Re: Still three hours to bid... gosh!

On 2015-02-16 20:31, Bo Zimmerman wrote:
> Nah, an object is always worth what the buyer is willing to pay and the
> seller is willing to give it up for.

Right, for any object actually.

The "ridiculousness" we talk about is like a kind of a surprise that 
people are in fact willing to pay those amounts for such things. I think 
myself that I pay too much for pieces of obsolete electronic machinery 
as whatever CBM ever produced. Don't even ask what my friends/family 
would say if they knew some of the prices I paid for.. "computer junk 
that nobody's ever going to use for anything useful". Not that I keep it 
secret. They'd simply have to ask as I just don't broadcast information 
on that. They don't / rarely ask. I guess because they think in terms of 
two orders of magnitude less than it actually is ;-) Yet - I am still 
not in the league. And it's not really even about the financial 
capabilities. It's just a kind of.. conscience I guess, which makes me 
draw the line far below the levels we observed in this case.

OTOH, maybe I simply miss a good investment opportunities... who knows? 
As well as who knows how long the custom chips are going to work in a 
unit like this.. eh... I'd still love to have one :-)

-- 
SD!

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