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If I remember rightly I got mine, 2 disk drives, colour screen, unadulterated keys and working for about $100 or so. I'm glad I'm not looking for one these days.

Even then, I think ron's offer of $405 was very generous! I'd have expected 80-200 for an untested unit without PSU.
I guess it does have the monitor and drives though.

Aside from the custom key caps is there something unusual about this PAL //e that justifies the high bidding? Even the Duodisk is badly damaged, and it's a Taxan monitor.

Yep 100% don't agree with Ron's bid. The thing is though, trademe warns you when you're within 15% of reserve. (or at least it used to)

Ron has stayed underneath reserve, so perhaps he's just testing the water and not actually seriously offering $400. I've gotten curious before and done this myself.

I try not to do this anymore, otherwise it can inflate the vendor's sense of the item's worth.

A few years back I was doing that, and for some reason (perhaps a bug) that 15% message didn't appear and I ended up buying something.
So I don't do that anymore.

I think it gives sellers an inflated expectation of value as well, so items keep getting relisted at unrealistically high reserves.

It also prevents them from lowering it to a respectable value until it gets relisted. Unless they can keep removing top bidders (but most people probably don't know how to do that)