Do you think those 300$ (and higher) retro computers/laptops are asking too high a price on Ebay for how old their parts are?

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Was it always that way at Ebay?

Now granted: I love retro technology but even then I feel this is for the 'rich' only class and if you DO have that much money your throwing it away for something that may last 1 year or it could last you 3 months and fail yet on YT people are praising these old things they claim they got cheap making me want to bitch slap them.

. As Dad told me it's essentially a digital garage sale WITHOUT being able to test the equipment where as Goodwill at least back when they had electronics you could always test it to make sure it would turn on/not blow up,etc where you'd wind up calling Fireman Sam to the rescue and the jokes on you.

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[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some of it is overpriced, but not really by that much. That stuff is still expensive to make. Gaming consoles can sell for $400-500, but only because they are being sold at a loss. The real money is in selling the games and online passes.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well for parts that old it should be a lot cheaper (not free) but not out of reach. These computers you don't know when the hard drive will fail or the motherboard itself will fail as various things in it go. It's like Brave Little Toaster Munch and Crunch (I think that's the name of that song) where the big computer had all of it's lights go out by those 'bugs'. Same thing with any computer. Eventually internal things fail not just things attached.

In fact a lot of your 5 and a half inch floppies will eventually the filaments will fall out given enough time heat and pressure.