Trag, I consider the capacitor packs you sell a "service to the community," not profiteering. It's 100% obvious that you are doing it as a labor of love more than seeking to make an enormous margin off your fellow Mac lovers. Have one look at the vintage Mac or vintage Apple section of EBAY to see clearly how you compare with the sharks! You sold to me without hesitation, and for a very reasonable price too, despite the fact I am located in a different country than you are. And for those reasons I thought it would be good to make your "service" a sticky, even though your service is not 100% free. To ban info about your service from being a sticky only because it is not free is foolish. If you did not offer these capacitors to us at all, who else here would? And a lot of folks in our community would not be so willing to go out and buy them themselves, and therefore a lot of old Macs would either continue on in a broken condition or -- gasp -- be trashed. Seriously, how many capacitors would one have to buy as an individual, if they wanted to do this kind of work themselves? They would obviously have to spend more than the $10 that you charge!
I attend a church here in Japan. Each Sunday the church has a lunch after the morning services conclude. They charge ¥250 for the lunch, which includes drinks. Since a normal lunch anywhere else would normally cost double that, it's evident the church is not profiteering off the lunch (as you would expect a church should not). They are pretty much charging for the ingredients in the lunch, and perhaps a little for any cleaning materials required (soap etc.) to clean up afterwards. In like manner, Trag, you are not buying something for one penny and then trying to charge us a dollar for it. You are selling something for a price as cheap or cheaper than the cheapest places we can find on the net for such items! And again, where can one find all the values needed for an SE/30 recap in one place and in the right quantities? No where except from you here on this site.
I am also shocked that no one other than myself has chimed in on this. Does no one understand what a true "service to the community" is? Trag, yours is a "low-cost recapping service" indeed. May it gain sticky status as soon as possible. And thank you for paying the upfront costs to make this service available to all of us here on the 68kMLA.
I attend a church here in Japan. Each Sunday the church has a lunch after the morning services conclude. They charge ¥250 for the lunch, which includes drinks. Since a normal lunch anywhere else would normally cost double that, it's evident the church is not profiteering off the lunch (as you would expect a church should not). They are pretty much charging for the ingredients in the lunch, and perhaps a little for any cleaning materials required (soap etc.) to clean up afterwards. In like manner, Trag, you are not buying something for one penny and then trying to charge us a dollar for it. You are selling something for a price as cheap or cheaper than the cheapest places we can find on the net for such items! And again, where can one find all the values needed for an SE/30 recap in one place and in the right quantities? No where except from you here on this site.
I am also shocked that no one other than myself has chimed in on this. Does no one understand what a true "service to the community" is? Trag, yours is a "low-cost recapping service" indeed. May it gain sticky status as soon as possible. And thank you for paying the upfront costs to make this service available to all of us here on the 68kMLA.