On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: Josh Dersch > > > Wish the seller would part it out (and ship). > > So, send the seller an eBay message saying you're interested in some of the > items, and you're in contact with other collectors who are interested in > other > items, but: you don't want to buy the entire lot; and suggest to the seller > that they will i) sell it faster, and ii) get more money in total, if they > split the lot up, and are willing to ship things. (Assuming, of course, > that > it doesn't sell as-is.) > I had been chatting with the seller after Doug sent out his original mail; I expressed interest in a few items and was going to work out having stuff shipped but the seller stopped responding very quickly. To be fair, I didn't try following up more than a couple of times (I was on vacation at the time, so there's my excuse.) I just assumed she'd gotten better offers. I suppose I could contact her again but after seeing the eBay auction I'm not really feeling it. - Josh > (Speaking of getting more money, did you all see the PDP-11/34 system that > included a couple of RL01's and some RM03's? It only drew a single bid, and > went for $2K. I was vaguely interested in the RM03's, but didn't want to > deal > with the RL01's, so I didn't bid. Wonder how many others made similar > calculations? And I wonder if they buyer will actually use all of it, or > put > part of it - perhaps the RL01's or the RM03's - in a corner to gather dust? > Wuz gonna send them a message of the sort I suggested above, but it sold.) > > Noel >
