YetiSeti wrote:I can't see me winning anything against berensen. With his shotgun approach to bidding, he sure puts a lot of bucks into his shots.
There is no way in hell that Apple IIe is worth $1309. It's not even worth half that. For the amount it's gone for, I would expect it to have
at least two pricey "unusual items". The 3.5" with card PLUS something else like a decent RAM expansion or a CPU accelerator or a Z80 card, or an original mockingboard, or a
working ProFile, or a CFFA3000 etc... or the 3.5 controller being the hard to find "superdrive" card.
But it's a standard IIe, with a few spares and a 3.5" drive and a collection of mostly copied software. It doesn't even have a super serial. $150 + anything that adds value. Maybe Another $50-$100 for the nice matching monitor. Another $200 because of the matched 3.5" controller and drive together, but it's not the superdrive card, so no more than that.
- The spares are nice, but not difficult to obtain. (Although a NZ power supply usually means cannibalising a machine.)
- Most of the large software collection isn't original disks and is pretty much all downloadable, so not worth any more than the media it's on.
- The 3.5" drives are a nice to have, but almost nothing comes on that media for the IIe, and only late PRODOS supports it... (which is WHY the "superdrive" cards are rare... and mostly pointless. )
- No super serial
I think berendsen has gotten
WELL carried away. Even ronturner's willingness to pay above the odds topped out at $890. The person who amazes me most is "jfsugrue". This person seems to have no history (so probably no experience) buying vintage stuff and wades in at the last minute at and pushes the kit right up to $1299.
A well written ad-blurb, two egotistical bidders and an eager novice and here we are... $1309. "creature1" will be over the moon.
Here's hoping it's the lesson that dents berendsen's finances for a bit and makes him think "whoops. that was too much.".