Well, it may not be the seller's fault, look at the bidding logs.
I believe that is the point I have been making from the start. I am NOT blaming the sellers. Dog Cow is not wrong that some auctions start pre-maturely inflated as initiated by the seller. However, the vast majority of these auctions are pushed ever higher by the buyers who have some kind of bottomless riches lining their pockets unlike most folks in the world these days.
By creating and maintaining the content on this site - we have directly contributed to the environment where these Macs are seen as desirable collectables.
Eh. Not so sure about that. If anything this site routinely points out how little value the 128K holds. Unless you are suggesting these kinds of threads about how much they are going for are self-perpetuating. If anything these articles should warn people that they are overpaying, and could easily correct the situation if they refused to pay such inflated fees. The way people go on about SE/30s around here should have caused those prices to skyrocket. But as long as I have been collecting, the 128K has routinely blown the SE/30's prices out of the water (currently SE/30s are going for around $100 US). So I'm not entirely sure how our forum contributes to the inflated prices people are willing to spend on some of these specific models.
There's also that small group of people who will spend whatever it takes to get a certain item.
Yes, yes. But why now? Why at a time when the world's economy is depressed and people of all walks are spending more conservatively? Why not two years ago when the economy was thriving at the top of the bubble?
