eBay prices have gotten silly. Sellers seem a lot more willing to sit on items for years hoping they get 4-5x what something should sell for rather than moving volume these days. It's odd psychology when you know a lot of it just gets scrapped eventually when it never sells.
There is an ebay seller 'biff-howard-tanen' that has some C200s up right now. All their items have "Make an Offer'' and they tend to be fairly reasonable as long as you account for the free shipping they offer. I've had mostly good luck with buying from them, and they made right the couple oops. Regards, Kevin On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just looked at the prices on eBay—yikes! All of my HP hardware from that > era was pretty inexpensive a few years back. > > What are people using the B180L for that’s driven the prices so high? I > assume it’s another “there’s a piece of equipment that was built around this > specific platform 20+ years ago, and we’re still running it so we need > spares” situation, just like the equipment that was built around the > VAXstation 4000 Model 90 which keeps the price on that insane. > > Is there a specific need you’re trying to fill? I wound up with an additional > B- or C-series workstation as part of a deal, I can check what model it is > (it’s in storage right now) and we can talk off-list about maybe getting it > to a good home. (I’m in the SF Bay Area if that helps, no idea where you are.) > > -- Chris > > PS - There’s a Vintage HP Computers group at https://groups.io/g/VintHPcom/ > where you’ll also find lots of folks talking about the entire range of HP > computer hardware. >
