Re: Classic Games in the News

From: John Robertson <jrr_at_flippers.com>
Date: Wed Jul 28 1999 - 10:57:00 EDT

Having a couple of SW boardsets, I popped over to Ebay to see what the
story is. The last "Working" boardset sold for only $125US...sigh...there
goes my trip to Europe!

John :-#)#

At 11:59 PM 7/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/27/99 3:57:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>rlboots@cedar-rapids.net writes:
>
><< One nice thing about being in the midwest is that you
> don't get reporters doing pieces like this. Just as well,
> hardly anyone ever takes the effort to spell my name
> right! >>
>
> I wish to heck the damn reporters would shut up about it. They're
> making
>more and more "newbies" want into our hobby, and for the most part, they
>offer nothing but a propensity to ask you if "you want to sell any of your
>machines", " where can I get ?????", "can you fix ????", or drive prices for
>things like SW boardsets to $400 on egay.
> I think things were better when the average retail newbie was still
>oblivious...
>
>Just venting,
>MK

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Received on Wed Jul 28 09:58:14 1999

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