response 26 of 54:

Oct 10 17:16 UTC 1996

That is good. :)

response 28 of 54:

Oct 12 20:57 UTC 1996

(I read eskarina's plan from backtalk.  What I wanna know is how she
 can send a tel to backtalk.)

response 30 of 54:

Oct 13 00:19 UTC 1996

Oh wow, that's tomorrow.  Where should I go to pick stuff up?

response 32 of 54:

Oct 13 15:10 UTC 1996

Rob, Steve and I unloaded a lot of STUFF at the jcc sale.  It looked pretty
good to me.  All our Mac STUFF sold in the first 30 seconds of the sale. 
Well, there wasn't much of it.

response 34 of 54:

Oct 14 02:21 UTC 1996

  It went well enough.  We grossed $201.51, so minus the $80 for tables,
made $121.51.  Also, RickyB stopped by and wrote a general donation for
$65, though he would have given that to Grex at some point whether we
were at the sale or not, so it's not exactly sale money.  We handed out
some Grex fliers, but didn't have a huge supply, so we ran out.

  Scg, Jan, and I got there early and moved stuff in.  Scg and I stuck
around most of the day, and David Dorney (dadroc) showed up in the latter
half.  TS made a brief cameo appearance staffing the table, too (he was
a multi-vendor, also working at Arbornet's table :-).

  Some general suggestions for future sales: I don't think it's worth
bringing mono monitors, or 8086, 8088, or 80286 computers to the sale
any more.  Even a completely working system, with hard drive, keyboard,
and monitor, has very little value.  (I'd say generally under $5 at the
JCC sale).  There could conceivably be something worthwhile inside such
a computer (like SIMMs or a particularly good hard drive), but in
practice that's very rare.  VGA monitors, particularly color ones, fetch
a good price, and demand for Mac-related stuff is higher there than in
the populace at large.

  Most of our money came from selling a lot of trivial things, like
various PC cards for 50 cents or a dollar a piece, and cables for 10
to 20 cents a piece.

response 36 of 54:

Oct 14 14:19 UTC 1996

Did we end up bringing much junk home?  I had planned to come back for thw
wrap-up, but fell asleep in the bathtub instead.

response 38 of 54:

Oct 14 16:29 UTC 1996

  Didn't bring any junk home.  Around noon, I started putting cheap
prices on stuff that nobody had looked at, and around 3, after most
everything sellable had been sold, we started moving most of the
stuff to a "free" pile (mono monitors, daisy-wheel printers, etc.).
(People often take stuff for free that they wouldn't pay 25 or 50
cents for).
 
  There was an increase in people purchasing stuff as art rather
than as technology.  Eight 286 motherboards were bought by someone
who wanted to make wall art out of them, while a hard drive was
bought by someone who wanted to make a 3600rpm spirograph kind of
contraption.  Scg snapped up the innards of a hard drive, as a
conversation piece/pasta cutter (its four platters had about the
right separation for fettucini).  At the last sale, someone took
free monitors for an art project, though at this sale, people
hadn't even taken the monitors for free by the time I left.

response 40 of 54:

Oct 14 17:54 UTC 1996

Heck, I'd give more than $5 for a 286 too.

response 42 of 54:

Oct 14 19:19 UTC 1996

Sure, but let's continue in private mail.

response 44 of 54:

Oct 15 02:03 UTC 1996

Re #38:
    I told the people doing these things that m-net/grex ought to create
"art" out of old motherboards and such, and charge top dollar for it at the
Art Fair.

response 46 of 54:

Oct 15 04:27 UTC 1996

We sold them before I thought of this, but the IBM PS/2 tower cases we had
would have made really good table legs.

response 48 of 54:

Oct 15 06:50 UTC 1996

I don't think circuit boards would be as satifying as were clocks when I was
a kid. The clock parts *do* things - you could spin the gears, if you
could reassemble it after lossening things and having the spring jump across
the room. But there is no way to have an old circuit board *do* anything,
except sit there passively as you pound out the parts.