On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, j...@cimmeri.com <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote:
> > On 10/1/2016 3:21 PM, N0body H0me wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ccl...@sydex.com >>> Sent: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 11:12:02 -0700 >>> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >>> Subject: Re: ka... ching! >>> >>> On 10/01/2016 08:27 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: >>> >>> But, like airplanes and boats, this looks like only a rich person's game. >>>> >>> ... >>> >>> The game has changed, obviously. We are in an era now when folks with >>> too much money and spare time and narcissism want to buy and sell and >>> display toys rather than play with them. >>> >>> Looks like it's time to get out of this racket. >>> >>> --Chuck >>> >> Yeh. Once we started seeing Classical Computers that could be considered >> 'investment grade', prices just got ridiculous for everything. Everyone >> with an old computer in their closet started seeing dollar-signs. >> > > From where I sit, the big prices seem mostly centered around Apple 1's and > this Twiggy Lisa. Have any other computers have gone astronomical like > these? > > - J. > There are a couple of sellers in particular who routinely ask insane prices, which I think distorts the economy: 'If that guy can ask a gazillion dollars/pounds/euro for X, so can I." I think few people actually look at *completed* sales, i.e. what people really paid for something. On one hand, it's a shame stuff ends up on ePay where it becomes the target of 'feeding frenzy' behaviors - but it's not going to the scrappers, which is good. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
