[arachne] Re: :Re: ISP has died

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:54:05 +0100, John Sparks wrote:

> I don't know about your corner of the world, but for that money a
> Pentium with 2X your modem speed can be found here. The tricky bit is

HA! I wish!!!!!

Apart from the fact that the money is already gone on the phone
bill, and I can't spend it twice, I have asked around, looked
around, and done just about everything I can think of, and the
best prices for s/h comps are all in the hundreds of $.

Anything that would be cheaper in the commercial market seems to
be scrapped rather than resold, probably to protect their sales
of newer and higher priced hardware.

And in the private market, most people ask ridiculous prices.
They know they can get such a good trade-in price on a new one
that they refuse to sell for less.

(Yes, I know the trade-in price is covered by the padding up the
profit margin on the new one, but they prefer to ignore that.)

There is the rare bargain advertised but so far every one has
been sold before I hear of it.

Greg


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