Housing collections

[Richard]

In article <43B3837B.7040507 at oldskool.org>,
    Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>  writes:

> I got over the pricing stuff a while ago (I snipe all my bids 
> automatically using a service); what irks me currently is the wild range 
> of prices.  There are outfits who list things like somewhat uncommon PC 
> and Mac components (drives, cables, a ROM, etc.) for $150 or more -- 
> excuse me??  I guess 'old' equals 'goldmine' to the stupid people, and 
> it bugs me to no end that you can't talk them down.  Ebay stops being 
> convenient at that point.

Yeah, I have noticed this too.  There's also the mentality of "rare"
== "expensive".  A Q-bus A/D converter board was recently listed with
a minimum bid of $250 (!).  When noone bid, he relisted it at minimum
bid of $200 and still noone bid.  It hasn't been relisted again, I
wonder if he sold it elsewhere for a "best offer" price.

Then I see things like *pieces* of computers being offered for prices
higher than entire systems sell on ebay and its only a "buy now" item
with an expiration date of 90 days.
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