And $500 gets you...

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I never show the original email what is the item number you are talking 
about?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: And $500 gets you...


> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
>> > 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 ;)
>>
>> Well, they mentioned Christie's in the auction, which is why I
>> associated the two together...
>
> I only skimmed the auction listing.  In this case, this is one data point
> so far to prove my thesis that the Christie's auction was going to be a
> bad thing :/
>
>> I wonder if that quote I pasted above (assuming the same seller, which
>> seems likely) indicates that they finally ended up scrapping the
>> system.  It'd be sad, but with some people, it seems sanity is quite a
>> ways off...
>
> They probably did, but only because they were too stupid or indifferent to
> at least let someone just take it.  And then of course they use that to
> create an impetus to sell the manuals for a ridiculous sum (buy these
> manuals or we'll shred them!)
>
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