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[James Rice]

Teo Zenios wrote:

>
>I agree with what was said above completely.
>
>The only thing that will harm the hobby long term is if people pay very
>little or nothing for classic machines so there is no reason for the owners
>to sell them instead of scrapping them. Most people who blow allot of cash
>on any hobby and get bored will sell the collectable back to other hobbyists
>eventually. Overpaying on a public auction site just gets more people
>digging through their collection to turn up more of the same for sale.
>  
>
>A waste to me would be a private collector having multiple copies of a
>desirable and somewhat rare machine/part/manual/etc and sitting on it for a
>few decades.
>


Exactly!!!  If it is worth the effort of placing on ebay, VCM or any 
other venue, then that is doing the hobby a service regardless of 
ultimate price.  If percieved value of an item falls below the cost of  
placing it up for sale, it becomes not worth the effort and will result 
in more equipment sent to the land fill or to the scrapper. 

As for the hoarding issue, sometimes I collect several examples of one 
machine.  Sometimes it's for spare parts, for display of a different 
version of the OS, for development or for future trade/sale to finance 
my own collection.  The ones I do have multiple examples are mostly 
older Macs and Mac clones that have no "real" current value but I 
couldn't stand to see a perfectly good box being dumpstered, or NeXT 
slabs - not exactly rare but they will get that way eventually and so 
will be good trade goods or resale items in the near future.  As for 
manuals,  I think they should be scanned into pdf's for furture 
availability as downloads.

James

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