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Offline intelli78

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"The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 12:06:53 »
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 12:07:54 »
Oh my. :eek:
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Offline ComradeSniper

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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 13:53:31 »
I'll be astonished if this sells at all.
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Offline esoomenona

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« Reply #3 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 13:57:16 »
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Offline scubaste

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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 13:58:21 »
As much as I'd love to join the Kishsaver club... that price is just too much to overcome.
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Offline HPE1000

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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 14:01:02 »
Well...
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 15:12:54 »
I hope this doesn't sell for nearly that high. The buyer will be right out wasting their money. The current highest interested bid for an unrestored Kishsaver seems to be ~$260. Maybe in five to ten years when it's become a legend again, maybe it will get close to $500. Maybe a solid and well built Xtant with a fully custom case could run at these prices, but not an unmodified, unrestored board that's still in need of a lot of love.

That said, how rare are Kishsavers in the grand scheme of things? Have we unearthed almost all of them or are there hundreds left to be found? Model F AT are going for $200-250 regularly on eBay. Is a Kishsaver really worth the same as an AT in the current market?
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 16:20:05 »
I wonder who the seller is? this listing is a joke.
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 11 October 2014, 23:24:31 »
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 12 October 2014, 07:51:31 »
Quote from: sleepy916 on Sat, 11 October 2014, 16:20:05
I wonder who the seller is? this listing is a joke.

Isn't a joke I'm afraid.

That said, I am hoping and praying that Wcass manages to figure out how to make model F hammers and barrels. Once that is done, there will be no more rarity value and the market will be restored to its senses.
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #10 on: Sun, 12 October 2014, 08:59:20 »
Oh my oh my
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #11 on: Sun, 12 October 2014, 09:18:53 »
This guy is smoking the ole crack pipe...
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Offline Tiramisuu

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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #13 on: Sun, 12 October 2014, 10:25:52 »
I remember when the northgate omnikey came out and everyone wanted to chuck these away.
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #14 on: Sun, 12 October 2014, 16:37:46 »
Quote from: Tiramisuu on Sun, 12 October 2014, 10:25:52
I remember when the northgate omnikey came out and everyone wanted to chuck these away.
They wanted to chuck away their banking terminal keyboards, and plug PC keyboards into their incompatible banking terminals?
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 02:29:56 »
Quote from: Tiramisuu on Sun, 12 October 2014, 10:25:52
I remember when the northgate omnikey came out and everyone wanted to chuck these away.

That's okay, the northgates then got tossed to be replaced by black rubber dome boards.
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #16 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 03:18:57 »
Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 12 October 2014, 09:18:53
This guy is smoking the ole crack pipe...

 :))

Yeah, couldn't of said it any better.
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Re: "The Buy-It-Now option is strongly recommended"
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 06:07:45 »
Quote from: dustinhxc on Tue, 14 October 2014, 03:18:57
Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 12 October 2014, 09:18:53
This guy is smoking the ole crack pipe...

 :))

Yeah, couldn't of said it any better.

Wrong.

This guy is fine. He's just waiting for a BUYER smoking the ole crack pipe.

And regrettably, there are many such buyers. Probably has something to do with the recent legalization of marijuana?
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