Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup

From	ahodgkin@gmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup
Date	2012-04-27 00:57 -0700
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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.

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.

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.

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.

> 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).

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.

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.

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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
      Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-24 06:08 -0700
        Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-24 19:36 +0100
          Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-25 08:37 -0700
            Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-26 08:49 +0100
              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
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-26 23:49 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-27 00:57 -0700
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-27 10:08 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 10:18 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 09:26 +0000
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-27 04:14 -0700
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 14:45 +0000
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 15:30 +0000
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-27 20:24 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 17:34 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 12:40 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 13:50 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-27 06:36 -0700
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 20:47 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 13:33 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 14:36 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 16:19 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 20:52 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 23:46 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-28 00:00 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 14:49 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 14:31 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 17:26 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-04-27 22:17 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 23:13 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-04-27 08:58 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Tennant Stuart <tennant@orpheus.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 18:01 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 18:28 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Tennant Stuart <tennant@orpheus.co.uk> - 2012-04-29 13:27 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-04-29 13:53 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Tennant Stuart <tennant@orpheus.co.uk> - 2012-04-29 23:36 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-30 06:06 -0700
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-30 15:15 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-30 15:59 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-05-01 01:01 -0700
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-05-01 10:24 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2012-05-01 18:47 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-05-01 23:27 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-02 19:40 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup John Kortink <kortink@inter.nl.net> - 2012-04-27 20:45 +0200
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup druck <news@druck.freeuk.com> - 2012-04-26 23:06 +0100
                Re: Acorn/Pace/ROOL Risc PC for sale - Cambridge or Wakefield pickup ahodgkin@gmail.com - 2012-04-30 06:09 -0700

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