Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> Besides, Goodwill isn't the place to buy classic computers, its the
> place to buy old stuff other people didn't want.  They may have a
> classic computer, but I'm not going to give them a classic computer
> price, because Goodwill doesn't specialize selling in classic computers.
>   They specialize in selling old stuff other people don't want, and
> they've treated it as such..... they probably know nothing about it,
> they haven't tested it beyond possibly trying to power it up.  They got
> it handed to them buy someone that pulled up in a car, asked the person
> if they wanted a receipt, plopped it into a cart, and later someone shot
> it with a price gun and plopped it on a shelf next to the pile of cheap
> cameras, and then 2 customers picked it up shook it, and a third put a
> hair dryer on top of it, because the hair dryer was in the way of them
> looking at a Lloyd cassette deck.

Since Goodwill gets offered so much of this stuff and then refuses because
they don't think they can sell it, I was offering a suggested solution (to
a GW representative of sorts) on how they might do it.  If you want to see
old computers sold for cheap through Goodwill, why not offer solutions
also?

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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