[Coco] Someones Dreaming!

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:40 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:
>I may be missing something, but it looks like he's brought the opening
>bid down to a much more reasonable $.01.  The shipping costs are still
>$25 though.  The last CoCo 2 I bought I paid $3.00 for at a local thrift
>store less than a year ago.  Came with a pair of joysticks and a box of
>ROM PAKs, most of which I didn't already have.  The only way I could
>justify spending $25+ for a CoCo 2 is if all my others were lost in a
>fire or a tornado -- original box notwithstanding.


I am almost embarassed to say that two years ago I found a mint 
condition CoCo 1, gray-cased, for $5 at Goodwill.  I snatched it up 
and smiled all the way to the counter.  A year later I was cleaning 
out some CoCo stuff and trying to raise funds to keep the website 
fees paid, and listed that CoCo on ebay.  Some told me not to run it, 
but I took a chance anyway.

Other CoCo's were selling for hundreds at times, but even though I 
have a 100% feedback rating and 100+ score I think at the time, the 
auction flopped and I ended up having to sell it to the only bidder 
for less than $10.  This CoCo should have sold for a good chunk of 
change, but because you take what you get on Ebay, that's what I 
did.  Let this be a lesson... don't run your prized CoCo's on Ebay 
unless you're willing to give them away for free.