25 Mar
25 Mar
10:54 a.m.
He is not. They actually don't have any real stock. They list a ridiculous
price hoping they can find the item (or know of someone who has stock) and
drop ship it. This guy probably has a lead on the item given the short
shipping time. The difference between their cost and your price is their
profit. Most of the sites you see online listing stuff (especially w/ ask or
call us for pricing) are just middlemen without a warehouse. I tried to buy
a Proliant part from one of these guys last year. Supposedly had two in
stock and had to just bring them from his warehouse. Two months later
nothing. Thank goodness for eBay money back guarantee.
-Ali
10:56 a.m.
Rofl,
If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
micropolis 5"25 ....
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213
2:27 p.m.
Bill,
How much is the guy asking and for what?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/25/2021 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote:
Rofl,
If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
micropolis 5"25 ....
I would gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for
that price.
bill
3:40 p.m.
It's a 240MB SCSI hard disk, they are asking about ?1,600 which is probably more than
$2,000.
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Bill,
How much is the guy asking and for what?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/25/2021 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote:
>> Rofl,
>>
>> If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
>> micropolis 5"25 ....
>
> I would gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for
> that price.
>
> bill
>
>
5:29 p.m.
On 3/25/21 5:27 PM, Richard Pope wrote:
Bill,
??? How much is the guy asking and for what?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/25/2021 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
1700 quid for an old SCSI disk.
bill
On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk
wrote:
Rofl,
If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
micropolis 5"25 ....
I would gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for
that price.
bill
26 Mar
26 Mar
1:37 p.m.
On 2021-03-25 15:15, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote:
And that's the right thinking ...
Everybody, who has dozens of old hard drives in the basement,
doesn't have to worry about retirement anymore ;-)
Rofl,
If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
micropolis 5"25 ....
I would gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for
that price. 
25 Mar
25 Mar
3:16 p.m.
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
Guy
4:16 p.m.
Guy,
Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for
my IBM 100MB SCSI drive from the 1990s.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/25/2021 5:16 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
Guy
4:40 p.m.
On 3/25/21 4:16 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
Guy,
??? Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for my
IBM 100MB SCSI drive from the 1990s.
This isn't unusual. Commercial mission-critical parts often go for
huge markups. If the maintenance spec for a given piece of equipment
says "this is the drive that you need", then the sky's the limit.
Consider that calling in a 3rd party service outfit to install the drive
won't be cheap either.
In a hobbyist/surplus market, the drive might bring $30 on a normal day.
--Chuck
5:21 p.m.
Well, if there is no cost to asking that amount, why not? It's an
inefficiency of Ebay that things can stay up there for years, but that
is as it is.
On 3/25/2021 7:16 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
Guy,
??? Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for
my IBM 100MB SCSI drive from the 1990s.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/25/2021 5:16 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
Guy
6:56 p.m.
On 2021-Mar-25, at 5:21 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Well, if there is no cost to asking that amount, why
not? It's an inefficiency of Ebay that things can stay up there for years, but that is
as it is.
It's been enough years I don't remember when I first saw it, this has been listed
for 4-5 years or more:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-VARIAN-DATA-MACHINES-620-L-100-COMPUTER-62…
26 Mar
26 Mar
2:06 a.m.
You can see the history if you click "see all revisions" you can see it has
been there since at least December 2015 so five, going on six..
Dave
G4UGM
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On 2021-Mar-25, at 5:21 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Well, if there is no cost to asking that amount, why not? It's an
inefficiency
of Ebay that things can stay up there for years, but
that is as it is.
It's been enough years I don't remember when I first saw it, this has been
listed for 4-5 years or more:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-VARIAN-DATA-MACHINES-
620-L-100-COMPUTER-620L100-620-L100/311466122329
1:02 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
The better questions are:
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to Germany?
(This is what Ebay Germany tells me!)
So I absolutely agree with Ali concerning stock non-availability and the
seller just being a broker.
Christian
1:24 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:20AM +0100, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he
ship to Germany?
Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they don't want to take money
from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
I note they ask ?260.00 for "Economy Delivery (Economy Int'l Postage)" to
the Netherlands "between Wed. 31 Mar. and Fri. 16 Apr". That's quite the
markup on a bit of bubblewrap, a Jiffy bag, and a ?7 stamp.
2:11 a.m.
On 26/03/2021 08:24, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they
don't want to take
money
from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
Well eBay will want the
seller to make a refund if the buyer complains,
and location doesn't make any difference there. In fact it would make
return postage more expensive (at the seller's expense). For a drive of
this quality, as a seller, you'd celarly want it back if the transaction
went pear-shaped :-)
I note they ask ?260.00 for "Economy Delivery
(Economy Int'l Postage)" to
the Netherlands "between Wed. 31 Mar. and Fri. 16 Apr". That's quite the
markup on a bit of bubblewrap, a Jiffy bag, and a ?7 stamp.
I think I'd want a tiny bit more wrapping for a hard drive than just a
bit of bubblewrap. I know SCAN and eBuyer do just bubblewrap them, wrap
a mailer around them and send them off, but when I sold drives on eBay I
always sent them out in a foam-padded box with a cut-out. Then again I
had access to those for nothing and I wasn't sending out hundreds a day.
I do have some RD5x drives and I'd probably want to shift the excess
(assuming there is any excess after I get around to testing them!) but
I'd be really reluctant to ship those at all. I have no idea how much
shock-proofing they would need to withstand the 1.5m drop that the
parcel carriers all quote!
Antonio
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1:36 a.m.
The seller is also describing it as "refurbished", one of these days I am going
to ask one of these sellers what refurbishment they do. The seller also has a 2.5"
HDD for ?1,200, 2 left and 190 sold, can't imagine they sold for that price ?
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
The better questions are:
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to Germany?
(This is what Ebay Germany tells me!)
So I absolutely agree with Ali concerning stock non-availability and the seller
just being a broker.
Christian
1:44 a.m.
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the good
cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
rich!
On 3/26/2021 3:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
The seller is also describing it as
"refurbished", one of these days I am going to ask one of these sellers what
refurbishment they do. The seller also has a 2.5" HDD for ?1,200, 2 left and 190
sold, can't imagine they sold for that price ?
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Subject: Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -0000, you wrote:
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
The better questions are:
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to Germany?
(This is what Ebay Germany tells me!)
So I absolutely agree with Ali concerning stock non-availability and the seller
just being a broker.
Christian
5:54 a.m.
On 3/26/21 4:44 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
Rob,
??? Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the good
cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
I have brand new, in the static bag RZ28's in the hot swap case
(don't know what it is actually called) that I have offered to
sell in the past. Never had an offer over $10. It ain't worth
the time, gas and effort of taking them to the PO for that.
bill
8:14 a.m.
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
good
cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
No,
Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time
things will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. generally work). If
it works great they just made enough money to cover their entire inventory of refurbished
"whatever". If it doesn't they are just out the cost of the shipping which
as someone pointed out was about 7 Euros.
Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I believe) form a
seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" off of eBay. Each
drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 for UPS ground. Given that the
total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I went ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller
tried refunding just the price of the drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever
scam and would work on most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H
is "non-refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25
to have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back guarantee -
eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste.
I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that?s about it.
-Ali
9:23 a.m.
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Subject: RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
Yes, that is my suspicion that they don't do anything at all, that is why one day I am
going to take the time to ask them what they do to refurbish them, just to see what they
say. I seem to remember asking once and not getting a reply, hardly surprising!
Regards
Rob
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
of the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
good cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads
and then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
No,
Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time
things
will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. generally
work). If it works great they just made enough money to cover their entire
inventory of refurbished "whatever". If it doesn't they are just out the
cost
of the shipping which as someone pointed out was about 7 Euros.
Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I
believe) form a seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" off
of eBay. Each drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 for
UPS ground. Given that the total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I went
ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller tried refunding just the price of the
drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever scam and would work on
most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H is "non-
refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25 to
have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back
guarantee - eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste.
I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that?s
about it.
-Ali 
10:41 a.m.
For HDDs, "refurbished" probably means FORMAT'ed.
In the old days, it sometimes meant a LOW-level format.
SSTOR ("Speed-Store") and SPINRITE (Gibson's) "REFURBISHED"
drives.
For other things, it probably means plug it in and see if the power
indicator comes on.
Maybe even wipe it off with a damp rag.
Maybe some isopropanol to scrub off the "NFG" that somebody had written on
it with a sharpie.
OR, "refurbish" gets the FRY's definition. Just sell it again. If it
comes back, substitute another until the customer gets one that works.
Put the bad one back on the shelf, and keep selling it until some customer
doesn't go to the effort of bringing it back.
Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
11:10 a.m.
On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 10:41 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
According to the OED: 1) Remove the rust from, burnish, polish up (a
sword, armour, etc.); 2) Clean up, renovate, revive, give a new look to
(something dirty, faded, or old).
I think "give a new look to" is what some of these sellers have in mind;
"renovate, revive" maybe not so much. But removing the rust from a hard
disk might not be what buyers expect.
11:22 a.m.
> Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy N. via cctalk wrote:
According to the OED: 1) Remove the rust from,
burnish, polish up (a
sword, armour, etc.); 2) Clean up, renovate, revive, give a new look to
(something dirty, faded, or old).
I think "give a new look to" is what some of these sellers have in mind;
"renovate, revive" maybe not so much. But removing the rust from a hard
disk might not be what buyers expect.
Yep.
Remove all of the unsightly "NFG" graffiti tagging.
So, there's not a lot of difference between FURBISH and RE-FURBISH.
"UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't been tried out.
Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it.
2:35 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:22 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
"UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't
been tried out.
Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it.
And 'TESTED' does not mean 'working'. If I power up a hard drive and
it sounds like a cat fed backwards through a lawnmower (aka a
headcrash) then I've 'tested' it. OK, it has failed the test in terms
of working, but....
30-odd years ago there was a chap at a radio rally (much the same as a
hamfest) with 2 piles of PC-type hard drives. One was 'tested and
working'. The other was 'untested'. What's the betting that most, if
not all, of the latter did not work?
-tony
12:57 p.m.
At 12:41 PM 3/26/2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
M-W says "to make lustrous" and "to give a new look to."
"Refurbish" is "to brighten or freshen up."
At Dell Outlet, for example, I think they call a computer "refurbished" even
if it never left the warehouse - for example if someone custom-ordered
a PC and then failed to pay or take delivery - that's a new computer
but now it's refurbished and for sale as-configured.
- John
27 Mar
27 Mar
1:20 a.m.
Bob,
It is a joke from the Airplane movie. Shirley you jest! I told you
not to call me Shirley! Shirley is substituted for surely.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 4:08 PM, Robert Harrison via cctalk wrote:
Who is Shirley? Yes, it surely has run its course.
Sent from my iPhone
Robert Harrison
bobh at tds.net
On Mar 26, 2021, at 4:11 PM, Glen Slick via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?Shirley this thread has run its course already
5:44 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 21:11, Glen Slick via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Shirley this thread has run its course already
I just wanted to tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you.
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26 Mar
26 Mar
11:56 a.m.
Ali,
You are probably correct but it was just something that i have done
in the past to get a HDD working by combining two to make one. Just my
two cents. Anyone want to buy a used, I believe it stills works, ANTIQUE
and COLLECTABLE 100MB SCSI 1 HDD for say $1,000,000 OBO?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 10:14 AM, Ali wrote:
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
good
cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
No,
Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time
things will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. generally work). If
it works great they just made enough money to cover their entire inventory of refurbished
"whatever". If it doesn't they are just out the cost of the shipping which
as someone pointed out was about 7 Euros.
Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I believe) form a
seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" off of eBay. Each
drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 for UPS ground. Given that the
total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I went ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller
tried refunding just the price of the drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever
scam and would work on most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H
is "non-refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25
to have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back guarantee -
eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste.
I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that?s about it.
-Ali
12:01 p.m.
My offer is $0.01, but only if you pay shipping. Hard to believe you actually got a
serious offer. HaHa
Sent from my iPhone
Robert Harrison
bobh at tds.net
On Mar 26, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?Ali,
You are probably correct but it was just something that i have done in the past to get
a HDD working by combining two to make one. Just my two cents. Anyone want to buy a used,
I believe it stills works, ANTIQUE and COLLECTABLE 100MB SCSI 1 HDD for say $1,000,000
OBO?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 10:14 AM, Ali wrote:
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
good
cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
No,
Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time
things will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. generally work). If
it works great they just made enough money to cover their entire inventory of refurbished
"whatever". If it doesn't they are just out the cost of the shipping which
as someone pointed out was about 7 Euros.
Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I believe) form a
seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" off of eBay. Each
drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 for UPS ground. Given that the
total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I went ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller
tried refunding just the price of the drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever
scam and would work on most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H
is "non-refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25
to have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back guarantee -
eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste.
I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that?s about it.
-Ali
2:15 a.m.
On 26/03/2021 08:36, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
The seller is also describing it as
"refurbished", one of these days I am going to ask one of these sellers what
refurbishment they do.
I'm planning to put the lid back on the RZ26, carefully pull back the
label I had to destroy to get to the hidden screw and then polish the
top surface of the case. I'll ship in an antistatic bag too, just to try
to recreate that "BNIB" experience. I'll probably pitch it at ?1100 for
a quick sale.
The seller also has a 2.5" HDD for ?1,200, 2 left
and 190 sold, can't imagine they sold for that price ?
Supply and demand. As the number of units remaining drops, the price
goes up. This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Antonio
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3:30 a.m.
On 26/03/2021 09:15, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
This, for example, is clearly his last piece of
"blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Possibly a test post to check how the system works. Years ago, eBay had
a "test" category, for "items not for sale" or some such description.
Anyone remember the "air guitar" that sold for something like $500?
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
3:55 a.m.
On 26/03/2021 10:30, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
On 26/03/2021 09:15, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
wrote:
Well looking at his other items, there are several similar posts. Also
(to veer back towards being on-topic) a DCL User's Guide.
--
Antonio Carlini
antonio at acarlini.com
This, for example, is clearly his last piece of
"blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Possibly a test post to check how the system works.? Years ago, eBay
had a "test" category, for "items not for sale" or some such
description. Anyone remember the "air guitar" that sold for something
like $500?
12:09 p.m.
Antonio,
Wow! About $30 for one sheet of paper. Is gold woven into it?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 4:15 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
On 26/03/2021 08:36, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
The seller is also describing it as
"refurbished", one of these days
I am going to ask one of these sellers what refurbishment they do.
I'm planning to put the lid back on the RZ26, carefully pull back the
label I had to destroy to get to the hidden screw and then polish the
top surface of the case. I'll ship in an antistatic bag too, just to
try to recreate that "BNIB" experience. I'll probably pitch it at
?1100 for a quick sale.
The seller also has a 2.5" HDD for ?1,200, 2
left and 190 sold, can't
imagine they sold for that price ?
Supply and demand. As the number of units remaining drops, the price
goes up. This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc"
paper: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594
(or maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Antonio
12:23 p.m.
Supply and demand. As the number of units remaining
drops, the price goes
up. This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or maybe
it's French paper ...) :-)
The ordinary paper that consumers use throughout their everyday life such
as newspapers, books, cereal boxes, etc., is primarily made of wood pulp;
however, the paper should be composed of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent
linen. This is what gives it its distinct look and feel. The security
thread, and portrait or numberal watermarks should be already built into
the paper when it is received. A 6mm wide 3-D security ribbon should be
woven into the paper. Tilt the note back and forth while focusing on the
blue ribbon. You will see the bells change to 100s as they move. When
you tilt the note back and forth, the bells and 100s move side to side.
When you tilt it side to side, they move up and down.
The sheet of paper should be large enough for multiple images, which can
be cut apart later.
25 Mar
25 Mar
3:59 p.m.
At least it is a physical item and not a two pixel tiff called "black and
white", offered as an NFT for ?1M.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:45 PM Rob Jarratt via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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