And $500 gets you...

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> A set of manuals?
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5181524752
>
> No, guess again.  There's a reserve on those.
>
> Another example of where the Christie's auction helped to make people
> think that things are worth *way* more than they really are.

I don't know that we can go blaming Christie's for every over-priced eBay
manual we see from now on (though it may make us feel better to do so ;)

> And my favorite quote from his auction:
> "most of these system were destroyed due to the nature/technology of the
> system and fear of them getting into the wrong hands"
>
> DONT LET THE TERRISTS GET THER HANDS ON TEH BIG COMPOOTERS!!!
>
> I'd love to see these people do a little bit of research on stuff
> they're listing on ebay, instead of just pulling info out of their ass,
> or what they heard on some cable news network.  At the very least, they
> could say "I don't know anything about this" instead of making stuff
> up....

I think these are the same people that were trying to sell the actual
computer a few weeks ago and were asking for an unlikely sum for that too.
Even though I explained to them a couple times they should be happy if
someone offers to take it away without charging them, they still insisted
on finding a buyer.  Duh.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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