Open-ended Apple "collection" on eBay

[Jules Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:29 -0400, Ronald Wayne wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Their job is recycling goods.  They rarely want to spend the time or
> money to sort through the equipment properly, test it, clean it up,
> track down customers, and support it if something goes wrong after the
> fact.

Absolutely - which is why it's frustrating when they won't sell in bulk
to someone who'll pay a little over scrap value and haul away a big pile
of 80's junk at a time, say. I think the mentality is that they *might*
miss out on something good that way, and so even though they don't
understand the classic scene at all they rather see the whole lot
scrapped than for someone else to take it off them. Bloody annoying :-(

Grrr - *people* !! ;)

cheers

Jules