[Coco] NT :is it just me?

[Frank Pittel]

I'm sorry for misquoting you. I meant no insult by it. My point was that when
you listed the drives you considered the price to be high. When I saw the price
that you were asking vs. what the dual drive were going for on ebay I thought I
was getting them cheap! (btw the drives work great) I think that you're right
about a lot of the people buying coco related hardware not having any idea of
what you and others are also selling it for.

I think the idea of putting together new drive, multipaks, etc is a great idea.
After all they're no longer being made and the case of things like floppy drives
what's out there won't last forever. Even once common items like multipaks are
becoming rare and expensive on ebay.

Frank
 
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:12:50AM -0700, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> 
> 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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