$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV. Nice payday on the poster. I going to speculate that it's specific to the Silicon Valley one because of the recent hype of the TV show.
Sellam On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:36 AM John Foust via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > At 09:53 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > >No wonder the prices on vintage computer stuff has been going through the > >roof on eBay over the past couple years. > > If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985, > that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation. > > A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people > were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve. > > I have a bunch of old Amiga posters up there now. I thought they'd > fetch nice prices but they've seen little interest so far. > > I have other R@RE items I'll list. Who knows how they'll do. > > I have a NewTek Digiview digitizer that is the populated circuit board. > The chips have not been sanded to remove their numbers, nor is > it potted in epoxy like all the retail production units. > > I saw a recent sale of a Digiview-labelled parallel port gender-changer > that went for $30. Go figure. I have at least one. > > At 10:06 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > >Holy crap, someone actually paid $810 for it? > > They paid almost another $200 on top for the eBay global shipping program > and custom duties, too, as I had said I'll only ship to the USA. > > - John > >
