[rescue] "My city had been torn down, replaced by online auctions. Hey, ho , way to go - eBay" (with apologies to Chrissy Hynde...

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

>Comdisco is selling *their* surplus, not reselling
>someone elses... You do know what Comdisco does,
>right?

Yes, and that's exactly the point. I can, in theory (if I have disposable cash) go to an auction and pivk up stuff cheap enough to resell. 

>Yes, and you could turn around and maybe get $750-800
>*reliably*. But, when your area runs out of dot-flops,
>the your source of systems is gone.


Then I find another. change becoems.

>Well, that's great - if storage space is *free* for
>the next 5 or 10 years... Most of us need to justify
>the space requirement.

Not the point, really. I'm saying tht all stock has value. My assumption in the response was that I was dealing with a more or less professional reseller. Space requirements tend not to be quite as stringent for people who run a warehouse/storage system. Sorry if my assumption does not make a Universal Truth :)


>Anomolies... My Vic 20 will always be worth something
>between $0 and $5.

I never said to save everything. the difference between a vic20 and a pdp11 has something to do with utility, expandability, "hackishness", and numbers.

>Well, this is one wave of Ultra 30s - she had about 3
>dozenb in July, and they sold out. Then they got 10
>more off lease, so they are for sale. I fully suspect
>more Ultra 30s will come to market from them in the
>next few weeks. And then there is Electrorent, GE
>Capital, and others - these machines are approaching
>the end of their useful life (for these vendors) as
>they become harder to rent out and accumulate in their
>warehouse (space = $$).
  

The point remains that there will be lulls, and there will be people with a few hundred dollars who don't want to wait, don't care to search for a place to contact for "if and when they have more".

Mike's U5's aren't going to go back up to 850 in "market" value, perhaps. But they will go up as long as you can only find 1 or 2 listings for similar items on ebay at a given time. 

I simply do not belive that- since "space = $$" comdisco is going to start an ebay auction house. (I'd love to do that for a company, but that's an aside) you don't just take a warehouse and toss up a few listings and it magically goes away, after all.


-Christof