Ya, no thirty dollar shipping here.
Yup, that's a lot of shipping costs there, especially since you have to package it with twice the actual necessary padding to make sure it survives the people that you are paying to get it there, thus raising the price even higher.
And that is precisely why I'm going to slant my site away from Vintage collectors and towards corporate legacy equipment supply and servicing.
If a company wants something, they'll buy it. If they want it fast, they'll pay for courier service. If they have something that's broken, they won't even blink about shipping the thing to you, paying for the repair and the shipping back.
When I started the site, I wanted to get lovingly repaired and fully tested equipment into the hands of people who would appreciate it. However, it seems that few individuals want to pay for a piece of hardware that has been repaired and/or tested to original specs and would rather pay 10 bucks less for a pig-in-a-poke from Fleabay that probably isn't going to work when they get it. I can no longer justify the sentiment expressed in the first sentence of this paragraph.
The Vintage (read 'stuff that no company would EVER have a use for') equipment will be fleabay'd off to whomever bids the most and that'll get it out of the way,
The early PC stuff will go on the site since I have places like the Pam-Am flight training complex buying 30 MB MFM HDs for their legacy flight simulators and ice companies in Ireland buying 16 bit ISA Multi-I/O cards and having them couriered for who knows what.
I mean, I doubt that companies care how much time and effort goes into fixing and testing this stuff either, but, they'll pay what it costs because they need it.
Maybe this should go into the Rants section, but, it's just business.