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| From | "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup |
| Date | 2012-04-27 10:18 +0100 |
| Organization | None |
| Message-ID | <5286e89f74dave@davenoise.co.uk> (permalink) |
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<5505155.3336.1335513466633.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yntt13>,
<ahodgkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:49:28 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> > A short auction with a daytime midweek finish and collection only are
> > all limiting factors.
> After work midweek finishes are often recommended on eBay so I don't
> really buy (ho ho) that argument.
Fairy nuff. My experience (from a feedback base of around 800) is that a
Sunday finish at around 22.00 gives the best results. But then I don't do
much buying/selling of RISC OS things.
> The collection issue is perhaps the main one, but then given how cheap
> the whole community seems to expect things to be now, a > £30 postage
> cost for a £51 pound item seems a bit ludicrous.
No reason it should cost anywhere near 30 quid to post. But then it gives
the choice of the whole country - not just those who live close to you
> There's a 2-slot backplane on eBay for £12.99. I've seen Ethernet
> podules go for upwards of £17 just last week. Implication is it would've
> been cheaper to rip it apart and sell it for the parts. I could've sold
> things like Impression Publisher and the dongle for probably almost as
> much as the whole machine's gone for.
Well yes. Individual parts are always worth more than the sum. But these
will all be available by post.
> Then there's this news thread, most of which seems to consist of me
> trying to sell my old machine, hoping to make some money back, but which
> generated a stream of rather odd/aggressive replies some of which got
> rather personal.
Can't comment on that.
> > it's not a particularly well specced machine.
> For a Risc PC, it's a well specified machine with some relatively
> unusual additions (MIDI card, working 486, Morley SCSI and spare third
> slice).
A 486 card is 'worth' near zero. A 586, different. But either really just
a curiosity. And the same really with SCSI these days. And I say this as
one with two RPCs used all the time both with SCSI cards. Can't comment on
MIDI.
> Anyway, like I say, lesson learned; there's no community interest and
> eBay isn't what it used to be. The poor guy who bid £50 was outbid by
> one other person at £51 with - and I was watching the auction countdown
> - ONE SECOND left to go. So that's just a cynical attempt to game the
> whole thing, snatch the auction from someone who had the guts to bid
> early and to make sure that the absolute bare minimum price was paid. So
> between this thread and that auction, there's a little bit of the modern
> day RISC OS community laid bare.
Hmm. You seem to have missed the whole idea of Ebay. Perhaps you should
have listed it with a BIN, if you don't like auctions and what those
implie.
> Such is life, and I'll be remembering that when I'm stood on the ROOL
> stand for several hours tomorrow getting paid nothing as usual for my
> efforts! So much for karma.
Think of the poor sods still trying to make a living out of RISC OS. ;-)
--
*Your kid may be an honours student, but you're still an idiot.
Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@rowing.org.uk> - 2012-04-23 22:25 +0100
Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 23:36 +0100
Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-24 08:58 +0100
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Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-25 08:37 -0700
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Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-04-26 09:56 +0200
Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-26 01:50 -0700
Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-26 14:21 -0700
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Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 20:47 +0100
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