you live in the eBay teapot. I do not
recall any reports of yard-sale Altairs with signs saying "Just $4000,
20% less than eBay."
- John
7:01 a.m.
New subject: Ebay Posts was Re: Ebay: Very Old IBM Model 705 Tube-type Logic Module
Mike wrote:
Maybe... One of the cool components of the hobby is FINDING the bargain.
These announcements do nothing but raise the prices eventually paid for
these items. I guess that makes sense if your already sitting on a cache of
Altairs and 5100s and are happily watching prices go through the roof. I'd
do everything I could to help that little market develop...
On the other side of that coin, if I were trying to attempt to gain a
fortune in computers now, I would do everything I could to stop the free
flow of information. Yes, I do have a sizeable collection of computers,
etc. Yes, it is gaining in value. Yes, I still get *given* computers that
are worth money. And no, they are not for sale although I will occasionally
do trades.
One thing I find interesting is that I rarely find anyone talking about
their finds on ebay; why not?
So far, the "share the information" people continue to outnumber the "keep
it a secret so I can benefit" people on this list. If ebay is the only
source of computers for some people, they need to work at developing other
sources rather than try to stop the sharing of information.
At any rate, I choose not to participate further in these discussions about
the "morality" of posting to this list items for sale on ebay as they are
pointless and do nothing to *promote* this hobby. I will continue to post
items that *I* think might be interesting to members of this list.
5:23 p.m.
New subject: Ebay Posts was Re: Ebay: Very Old IBM Model 705 Tube-type Logic Module
At 10:01 AM 1/21/99 -0800, Marvin wrote:
At any rate, I choose not to participate further in these discussions about
the "morality" of posting to this list items for sale on ebay as they are
pointless and do nothing to *promote* this hobby. I will continue to post
items that *I* think might be interesting to members of this list.
Yes, please do! I like to look at a lot of the E-bay items even if I
don't care to bid on them or spent time searching E-bay for them.
Joe
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