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And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay. I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay, but yeah...

And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay. I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay, but yeah... it can make sense, especially if that computer runs a factory machine or something, and just needs a quick replacement part. EDIT: ...otherwise wildly overpriced items on eBay are because trader has run out of stock, wants to keep the same product page, but doesn't want anybody to buy in the meantime. They do this, because items have rankings for which appears first.

syntheticnature 7y ago
It's always worth checking the 'sold' listings to see what prices actually sell. Sometimes they do regularly sell at the inflated price, but often they don't.
ryanmercer 7y ago
>I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay People trying to build their vintage dream machine mostly I suppose. Folks like LGR on YouTube [0] to some degree will pay more than one would expect for a specific piece of hardware and people building private collections in general. That Nintendo-Playstation prototype unit is currently going for 300,000 USD [1] right now at auction (and I believe Palmer Luckey is still the high bidder, he was a couple weeks ago per his Twitter). I've paid an obscene (to me based on my income) amount for vintage tech before, as well as other things that I collect ( for example 3x spot price for an ugly silver art bar that most people would only pay spot for because that specific variety of art bar has significance to us old time members of /r/silverbugs and I wanted a second one). I mean, remember when Bezos spent more money than most people make in their lifetime to salvage an F1 engine from Apoloo 11 from the ocean floor? [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about [1] https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play-station-super-nes-cd-rom-prototype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play... [3] https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines-recovery.html https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines...
- rubyn00bie 7y ago
  The whole space.com article (3 from above) about Bezos was worth it just for the part about the boat's captain: > "And I took my parents with me. My mom was the only woman in this group of 60 men on this boat," Bezos said. > He added that the Norwegian boat captain advised Bezos when he boarded the boat that he had removed all the pornography, "out of respect" to Bezos' mother. > "OK, thank you," Bezos told the captain.
labawi 7y ago
> And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay. It also depends on your cash flow / economic considerations - you may not wish to have 1 M$ in merchandise sitting in storage, waiting for it to be sold in about 10 years.

syntheticnature 7y ago

It's always worth checking the 'sold' listings to see what prices actually sell. Sometimes they do regularly sell at the inflated price, but often they don't.

ryanmercer 7y ago

>I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay People trying to build their vintage dream machine mostly I suppose. Folks like LGR on YouTube [0] to some degree will pay more than one would expect for a specific piece of hardware and people building private collections in general. That Nintendo-Playstation prototype unit is currently going for 300,000 USD [1] right now at auction (and I believe Palmer Luckey is still the high bidder, he was a couple weeks ago per his Twitter). I've paid an obscene (to me based on my income) amount for vintage tech before, as well as other things that I collect ( for example 3x spot price for an ugly silver art bar that most people would only pay spot for because that specific variety of art bar has significance to us old time members of /r/silverbugs and I wanted a second one). I mean, remember when Bezos spent more money than most people make in their lifetime to salvage an F1 engine from Apoloo 11 from the ocean floor? [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about [1] https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play-station-super-nes-cd-rom-prototype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play... [3] https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines-recovery.html https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines...

rubyn00bie 7y ago
The whole space.com article (3 from above) about Bezos was worth it just for the part about the boat's captain: > "And I took my parents with me. My mom was the only woman in this group of 60 men on this boat," Bezos said. > He added that the Norwegian boat captain advised Bezos when he boarded the boat that he had removed all the pornography, "out of respect" to Bezos' mother. > "OK, thank you," Bezos told the captain.

labawi 7y ago

> And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay. It also depends on your cash flow / economic considerations - you may not wish to have 1 M$ in merchandise sitting in storage, waiting for it to be sold in about 10 years.