[Coco] Ok folks, found another one...

[J.P. Samson]

On Apr 26, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Tom Seagrove wrote:
> $9.99 Buy It Now for a Deluxe Joystick, not too bad so far.  Then we  
> add the
> $22.75 for Priority Mail.  That is easily less that 2 lbs total so  
> should
> only be $4.80 plus a little for packaging. $8.90 if using a FREE  
> flat rate
> box.

Interestingly, it is only $19 to ship from Florida to Canada.  Is  
there some kind of automated eBay postage calculator at work here that  
is messed up?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> ] On
> Behalf Of Rogelio Perea
>
> ...this is yet another one of those crazy Ebay listings with  
> outlandish
> expectations in terms of the initial bid and/or the buy-it-now price.
>
> What I found interesting about this auction post were the pictures  
> of the
> CoCo hooked up to a big screen TV. Pretty neat, it'd be something to  
> play
> D&D (as shown) in such a setup:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260233869880

Well, I guess this person doesn't really want to auction off the item,  
but wants to sell it at a fixed price, though he's willing to go a  
little cheaper, thus the slightly lower starting price.  This item has  
been relisted several times now, by the way, and no takers.  It does  
come with the computer, disk drive, controller, tape drive, joysticks,  
mouse, game cartridges and disks.  $140 isn't completely outrageous  
for that.  Heck, I'd expect the disk drive with controller to go for  
nearly half that if it was a separate item.

There are plenty of other outrageous buy-it-now items on eBay right  
now.  How about $80 for a one-button CoCo mouse?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-TRS-80-Color-Mouse-26-3025_W0QQitemZ190216713962QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

-- JP