[Coco] Wow... Just wow... eBay CoCo 3 auction

[Derek]

I am in the same boat, over past few months have had to sell Atari ST, Amiga(s), Apple macs and a variety of other systems to keep food on the table and the coco 3 was last on the list along with my Atari 130 XE, also my very nice Tesoro metal detector had to go but think we are starting to see some things get better here, my wife brought up a good point in that I can get it all back again and half the fun in collecting is the hunt and finding those bargains or rare finds at the thrift shops and garage sales. We do e-bay sales and for past few years I have done it full time so am at the shops and sales all the time. 

I do hope things get better for you as well. 

Derek




On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:00 PM, Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
Derek,
You are not alone,
Recently I shut down my on-line store and was forced to literally blow out all my collection at almost insane prices, just to make rent last month. I didn't help when a guy on facebook just "didn't get it" and was trying to weasel cartridges out of me for 40 cents each and that included shipping to the us from Canada- I had more than one conversation explaining to him that Canada Post charges $13 to ship them to the USA. He is now turned around and selling them. I too had to sell both my CoCo3 and Floppy drive which Mark had made me and I cherished making CoCo videos on You-tube. I just thank God my last CoCo2 didn't sell and I still have my tape drive for that. It's kind of the same setup I had as a teen.
when things look up again, I will just have to bite the bullet and order everything from Mark again, I am done with dealing on e-bay- especially with e-bays new "brokerage" shipping that adds big money on shipping to Canada that goes right into Ebay's pocket,-that and the fact that 75% of all US sellers wont ship to Canada anymore.
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>The one that was for $199.95 or BIN was my auction. Myself and family have hit some hard times and it broke my heart to have to put it up on e-bay,>when Brian made the offer my wife saw it and she did not know I had put it up on e-bay, after 23 years of marriage she knows how much I enjoy the old>computers and the Coco most of all so she removed the auction and told me that we will be fine until our tax refund gets here.  

>So that is why it was removed after Brian made the offer.  

>Derek                           

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