[Coco] possibly selling white coco & mpi

[Mark McDougall]

Darren A wrote:

> Maybe not.  This white 64K CoCo 1 sold for $41.00 a few weeks ago:
> A white MPI (item #260457783331) just sold for $37.00.

I really don't understand how the whole retro collectors scenes work in 
terms of dollar worth for goods. It seems to me that variances are so wildly 
random that it's impossible to predict what you're going to pay or be paid 
for anything these days! :O

There are numerous instances - as no doubt many of you are aware - of 
otherwise pedestrian items going for ridiculous amounts of money on the odd 
occasion. Likewise, I've been frustrated on more than one occasion to see 
completed auctions for items I've been looking for going for pittance.

Explain to me how a garden-variety NES with a couple of controllers and a 
garden-varity NES zapper can have 21 bids and go for _more_ than a 
mint-in-box, never-used Ice Blue N64 (AUD$80+)??? I picked up a NES - boxed 
no less - for AUD$7 a few years back, and even then I didn't feel like I was 
getting a bargain in any way... hell, I have about 5 of the things sitting 
in my cupboard at home!

A while back, somewhat notoriously a copy of a particular Amiga game went 
for something like $150 on eBay. My friend got all excited, knowing he had a 
mint-in-box copy of it. Of course in the ensuing days, more copies popped up 
on eBay and most ended with no bids at $5.

It's crazy, and I've given up trying to work it out. All you can really do 
is go by what it's worth to _you_.

Regards,

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