Auctions are interesting. I used to go to a local auction once a week. It is interesting the junk that people will buy while at the same time the quality stuff goes cheap. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jinx" To: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: [OT]:PC Auction > Last night I went along to an auction of 500 lots of computers. > Hoped to pick up maybe one or two cheap low-end Pentiums > for messing about with. The lots on offer ranged from 120MHz > to 600MHz PII machines. all either 1998 or 1999 models, with > 2-3GB empty drives, CD and sound cards (no speakers). Some > of them were marked as faulty and non-starting. I thought the > bids would be around NZ$150 (US$65) to possibly NZ$750 > (US$315). In total amazement I saw bids of NZ$2000 (US$840) > and really started to think "hey, am I missing something ?" But > no, these PCs were exactly as described in the catalogue. Even > obviously broken PCs with missing parts were getting premium > prices (which attract 10% premium + 12.5% tax), pieces of crap > even I would consider tossing in the bin. Compared to what was > on offer in the local second-hand paper (www.t&e.co.nz) and > even what could could be built up from new retail parts, I just > couldn't believe how high the bidding went. Anybody else seen > this ? I'm having trouble understanding why on earth antiquated > machinery that's had day-in-day-out use for 4 years would fetch > such prices > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu