Dealer watch spot (COMPLETE ATARI PACKAGE)
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:23 amWell, my opinions on dealers in Dunedin are pretty low, knowing their behaviours (strategies?) at fairs, garage sales, charity stores, recycle stores etc for buying.
But pisstolpete who is selling the Atari 1040STFM at the moment :
http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/vintage/auction-464870402.htm
for $150 start/reserve, $175 buy now (and previously with $120 start, and $250 BN) knows this doesn't work because I posted on the last auction listing for it that I had tested it at the auction house the day he bought and listed it and it wasn't going. I only had 5 minutes, but couldn't get a viewable picture on the monitor DIN port, nor several discs to load (just to listen for sound or see if the jumbled picture changed). Maybe the TV out was okay? The disc drive was certainly wasn't reading, and the keyboard, mouse & monitor was the grimiest I've seen a computer.
Perhaps someone else could ask if it's going for the asking price, especially since it's described as 'COMPLETE'.
I had an away/book bid on this for $22 (only wanted the games, not the printer or non-functioning computer), so no doubt he only bid a dollar more. The problem with dealers (and it hasn't been in Dunedin till now with respect to computers) is once they have a taste for something they can sell for money, it's all on. Although this is only the fourth computer I have been aware of from there in 5 years. The only others being a ZX81 that I was outbid on, and a non-functioning Apple II clone I bought a good few years back, and the IIe's I got last year (which still had auction numbers on them).
pisstolpete also sold me the few Apple IIes for $210 (I don't know how I missed these at auction house, they may have been mis-described in the online catalog). On arrival I could see the keyboards greasy (not noticeable from the trademe photos at the time), and lots of keys on all of them all jammed up and stuck down. This would have been obvious to the seller and were not described as such on the auction. Worse is a person who professes to collect one thing yet sells other items without respect for describing accurately or in detail in the way they would demand for for what they collect themselves.
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But pisstolpete who is selling the Atari 1040STFM at the moment :
http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/vintage/auction-464870402.htm
for $150 start/reserve, $175 buy now (and previously with $120 start, and $250 BN) knows this doesn't work because I posted on the last auction listing for it that I had tested it at the auction house the day he bought and listed it and it wasn't going. I only had 5 minutes, but couldn't get a viewable picture on the monitor DIN port, nor several discs to load (just to listen for sound or see if the jumbled picture changed). Maybe the TV out was okay? The disc drive was certainly wasn't reading, and the keyboard, mouse & monitor was the grimiest I've seen a computer.
Perhaps someone else could ask if it's going for the asking price, especially since it's described as 'COMPLETE'.
I had an away/book bid on this for $22 (only wanted the games, not the printer or non-functioning computer), so no doubt he only bid a dollar more. The problem with dealers (and it hasn't been in Dunedin till now with respect to computers) is once they have a taste for something they can sell for money, it's all on. Although this is only the fourth computer I have been aware of from there in 5 years. The only others being a ZX81 that I was outbid on, and a non-functioning Apple II clone I bought a good few years back, and the IIe's I got last year (which still had auction numbers on them).
pisstolpete also sold me the few Apple IIes for $210 (I don't know how I missed these at auction house, they may have been mis-described in the online catalog). On arrival I could see the keyboards greasy (not noticeable from the trademe photos at the time), and lots of keys on all of them all jammed up and stuck down. This would have been obvious to the seller and were not described as such on the auction. Worse is a person who professes to collect one thing yet sells other items without respect for describing accurately or in detail in the way they would demand for for what they collect themselves.
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