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Post #7 by Dog Cow
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateFri, 7 May 2010 - 23:33
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/the-current-128k-phenomenon.20521/
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Another thing--I'm sick of seeing the words "rare" and "vintage" in eBay auctions.
Yeah, I know, right? I think it's funny. It's like,

"what eBay category are we in?"

"Oh, we're in the Vintage Apple category"

"I think I'll throw it in the title just to be on the safe side"

Hardly a week goes by where I don't see some auction that's like "this is super-rare unobtainium" and it's something that I have 2-3 copies of that were given to me by friends/family....

My current amusing trend that I'm seeing are the old box-type mice, you know, the ones for the Mac 128k, Plus, and Apple IIe, going for about $15-$20. Because about 3 weeks ago, I bought a lot of 2 original beige Mac mice, the super-old ones which have the square plug and Apple-logo thumbscrews, for $3. Just three dollars. Now about 2 weeks later, I'm seeing all of these mice (and even the newer, yet boxy ADB mice) going for about 5 times that amount.

Was I just lucky?

(As an aside, I just won an auction for the Apple IIc mouse, so now I should have every old-type Apple mouse (because I've also got some of the newer platinum colored mice for the newer 512k and Plus models) except the Lisa mouse, and maybe the black Mac TV mouse if you were to count that.)

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