[PLUG] Used motherboard wanted

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Mar 27 10:42:01 UTC 2003


On 27 Mar 2003, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:34, Geoff Burling wrote:
> 
> > I must not be too unreasonable in my price expectations, because
> > since then I found it trivially easy to locate similar makes of
> > used computers for less than Goodwill wanted -- shipping included!
> 
> I've noticed that too; I don't know why they're so expensive.  Sometimes
> you can find a SCSI cable or an IBM keyboard though.

Because the people at Goodwill have no clue as to what a computer is 
really worth these days.  They assume that since they had to pay a lot for 
theirs years ago, it must be worth a bit.  Not true any more.






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