Museum dumping commodore machines

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"These are not striped!"   LOL!

These kinds of photographs, ePay ads and sellers really piss me off. What a horseshit way to advertise, try to sell and photograph. Hardly any info at all ('cept you know how badly yellowed the A1k sitting upside down is). Just some lazy {bleep}s who don't care about much of anything "bundling" all this stuff up together. ARRGGGHHH!

Who are they expecting to sell this stuff to? Looks like they want it to be a terminal to terminal kind of deal and are probably thinking they're sitting on a gold mine of sorts. If there's no real local interest, good luck getting anyone in America to pay $350-$600 to have that shipped via NAVL or Forward Air! Course, there's still some Florida folks that don't mind driving out in anticipation of finding a diamond in the rough  ;-)  

Hmmm... there *might* just be a Phoenix board inside that A1000... LOL!

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The last oscilloscope I bought off ePay was a pile of "untested" junk (understandably gambled, but...). Let me translate un-tested... "we're fairly certain it's broken and do not know how to fix it. In fact, we wouldn't know how to test it even if it did work, but we really know nothing about anything we sell and happenstancedly come across, therefore: no guaranties expressed, written or implied".  lol

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$177 for a pallet of cool computing gear. Yep. These guys are masters of 'not for profit' alright  ;-)  

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Moving arcade machines to and fro the country, I use NAVL (North American Van Lines) and I'd say on average, a 400 pound machine costs about $350-$400 to ship. After you send one machine, they typically will do a half price deal on the second. And we're talking about them handling this antique/collectible stuff with kid gloves! Blankets, shrinkwrap, etc. Never, ever had a complaint from them. They would LOVE to move something already bundled up on a pallet I bet. Be a lot easier on their end anyway. Just remind them to bring a pallet jack!

In the future, I'd recommend looking into NAVL (Michelle Bianchi) to be precise, if you're getting $1k quotes from UPS Freight. She's the lady you'd want to get ahold of for this kind of move and a sweetheart that doesn't "overcharge".

Terminal to Terminal via Forward Air (the drop off and you pick up at the airport) would have been even cheaper. $250-$300 average if it's already on a pallet...

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That's so cool you guys went in on the package deal like that. Very neat that the community gets a chance to see what that was all about. Kudos and good luck! I've already PM'd Wowzer about any A1000 peripherals in hiding. And good luck -D- on your A2000 and whatever goodies you might find in one of those babies!