IF you need these old vintage parts, PLEASE grab them before the keyboard keids do!

[Zane Healy]

> 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