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- From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace
- Subject: Re: price reference
- Message-ID: <MS-C.728023351.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:42:31 GMT
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- To: "Nathan F. Janette" <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>
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- Bzzt. Wrong. The $3500 price is for a complete monochrome turbo. I
- don't know about the $4600 for a complete color turbo; that seems low
- by about $1100.
-
- Nonetheless, it is still the case that people are asking outrageous
- prices for used NeXTs in this newsgroup. Such people are the rightful
- prey of people like me, because the greater their expectations, the
- longer they hold out and the more desperate they become when the
- bottom drops out. Then us vultures swoop down and clean up, buying
- someone's purported ``investment'' with pennies on the dollar.
-