> My question, though, is where did > he *get* all that stuff from? Did some old computer store have a warehouse > that never got sold off? It doesn't make sense someone would just be > sitting on such a huge lot of shrinkwrapped software for no reason.
I've been talking with him, and he used to buy and sell closeout software in the 1980s until it became too much work and not enough profit. He moved on to become VP of a bank but has held onto his old inventory this whole time, until he realized that people were interested in it. He recently got an offer on his warehouse space, so he's trying to move the inventory along with it. If not he says he'd got a place for it and he'll eventually set up a site to sell items online, individually. It seems pretty clear that no one single collector can possibly afford all this, so unless he snags a dealer with money to burn, he'll be keeping it. I've suggested the possibility of breaking it down into smaller lots of a few thousand items apiece, I know several of us who could afford that. (TomMage got a lot of 10,000 pieces, some new and some returns, a few years back from the same guy.) We'll see what happens. Personally I'd love to pool money with a bunch of other collectors and buy it up, but then we're faced with the impossible question of who gets what. B-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
