Museum dumping commodore machines

[blanning]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-Commodore-128-64-Peripherals-Museum-Surplus_W0QQitemZ260387994927QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item260387994927&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318


Looks like a 1000 on top, upside-down and backwards.  If only I were driving distance from there.

They did apple 2es and 2gss not too long ago.  They also have a mac+ and se auction running now.

brian

[save2600]

"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!

[tone007]

This kind of deal is for the serious only.  

I picked up more crap than that last week.  Quick U-Haul rental and drop it off in the garage.

Shame it's on the wrong side of the country.

[Matt_H]

Must not be a very good museum if that's how they're packaging up their preserved stuff :-)

Hopefully someone gives these a good home.

[aperez]

Blanning,

I've done business with computercorps recently, in fact last weekend I drove to Carson City from the San Francisco bay area to pick up forty Macintosh LC II and IIIs, which I'm reselling. Computercorps is a non profit organization who mostly sells hardware in order to bankroll their true purpose, which is to provide computers to underprivileged families in the Lake Tahoe/Carson City/Nevada Desert areas.

They're good folks and they don't really know what they've got if it's not fairly commodity PC hardware. I doubt anyone there knows much about how to test some of this older hardware. To some of the other posters, there's no need to be hostile.

[InTheSand]

You Americans get all the best deals with job lots of old CBM stuff!

Not a hope of ever finding anything like that here - would have all been imported and sold.

 - Ali

[blanning]

InTheSand wrote:
You Americans get all the best deals with job lots of old CBM stuff!

It only looks close compared to the pacific ocean.  It's still about 2000 miles away from here.  I've never seen a deal like this around here and don't expect to.  :-(

brian

[Ilwrath]

I expect there's deals like that down the eastern half of the country, too.  I imagine a lot of times these electronics donation centers simply dispose of or refuse to accept Commodore equipment because they don't know what to do with it.

Anyhow, why the hostility toward the sellers?  Don't people here WANT cheap hardware?   :roll:  

[Darrin]

aperez wrote:
Blanning,

I've done business with computercorps recently, in fact last weekend I drove to Carson City from the San Francisco bay area to pick up forty Macintosh LC II and IIIs, which I'm reselling. Computercorps is a non profit organization who mostly sells hardware in order to bankroll their true purpose, which is to provide computers to underprivileged families in the Lake Tahoe/Carson City/Nevada Desert areas.

They're good folks and they don't really know what they've got if it's not fairly commodity PC hardware. I doubt anyone there knows much about how to test some of this older hardware. To some of the other posters, there's no need to be hostile.

As they're doing it to fund a good cause then it's a shame that they don't realise that they could probably make more from it by breaking it up into individual lots.

[dougal]

I agree ...

It gives them a better chance of selling them .
They can prob make more money out of it .
It gives people a chance to know what they are buying.
You only buy what u want , not what you don't .

Darrin wrote:

As they're doing it to fund a good cause then it's a shame that they don't realise that they could probably make more from it by breaking it up into individual lots.

[jorkany]

These kinds of photographs, ePay ads and sellers really piss me off. What a horseshit way to advertise, try to sell and photograph.

So what should they do, open up the bundle and get somebody who knows something about antique computers to review each and every component?

Seriously, some of you people live in some kind of fantasy land. To these people it's probably just a bunch of old junk and they need to get it out of their warehouse. You don't want it, don't buy it. Maybe they just don't have the time to go through individual item they're selling and have 100 little sales, some of which might not sell, on Ebay. This way all it takes is one buyer and the whole problem is solved.

[recidivist]

 The hostility is because these bulk auctions  requiring committing  lots of money and time,truck pickup effectively shut out  99.99% of prospective buyers!

 Just like the Cincinnati  Public Schools computer auction of some years ago where  the Commodore and Apple systems were  sold only as  huge lots of "keyboards"(really the cpus, disk drives, and monitors SEPERATELY.
 The only people that wanted OR knew what the items were  had neither the money or storage to buy  three seperate job lots of say a 100 pieces each in order to put together systems.Oh yes, the various cables were tossed in yet another "lot".

 So the school system ended up PAYING for dumpsters and labor to throw away those C64s and Apples,

 MANY  students,parents,or members of the public would have bought  a complete set or two .

 Such bulk auctions are a way for administrators to claim they are recovering value from ex-School(government)(institutional) assests when they simply want it gone and consider the items worthless trash.Similar auctions dispose of many other items from cars to fence posts and most is sold for a fraction of true value to scrap dealers.I know of an old radio engineer's estate that was mis-handled  the same way ,and tens of thousands of  dollars in test equipment sold as a truckload lot for scrap metal!!!

[blanning]

One man's treasure is another man's trash. :roll:

My local goodwill won't take computers anymore.  I wonder if I could talk them into calling me instead.  Or at least telling those who call to call me.

brian

[T3000]

Hey! That Computer Corps is about 40 minutes from where I live.
Hmmm... (ponder, ponder...) nope, don't need it. Already have a small pallet of C=64 stuff as it is that I need to sort and unload...

[Fester]

I was browsing through the seller's other items. They have a Nicolet 445 for less than $50.

Linkedy-link

The same model appears here for almost $6000.00

Curiously enough, it seems to be the same picture...