Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Mon Mar 21 15:50:56 CST 2005


Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:

>I'd just call the stores and ask: http://locator.goodwill.org/
>
>--- Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
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>>William Layer wrote:
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>>> - While eBay prices are to be taken as a general mix of legtimacy,
>>>      
>>>
>>ignorance, greed, stupidity and outright scamming, Goodwill prices aren't
>>that much more 'helpful' either. Unless they have a good 'picker' doing the
>>pricing, Goodwill and their ilk have a mission to sell old junk for the
>>cheap. We've all had impossibly lucky finds at these places..
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>>
This may be soon in the past ... In  Alberta,Canada the goverment is 
taxing NEW computers ( and other
electronic equipment ) for recycling and paying out $$$ for the old 
stuff.  While  most  of  the stuff
is PC's thet soon will dry up quickly.
Ben alias woodelf




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