At 10:06 AM 3/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
At 04:02 PM 3/14/00 -0800, John wrote:
Well, what would you like me to do?
Carry on the good work The comments below express my sentiments exactly, I have always found john most helpful and i beleive his expertise to be invaluable to the list. regards Pete (invadar)
John,
Continue to do exactly what you're doing. You have every right to make a profit. I don't know what Brendan does for a living but I don't see him or anyone else giving away his service or product for free so why should they expect you to?
My 2 cents worth, Joe
I send out lots of email looking for one unit, and several come back with various assortment of units and pods that they want to sell as a set. They do not like breaking up sets. I have made private trades with folks for these, plus I have sold some off. We have a business here to run, and I need to make money to support it. So I buy them wholesale, then I see that some on eBay went for a fair dollar, I should give them away?
Do your own hunting, all that I have bought have been through thorough research on the web. I bought a bunch of damaged probes and am fixing them up, should I not profit from this service? I bought a bunch of Z80 pods in various states, so I fix them and test them. Again, should I not do what my skills enable me to do? This is MY livelihood!
John :-#)#
At 10:35 AM 3/14/2000 -0600, Keith, Brendan wrote:
So you're buying up more pods and accessories than you need, then ebaying them to maximize your profit, thus taking them off the market except to the most well-heeled buyers, whether hobbyist or not?
Brendan Keith brendan.keith@wilcom.com
---------- From: John Robertson[SMTP:jrr@flippers.com]
Unfortunatly I have a shop to support, not just a hobby...so I tend to eBay the things...I have three Z80 pods, five probes, and a 8048 pod currently...Last Z80 sold for $183US, and last probe I got $125 (including
postage)...plus I have one 9010A base with RS-232 (tested)...
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