Donated by Steve Sarrica via Rob Argy (ajax): Four Syquest 44MB cartridges. (Three are Syquest brand, one is Cutting Edge brand). Untested but presumed working, no idea if anything is on them. Bid on them separately; if you want more than one, specify how many you're bidding on at a given price.25 responses total.
These 4 items are still available for bidding....
$1.
this is a $2 bid, if i also get the drive for them from the pevious item.
It might be a good idea of the auctioneers to keep the bidding on this item open until after the tape drive in item 64 has been sold.
Sounds good to me.
popcorn got the tape drive, so her bid of $1 will become final, um, soonish. >8)
This item is sold to me.
I should make my check payable to Cyberspace Communications and
send it to:
Cyberspace Communications, Inc. ****************
P.O. Box 4432 * NEW ADDRESS! *
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432 ****************
:)
Yes, but will you? >8)
Yup. No worries! :)
Oops. I failed to read the part of #0 that said you should bid separately on the four cartridges. My bid of $1 was for all four cartridges. I'm reopening bidding for a week, in case anybody wants to outbid me. That was the most fair way of handling this that I could think of.
The fairest thing *I* can think of is for you to pay $4 for all four cartridges.
Hm...there was no minimum bid; I think if Valerie intended her bid to be $1 for all four, and nobody else topped that since her Sept 6 statement to that effect, that 25 cents per cart is more sensible. Robh is the uninvolved auctioneer...ruling? :-)
I think it should be whichever one popcorn wants to pay. >8) <robh the quarterback throws the buck long, to popcorn>
One dollar for the four cartridges.
I bid $3.99 for all four cartridges.
Fine. They're yours.
I can't help but think that #15 is a sneaky attempt to get me to pay Grex another $3 for these cartridges that I'm *very* unlikely to be able to use anyway (but I've got the cartridge drive that goes with them, so I'd expect them to be even less useful to Mark). Also, I question the validity of response #15, because I reopened bidding on these cartridges for a week on September 6, so bidding should have been closed again by the time Mark entered response #15. I have no idea whether this means Mark's bid is valid or invalid. I'm inclined to say that it's not valid, because so much time had gone by. But I'll defer to Rob's judgement on this, as he's the auctioneer who isn't involved in this. (Mark, you could simplify this a lot by rescinding your bid.)
Heh. And you could simplify it a lot by bidding $4. No, mine was a serious bid, and I won't rescind it. According to this month's Egghead catalog, 3 100 meg zip disks sell for $50. At that rate, 4 44 meg disks would go for about $29. (Yes, I realize that they are not compatible items, but they are comparable media.) So $4 seems like a more than reasonable price to me, and I'd like to see Grex get at least that much. P.S. #15 was not "sneaky". It had all the subtlety of a Bob Dole commercial.
New 44MB Syquest carts sell for about $40 each. I view that as irrelevent to the current bidding, however. I still think the Sept. 6 bid should be final, but RobH previously declined to decide the issue. Is bidding closed after 7 days, or only after an auctioneer declares it closed?
I think that's something else we haven't decided yet. >8) I'd say popcorn is welcome to up the bid if she wants.
Oh, forget it. I'll pay $3, Valerie can pay $1, and she can have the discs. Rob H., please freeze this item before anyone else gets hurt.
Consider it done.
Wait... I don't feel comfortable having Mark pay $3 for disks for me. <valerie snatches the grexbat from mark and bopitty bops herself upside the head> (the Grexbat *is* cushioned, right?)
Re 19: The other time this question came up, if I remember right, we decided in favor of letting bidding continue, since it brought in more money for Grex. I'm not sure if that's relevant here.
I'd agree with that, since popcorn is the one who benefited from the last bidding extension. The law of three-fold return in action. >8)
You have several choices: