http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130154363595Insane prices! I wonder if tiger_barbie is going to bet on this one?
Enjoy,
-- josé k.
Quote from: "korneluk"http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130154363595
Insane prices! I wonder if tiger_barbie is going to bet on this one?
Enjoy,
-- josé k.
I must be missing something, as there does not seem to be anything that makes this auction that special. I guess the bidders really want a cube system, and are willing to spend some serious coin to get it. The bidder who bumped it to $1,400 has no feedback, which would give me some concern.
Will have to watch this one to see what happens.
Chef
wtf?! There is *nothing* special about that cube. The NeXT CD drive is nice, but even that is only worth MAYBE $150usd. The "elusive and rare" 9ft video cables arent worth squat. I have like 3 11foot ones.
Either those people read somewhere about them becoming collectible and have NO idea what they are really worth or those are fake bids.
Imagine what I could have sold my Quad Cube for with NeXT CRT, multiple keyboards/mice, gobs of cabling.. ;)
and broken networking? sheesh, hit control-c and just vi the damed /etc/hostconfig file...
I was going to get into the bidding action on this @200, but 1500? good luck. I expect to see this reposted.
I asked the seller to send me a picture of the Cube motherboard. I really need to see a rare one with 8 memory slots. All of mine have either 4 or 16... :?
Quote from: "Nitro"I asked the seller to send me a picture of the Cube motherboard. I really need to see a rare one with 8 memory slots. All of mine have either 4 or 16... :?
Please post the picture when you receive it. I am curious as well.
-- josé k.
8? i think my color slab had 8 slots...
Hmmm....
The 4 bidders seem to be from the same family:
r***b
_***o
1***9
a***t
Could this be a hoax?
for the price? I think so. I mean sure owning a cube is fab and all, but this is simply INSANE.
I hate it when people deliberately pump up a price with multiple accounts. He could of at least made some better names. The fact that they all have *'s are a giveaway.
It's a wonderful system though (OD DRIVE!!!1!). If I had a job (almost as hard to get as a cube :P) I would bid on it...If it was going for not so much.
With the CD Drive and all, it's worth about 400usd. MAYBE. I run into stuff similar to this a lot in real life. People have some computer that they think is 'worth' a lot and try selling it to you for gobs of money. I tried buying a C64 with printer, two tape drivers, two floppy drives from a *thrift* store and they lady running it wanted 100 bucks for the lot... I laughed my arse off.
Quote from: "idylukewild"Hmmm....
The 4 bidders seem to be from the same family:
r***b
_***o
1***9
a***t
Could this be a hoax?
I think this is ebay's new way of hiding the users when the auction reaches the higher amount. They used to use Bidder1,2,3 type names but it looks like they might be doing this now instead. Check out some other high dollar auctions, and the names appear to have the same format.
Chef
I hate it when people deliberately pump up a price with multiple accounts. He could of at least made some better names. The fact that they all have *'s are a giveaway.
It's a wonderful system though (OD DRIVE!!!1!). If I had a job (almost as hard to get as a cube :P) I would bid on it...If it was going for not so much.
uuuuh, pentium, why did you post the same thing twice hours apart?
I have no idea. :?
at 11 I was not even in the house.
Wait, I was getting an SQL error earlier that night when posting.
Anyways, back to topic.
nextchef-
Thanks for pointing out the name ** thing. I just looked at some normal auctions and didn't notice it, but I guess they do it when bidding gets high.
Quote from: "idylukewild"nextchef-
Thanks for pointing out the name ** thing. I just looked at some normal auctions and didn't notice it, but I guess they do it when bidding gets high.
It struck me as strange first, as I was used to the Bidder# thing on ebay. I saw an auction for a powerbook I was watching change all the names to the ** pattern, and I put 1 & 1 together and got 2. :D
Chef
so the cube has 16 SIMM slots not 8? and does it say anywhere that the OD is guaranteed to work?
