My take is that the seller knows full well what it is,
and is hoping
people will think it is an Apple 1 (and judging by the questions at
the bottom, they do). People will then drive up the price to some
outrageous level. When they get it and realize it's just a //e that
someone threw in a wooden case (or maybe not even anything in the
Apple line), they'll get mad, but there's nothing they can do because
he described it accurately .....
I was just writing up the exact same comment. You just type faster then
me.
If the guy is selling computers on ebay, he knows enough to do some
googling on the items. An Apple 1 would be pretty obvious if he spent
just a few minutes looking for info about the stuff in the box.
Also, he mentions he looked in the box, but then didn't post pictures. He
plays it up as "I just don't know what this is", and still doesn't post
internal pictures.
About the only reason I see for that is he knows it isn't an Apple 1, and
like you said, is hoping people will bid it way up thinking they are
getting a steal. Which depending on what is in that box, has already
happened. $300 for an Apple IIe, even with drives and monitor is pretty
high.
-chris
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