[rescue] Possible Octane and/or Ultra 1 group buy

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:23:06PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Scott Newell wrote:
> > 
> > >It looks like sealed bid though.  Is there enough demand for 20 units here?
> > 
> > Any thoughts on what it'd take to score an Octane?  $100, $200, $300?
> > 
> 
> I have no idea.  I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that a 250, SE,
> 512 MB, 2 x 4GB is worth about $1100US on the retail market.  Since this
> a bulk "rescue" buy, we could get away with much less on a per-unit
> cost.  It's possible we could even score one (as above) for about $300
> to $400.  I'm guessing, I have no idea what it would ake to get a lot of
> these.

It might be worth that much, but it doesn't look hard to score a
similar config for in the $600 to $800 range.
 
> When I sell my house I'll have a few bucks for investments like this,
> but until then, I got nothin'...



-- 
Joshua D. Boyd