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Sharkonwheels

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Home of the $599, yellowed, no serial-number, home-made-cabled TRS-80 Model 100:

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Maybe the yellowing is actually gold plating?

I never cease to be entertained at fleaBay - half the fun is just looking at the listing by completely clueless dolts!!!


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Sharkonwheels said:
Home of the $599, yellowed, no serial-number, home-made-cabled TRS-80 Model 100
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Oh good grief.
It's the dreaded "over-priced, over-described but out-of-focus-photo-having" auction item.

Sellers. If you've going to have the audacity to charge a fortune for your item,
take as long as you need to get GOOD CLEAR PHOTOS.
They don't need to be huge, they just need to be IN FOCUS.

Seriously. If I wanted things to be blurry, I'd just take my glasses off.
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That is all.
 
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Ya killed me with that one. A fortune doesn't even cover it - that's like a $50-75 item!

We're laughing on the M100 mailing list...

I thought it was $600 because it was gold-plated, but when I put my glasses on, I realized it was just yellowed.... and $600....

with no serial number sticker...

And some seriously mickey-mouse homemade cables without even hoods on the DB25's!


Ya know, it's REALLY not hard to check completed auctions...

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Here's another that had me in stitches, and yes, AHM, blurry picture!!

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This idiot listed a 20MB hard disk for almost $900!!!

What a buffoon! oh, and default shipping is $12 UPS ground!!!


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I just realized the second buffoon, is the same one that listed a DEC Rainbow for like $2500 earlier in the year! said it was some ultra-rare "Rainbow 190+", but all the specs he listed for it, were identical to a standard 100+ !

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amazing. both of those. sometimes i just wish i owned a gun.

the second one is flat out ridiculous! if i had $900, i'd get new tires for my car, and then just buy one of those overpriced $200 8-bit IDE controllers for my 8088. then i'd eat with the left over cash.
 
I don't see Jesus in that door. At the very best, I can imagine Darth Vader.

In that mini-ITX community, I wonder if anyone has contained a computer inside a crib? "W@W L@@K R4RE: Computer blessed by Jesus and the three wise men".
 
I see a gnome, with like head armor (cone-shaped) going over the eyes, with eyeholes cut out, moustache+beard... don't see no Jesus there...

The grilled cheese was actually bought - it went for like $15-20K or something.

Can't imagine the, um, "aroma" from that samich!!

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I don't see no damn face at all, but those "preaching hands" look more like begging hands to me (trust me, I've seen a lot of panhandlers).

OTOH, I have managed to convince tens of people that my Hurricane K washboard has the face of Jebus in the green patina...and that it changes into a voodoo skull when you hold it to the light a different way. I don't really see that crap, but almost everyone I show it to swears that it's there (I even got a voodoo priestess and a Christian priest to bless it). Not unlike my Satanic laptop illusion, which really is there...scares the sh!t out of some people.

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My friends first auction on ebay, he posted a homeless persons underwear. Very brown and dirty. He got $25 and a good comment "Smells as expected".
 
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