23 May
2005
23 May
'05
9:07 p.m.
And if so, can you explain what he's smoking?
http://www.clelsplace.com/eli/
The press release attached to this link is dated May 21, 2005. Oddly, it
appears he did the same thing in 2002:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,104772,00.asp
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Also see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
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23 May
23 May
9:15 p.m.
New subject: Also ... RE: Anyone know this guy!?
Maybe he'd consider donating parts of the collection to MARCH.
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Subject: Anyone know this guy!?
And if so, can you explain what he's smoking?
http://www.clelsplace.com/eli/
The press release attached to this link is dated May 21, 2005. Oddly, it
appears he did the same thing in 2002:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,104772,00.asp
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
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9:24 p.m.
Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
And if so, can you explain what he's smoking?
http://www.clelsplace.com/eli/
The press release attached to this link is dated May 21, 2005. Oddly, it
appears he did the same thing in 2002:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,104772,00.asp
Looking at his ebay sales history, he is moving less than $100/day,
probably closer to $50 long term. Some days he clears 20 items, others
0/1/2/3. Let's be generous and say $100/day is sustainable. For his
$200K asking price, it would take 2000 days, or 5.5 years to recover the
investment. If he gets the $1M he hopes, it would take 25 years at
$100/day to recover the investment.
Of course, it would be a lot longer than that, since there would be
storage costs and taxes to be paid. That is a lot of work and a long
time to get back to break even.
9:49 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone know this guy!?
Or if the retro computing phase dies like quite a few collectable hobbies
you will never get the initial investment back and have to pay landfill
charges to dump all those games.
Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
> And if so, can you explain what he's smoking?
> http://www.clelsplace.com/eli/
>
> The press release attached to this link is dated May 21, 2005. Oddly,
it
appears he did
the same thing in 2002:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,104772,00.asp
Looking at his ebay sales history, he is moving less than $100/day,
probably closer to $50 long term. Some days he clears 20 items, others
0/1/2/3. Let's be generous and say $100/day is sustainable. For his
$200K asking price, it would take 2000 days, or 5.5 years to recover the
investment. If he gets the $1M he hopes, it would take 25 years at
$100/day to recover the investment.
Of course, it would be a lot longer than that, since there would be
storage costs and taxes to be paid. That is a lot of work and a long
time to get back to break even.
24 May
24 May
3:05 p.m.
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Jim Battle wrote:
Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
And you don't think he's figured this out? Why do you think he's trying
to find a sucker to take it at $199K?
My guess is he's descended from old P.T. ;)
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And if so, can you explain what he's
smoking?
http://www.clelsplace.com/eli/
The press release attached to this link is dated May 21, 2005. Oddly, it
appears he did the same thing in 2002:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,104772,00.asp
Looking at his ebay sales history, he is moving less than $100/day,
probably closer to $50 long term. Some days he clears 20 items, others
0/1/2/3. Let's be generous and say $100/day is sustainable. For his
$200K asking price, it would take 2000 days, or 5.5 years to recover the
investment. If he gets the $1M he hopes, it would take 25 years at
$100/day to recover the investment.
Of course, it would be a lot longer than that, since there would be
storage costs and taxes to be paid. That is a lot of work and a long
time to get back to break even. 
4:25 p.m.
And you don't think he's figured this out?
Why do you think he's
trying to find a sucker to take it at $199K?
At the same time, his E-bay feedback shows that he's still buying
large quantities of old games. Maybe buying more than he's selling.
I suspect his "$199K" auction is to attract publicity for his other
auctions, mostly.
Tim.
4:49 p.m.
At 07:25 PM 5/24/05 -0400, Tim wrote:
How much do you think that publicity stunt is costing him in listing fees?
Joe
And you
don't think he's figured this out? Why do you think he's
trying to find a sucker to take it at $199K?
At the same time, his E-bay feedback shows that he's still buying
large quantities of old games. Maybe buying more than he's selling.
I suspect his "$199K" auction is to attract publicity for his other
auctions, mostly. 
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