Open-ended Apple "collection" on eBay

[Joe R.]

At 05:39 PM 7/14/05 +0000, Jules wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:52 -0400, James Fogg wrote:
>> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5217360547&
>> category=51046&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1
>> > 
>> > Somewhat interesting.  It's basically a computer recycler 
>> > that has decided to dump it's entire collection of Apple 
>> > stuff, including Lisa's, ]['s, and it seems a lot of recent 
>> > stuff like iMac, G3's, etc.
>> > 
>> > Located in "Northeast USA".  Shipping is $750.
>> 
>> Yeah, I think I know who this is. I'm a little pissed as I've bugged
>> them for the vintage stuff before and they act like it's gold, don't
>> want to talk about it, yet sometimes scrap it.
>
>Yep, one of my local recyclers is like that. I think they assume that
>anyone who appears to be knowledgeable about what they have is
>immediately going to take their junk and make a fortune selling it. Tell
>them that it's worthless in financial terms and they think you're lying;
>tell them that you absolutely will not sell it on and they still think
>you're lying. I haven't figured out a way of dealing with that class of
>people yet :-(

   I haven't either.  They usually try to sell on E-bay and then find out
that there's no money in it or else it's too much work so they give up and
just scrap everything :-(

    Joe