Tanked economy.  Computers = toasters.  Endless possibilities.

on 10/11/03 3:16 PM, Hamlin Krewson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Well, locally the only place I've found so far has been ISU.
> Unfortunately they have a bloated sense of equipment value, so
> computers sit for weeks or months before they're low enough to
> purchase. He has beige g3s usually sitting at $100-225 depending on
> whether or not it includes a monitor, and I fully expect he'd have B&Ws
> at $300 if he had any to sell at the moment. Of course I also think
> they are selling illegal copies of the OS, but that's another argument
> altogether.
> 
> Most businesses around here sell to employees only (or at least first).
> The local science center has had a sale occasionally, but their prices
> are more bloated than the university's.
> 
>> The truth is that there is no one place for such deals.  They come from
>> businesses, schools, government...wherever depreciation has rendered
>> the
>> items into items that have to be sold at tax value.  Auctions for
>> bankruptcies and ebay sell at consumer prices.  I look for tax prices.
> 


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