[Coco] NT :is it just me?

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Frank, I never said you paid too much, I , I just said I thought nobody 
would buy them at that price, thats all. I have found that with a bunch of 
my stuff, that is the case, and what I think will go at high prices, nobody 
even look at. Its a tricky thing to price the stuff out. I go by the prices 
usally on e-bay and add about 10% to what I paid for it, but obvously, the 
prices jump almost daily. I have had 3 perfectly good CoCo 1 's up for 
between $10- $20 with box etc and no one has touched them, yet some on e-bay 
go for up to $50 in the box. I have had 16K CoCo2's for $5 and 64K for $9 
and no one has touch them, but they can go for also up to $50 in simular 
condition on e-bay. Now, Out of respect to Mark and Boisy, I wont sell CoCo 
3's, but Just in the past week, some have gone for as little as $3 and as 
high as $50. There seems no ryme or reason to the price jump except that 
obvously the peson who paid over $100 for the last 5 issues of rainbow has 
no Idea that the DVD project is in the works, and obvously doesn't read 
these fourms, or doesn't care, but my point is that that alot of the sellers 
are now expecting the high prices, and where does it all end? now I could 
shut down the online store and make a wack of money now on e-bay, especialy 
with my last year of rainbow magazines, (buy the way, on Average I only make 
less then $100 a month from my store, but its really only there to help with 
the hosting fees), but where does that leave me, or the people who want the 
odd game or cartridge, and a lot of people don't like the hassel of e-bay. 
Thats why I have been looking into making new hardware, although not cheap, 
the floppy drives are the easist to start with, as most parts except the 
cables and case are "Off the Shelf". I have been talking with electonic 
builders to design and market a "New" multi-pak, but so far the cost of the 
components is way more than worth the trouble (latest "Per Unit" cost was 
about $120 for just the parts.)
>
>
>The prices on Ebay are cyclical. Right now it's on the high side of the
>cycle. When the prices get to where they are now people stop buying and
>the prices come down.
>
>I do have to admit to getting a kick out of reading your comments about me
>spending to much for the dual drives in May. Considering that single drives
>were going for what you were asking for two I was getting a bargin!! :-)
>
>Frank
>
>PS - good luck selling the drives.
>
>
>On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:58:37PM -0700, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> > Is it just me, or have the prices really skyrocketed on E-bay? I mean
> > Really, the sellers are knowing it also. The "Buy it now" prices for 6
> > issues of the Rainbow -$75. I am in one auction for a CoCo2 and some
> > floppies -it states "low reserve". His "Low" is $99.99 and there is one
> > buyer that is really spending a lot of money. A 4-color printer 
>-Starting
> > $75!!! I thought last winter when I was trying to just get floppy disk
> > drives for my online store was expensive at $100, and I never could get 
>a
> > 501! Now, I am trying to re-stock my store and it seems impossible to 
>get
> > anything for a half decent price. SO I am taking Some matters into my 
>own
> > hands! Next week marks the 1 year anniversary of the CoCo lounge, and as 
>a
> > result of not being able to get any more floppy disk drives in for a 
>half
> > decent price, I have been wheeling and Dealing with a few Third party
> > Manufacturers and I will be offering custom made Floppy drives with atx
> > Power supplies,custom cases, Truly re-manufactured 5 1/4" and new 3.5"
> > drives. All good quality components and with a 90 No questions asked
> > exchange policy. The web page is up at
> > http://www.coco.8bit-micro.com/custom.htm, but no links from the main 
>site
> > or up yet. You have the first crack. Once we get some volume sales , the
> > price will come down, but with the prices on ebay lately, they might be 
>in
> > the right "Ballpark".
> >
> >
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