I think things like this hurt his sales a lot more:
Q: Does it incl the CDROM? Oct-18-07
A: Did you actually read the auction description? Did you even read the auction title? It states: Atari 1040STe with 4 megabytes of RAM, TOS 2.05, and a High-Density disk drive. Nowhere in the auction does it say that the monitor, hard disk drive, or CD-Rom drive is included.
Well you gotta get a little tried of the dumb questions some people ask. This one takes the cake too. A CD-ROM drive on a Atari STE? They never came with one, and the only way you can add one is to buy an extremely expensive and rare SCSI host adaptor (ICD's the Link 2 or similar product, $100+ value) and external CD-ROM drive. Plus there was no pic or anything mentioned about a CD-ROM... But he should of tactfully replied with my above points instead of the way he did...
Also as far as the $500 A4000, I think that with a nice box it is worth that much, especially if it is in mint shape...
Stand alone dirty, yellowed A4000's go for $250+ easy on the bay.... :rtfm: