> On Dec 18, 2018, at 6:47 AM, JP Hindin via cctalk <cctalk@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
