Peter Glassenbury wrote: >Well you missed the best half.
I guessed that but unfortunately my wife was getting concerned about the time our dog had been shut in at home. I nearly got her to go home and back again, but it's a fair run and I was getting fed up anyway by the slow pace at which things were moving. Certainly things went at much lower prices than the previous two computer auctions I have been to in CHCH and on Sunday I saw the Computer Broker was making multiple runs in his van to take his bargains away. Apart from the software clogging things up there were too many PCs for one auction. How does one find 400 purchasers at one location, and one time, who will pay a realistic price for a PC? Someone had spent a lot of time cleaning up those systems so that they looked like new and they certainly wouldn't have had much return for them. I think the auctioneers would have learnt something as well. (4+ people for at 4+ nights accommodation, plus travel from Auckland and salaries to be paid out of 10c per CD.) I'm not complaining - my 17" display works well and I also have a spare system unit, keyboard and mouse. >The printers went at about market at $200 -- some of the >I think there were some cheaper ones that had over 200K pages >done on them. If there was any toner left in their cartidges that would have been worth more than than the printers went for! Peter.
