[Coco] Another 'rare' opportunity on eBay

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 June 2010, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>I think it originally sold for 99.95. The problem with that darned thing
> is it will only work with the Tandy Hard Drives Specified, so you'd have
> to find one of those little beasts as well and hope it is still in
> working order. I think Roger's drive pack would be a better fit for my
> money, or one of Cloud-9's items,,,

The only one I ever saw they wanted $129.95 for.  And it was a sasi, not 
scsi, which is why you could only use their $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ drives with 
it.

But they of course wouldn't/couldn't tell you that because they thought sasi 
was a mouthy womanchild. ;-)

>-john
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>From: "Paul F" <fiscap0768 at yahoo.com>
>To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:12 PM
>Subject: [Coco] Another 'rare' opportunity on eBay
>
>
>While this is truly a semi-rare item in the CoCo community, the seller is
>clueless as to its true market value. How much did this thing retail for
>originally? This is the relisted-listing and when it didn't sell in the
>original posting for $120, the seller must have clearly thought that it
>didn't get enough exposure the first time around since it didn't sell at
>such a generous price. Of course, the natural thing to do in that case is
> to relist it for the same ridiculous price.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/Tandy-Radio-Shack-26-3145-Hard-Disk-Controller-64KCoCo
>-/270597637678
>
>Maybe someone out there in the community is desperate to add one of these
> to their collection - too ridiculous of a price for me.
>
>
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