Cross listing Ebay items - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jun 1998

At 08:26 PM 6/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Or the $1500 Lisa 2?  That one went from $300 to $1500 in one bid, but it
only takes one sucker, err, collector. 
The auction sites are just like any other web site: you don't
know what's really happening, such as if the transaction actually
takes place at that price.  Certainly the auction sites do not
list their failure and debt-collection rates.

I think the auction offers and supposed final bids are interesting
to hear - they're at least as interesting as the brag-of-the-week
...
 from those lucky Silicon Valley and Redmond
thrift-store cruisers who appear to be filling a U-Haul for $50 every weekend.

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
...
  Hell, I'd rather fix rams with my teeth the way
the old Basque herders
 used to than a Packard-Bell computer. 
At least us sheep ranchers understand your jokes.

- John