Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is expensive. It drove the
company I was last working for to move out of Austin. Their business
Depends when it was bought. Pre-bubble or after the largest real estate
bubble in the history of mankind.
These guys are fairly local to me...20 minute drive or so. I might take a hike
out there and see if they're any good or a joke.
Jim
From: Grant Taylor via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:22
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: 2 huge warehouses
On 10/29/2018 06:36 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote:
I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are outrageous.
I have heard through the grapevine that the prices shown are MSRP and
meant for businesses.
Purportedly they will provide much more reasonable pricing if you
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:04:53PM -0600, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, their business model is to sell a once common $10 part for $500
> because it's an exact replacement and the cost to warehouse it is dwarfed
> by the huge profit margin...
Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:29 AM Ali via cctalk
wrote:
> > > I guess someone has been looking at the site
> > > Their inventory search broke.
> >
> > I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are
> > outrageous.
> >
>
> They are definitely not aimed at the hobbyist. More of one
> > I guess someone has been looking at the site
> > Their inventory search broke.
>
> I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are
> outrageous.
>
They are definitely not aimed at the hobbyist. More of one of those
operations were they are looking to cash in on desperate
On Oct 29, 2018, at 4:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> I guess someone has been looking at the site
> Their inventory search broke.
I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are outrageous.
Guess we know how they accumulated multiple warehouses full of gear.
-- Chris
On 10/29/18 4:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> I guess someone has been looking at the site
> Their inventory search broke.
>
nevermind, it spits out a
500 Error. Internal Server Error.
if nothing matches
On 10/29/18 4:24 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/29/2018 2:53 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
>> Thursday I visited Computer Fusion near Dallas, TX. They have 2 huge
>> warehouses that they have been filling up since the 1990s. I saw a lot of
>> old Sun gear, lots of 90s
On 10/29/2018 2:53 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
Thursday I visited Computer Fusion near Dallas, TX. They have 2 huge
warehouses that they have been filling up since the 1990s. I saw a lot of
old Sun gear, lots of 90s era PCs, etc. Not all of it is listed on his site,
but if there is
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