On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Bill Sudbrink wrote: I think a lot of the bidding wars are just psychological. "I gotta win at any price", when, if they'd just back down and look around a little more, they'd find the exact same thing at 1/10th the price. There are also a lot of newbies who think most of the 80's home computers are collectors items that are going to substantially appreciate in value. (For the most part, they won't.) When I'm on E-bay, or whatever, I have my own idea of what a fair price is (certainly not a bare TRS-80 Model 1 for $700 bucks).

At 11:48 AM 6/27/00 -0400, you wrote: Badly done shill bidding? Perhaps the 0 feedback guy is an ebay streaker, you know one of those folks who bids outrageously and then vanishes. --Chuck