16 Jun
16 Jun
5:38 a.m.
Awesome indeed. The seller says 'They were acquired for recycling
purposes but we have decided to sell as is to free up space in the
warehouse for other inventory.' Surely they mean 'Selling these because
the $4300 we think we'll get for them eclipses the recycled materials'
value by at least a factor of ten.' And that's a good thing, in my opinion.
On 16/06/2012 8:51 p.m., steven stengel wrote:
Not my auction, but awesome!
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7:34 a.m.
I dunno Mike, I don't think I can fault this guy for this. (and I can
usually fault someone for ANYTHING) I think $61.00/ea is quite good
price for a Pet, in any condition.
If I had the spare cash lying around, I'd buy the lot, perform any
necessary repairs, and dole them out to the collector community at
$100/ea, and still end up giving people good deals.
-Dave
On 06/16/2012 05:38 AM, Mike van Bokhoven wrote:
Awesome indeed. The seller says 'They were
acquired for recycling
purposes but we have decided to sell as is to free up space in the
warehouse for other inventory.' Surely they mean 'Selling these because
the $4300 we think we'll get for them eclipses the recycled materials'
value by at least a factor of ten.' And that's a good thing, in my opinion.
On 16/06/2012 8:51 p.m., steven stengel wrote:
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Not my auction, but awesome!
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7:46 p.m.
True, that was pretty much my point - these things would be worth much
more as they are than as scrap, and it's a good thing for computing
history. I was just surprised that the seller would even try to suggest
that it's only for space reasons that the machines are being sold
complete, I wasn't being critical of anything he was doing. Definitely
though, there'd be a lot of work involved in selling each machine
individually. If I wanted to sell these without too much effort, I'd
probably go through them all and identify any runners, give them a clean
and list them individually. Non-runners could be grouped by type and
sold as lots. Both his way and mine are better than them being shredded
and sold for next to nothing. No-one wins that way.
Mike
On 16/06/2012 11:34 p.m., Dave McGuire wrote:
I dunno Mike, I don't think I can fault this
guy for this. (and I can
usually fault someone for ANYTHING) I think $61.00/ea is quite good
price for a Pet, in any condition.
If I had the spare cash lying around, I'd buy the lot, perform any
necessary repairs, and dole them out to the collector community at
$100/ea, and still end up giving people good deals.
-Dave
On 06/16/2012 05:38 AM, Mike van Bokhoven wrote:
Awesome indeed. The seller says 'They were
acquired for recycling
purposes but we have decided to sell as is to free up space in the
warehouse for other inventory.' Surely they mean 'Selling these because
the $4300 we think we'll get for them eclipses the recycled materials'
value by at least a factor of ten.' And that's a good thing, in my opinion.
On 16/06/2012 8:51 p.m., steven stengel wrote:
> Not my auction, but awesome!
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> 330748180850
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5:22 p.m.
In article <4FDC5400.7020305 at fenz.net>,
Mike van Bokhoven <mike at fenz.net> writes:
Awesome indeed. The seller says 'They were
acquired for recycling
purposes but we have decided to sell as is to free up space in the
warehouse for other inventory.' Surely they mean 'Selling these because
the $4300 we think we'll get for them eclipses the recycled materials'
value by at least a factor of ten.' And that's a good thing, in my opinion.
I don't think it will sell for nearly anywhere near that price, but
I've been wrong before.
There isn't much recycle value in these because you have to *pay* to
have the monitor recycled. Once you subtract monitor fees from the
small amount of precious metals that are in the motherboard and
keyboard, there really isn't much left IMO. The case is steel and you
might get some money from that, but not much.
If you dribbled these out on ebay one by one in order to not make the
market drop, I'd guess it would take you 5 years or so to sell them
all off. 70 PETs is a *lot* of PETs. They're big, they're heavy and
expensive to ship.
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18 Jun
18 Jun
12:15 p.m.
On 06/16/2012 04:22 PM, Richard wrote:
There isn't much recycle value in these because
you have to *pay* to
have the monitor recycled.
I did offload a CRT - just the tube - at an electronics recycling event
recently, but I suspect that wouldn't scale to 70 of them :-)
They're big, they're heavy and expensive to
ship.
And, IIRC, prone to various electronic faults - some of which are
time-related, whether the machine is used or not. Not to mention that the
metal cases seem to enjoy rusting if they're not stored well.
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