On Dec 18, 2018, at 6:47 AM, JP Hindin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
https://www.elecshopper.com/vintage-computers.html I really would rather
these go to someone who needs them to complete a system than to the
destroyers of keyboards.
I am trying to get more of the vintage stuff listed. If you want to see
items as they are listed online, please turn on your RSS feeds.
https://www.elecshopper.com/rss/
How can you ask $75 for an untested Osborne keyboard?
Because the 'keyboard keids' will gleefully pay $75 for it. The market would bear
a considerably higher price and it appears Cindy is already discounting it - one likes to
think in the hopes a person who would connect it to an Osborne would purchase it. At home
we'd call this 'mates rates'.
While I respect your view point, and I similarly get flustered at the ridiculous prices
that our hobby now commands due to "retro is cool", I know you surely also
appreciate that a business is a business - and Electronics Plus is a business.
(I have no affiliation with EP personally, nor in fact have I ever personally purchased
from them, but am just a soul frustrated by ever growing prices and appreciate a more
reasonable price... for various values of 'reasonable').
- JP
Well said.
On another note, good grief! I just googled some stuff that I?ve been contemplating
letting go to make room for other things.
Zane