On 1/29/19 12:45 PM, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote:
Many times I find free to be far to expensive for most people
including myself (think postage/shipping/prep time.)
Aside from stuff like museum donations, I have found giving things away
for free is usually a pain. In my experience,
Sorry, but no. It?s grossly offensive for things that work perfectly well and
that someone might actually find useful to go to scrap. There?s tons of useless
and broken junk that our civilization can mine for scrap, we don?t need to
actually destroy things that have actual value.
If someone is
On 01/29/2019 05:38 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
Space is money. Organization is money. Information is money.
Advertising / listing for sale takes time and money. And it all only
gets worse if the item is heavy, dirty, or leaking.
One of the most impressive (videos of) ""organization th
At 07:13 PM 1/28/2019, dwight via cctalk wrote:
>When looking at the 45 minutes, also consider the various overheads involved.
>They are in business. Time is money.
Space is money. Organization is money. Information is money.
Advertising / listing for sale takes time and money. And it all onl
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> If someone isn’t able to sell for the price they’d like to get, maybe the
> market won’t
> If someone isn’t able to sell for the price they’d like to get, maybe the
> market won’t bear that price and they need to lower it. Scrapping should be a
> course of last resort, a way to recover value from something you can’t even
> give away, not a competing outlet for goods.
But in this ca
Sorry, but no. It’s grossly offensive for things that work perfectly well and
that someone might actually find useful to go to scrap. There’s tons of useless
and broken junk that our civilization can mine for scrap, we don’t need to
actually destroy things that have actual value.
If someone isn
all the 3000 stuff too? sorry to hear that Al.. back in the 80s would visit
him nice guy glad to hear he is,still alive. ed#
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From: Al Kossow via cctalk
To: cctalk
Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2019 07:49 PM
Subject: Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers
On 1/26/19 5:4
It was thus said that the Great Grant Taylor via cctalk once stated:
> On 1/26/19 6:26 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> >Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do research
> >and gain experience.
>
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
On 1/26/19 5:40 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> Is Larry at Crisis computer still around?
He is in Sacramento. Most of what he had was scrapped 15 years ago.
A large number of Bay Area people were involved in saving what could be saved.
I ended up with a lot of 9000/300 stuff. I didn't go
Is Larry at Crisis computer still around?
Jay used to know him too back years ago.
Ed#
In a message dated 1/26/2019 6:35:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
> unknown when you are at an auction
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
> unknown when you are at an auction for something else. There's only so
> much self education you can do on a smart phone 10 minutes before the
> auction.
Start now with the research. You can gain quite a lot knowledge from
the
I spoke with Mike, last year, around the time they were closing their
doors. I'm fuzzy on the details, now, but dimly recall something about
them possibly trying to hold on to much of the stock, despite losing
the warehouse, with the possibility of reopening in some shape or
form.
With that said,
On 1/26/19 6:26 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do research
and gain experience.
That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
unknown when you are at an auction for something else. There's only so
much s
> I'm referring to times when I have absolutely no idea what is
> reasonable.
Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do
research and gain experience.
--
Will
On 1/26/19 6:02 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
With that attitude, you will lose a lot more deals than you win.
...
Don't be a cheapskate, basically.
I think I came across wrong.
I'm not trying to be a cheapskate. I have no objection at all to paying
reasonable amounts that the mar
> I would think knowing a minimum scrap value plus some reasonable
> handling fees would be for things when conducting such deals.
With that attitude, you will lose a lot more deals than you win.
You have to beat scrap price by a *substantial* amount. You need to
convince the dealer (or scrapper)
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Jay West via cctech
wrote:
>
> Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I
> appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care
> of directly with Jesse and I'm happy.
>
> We have to understand, as others
Glad to Hear Jay - I guess the timeshare systems were about the only
thing I ever saw those board sets in.
ok~To refile my slightly prior message under perhaps a better title
I have one foot in each HP community The real production one and the
Collection of vintage HP
Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I
appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of
directly with Jesse and I'm happy.
We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for
stuff at a price that can k
On 1/25/19 10:35 AM, Jay West via cctech wrote:
We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up
for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the
parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know
we can't pay typical full price
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