And $500 gets you...

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 01:12 -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Another example of where the Christie's auction helped to make people
> > think that things are worth *way* more than they really are.
>
> A while ago I was discussing EBay-like prices with people (for old
> computer stuff). Their argument was that EBay prices reflect the true
> state of the market and the true worth of classic computer items.

I've posted pretty lengthy essays on this subject before.  Suffice it to
say, eBay is certainly *NOT* the "market value", but only one data point.

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