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Reply 1000 of 1353, by deleted_Rc

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Tetrium wrote:
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this one works - http://www.ebay.com/itm/192258018290

and it would not surprise me to see that sell. Mac people... are different.

"For parts or not working" 20k? 😕
How the heck did people who buy this stuff get so much money in the first place?

The same reason those same people pay 800-1000 to get a new iPhone and let's not start on their other design crap.

Reply 1001 of 1353, by kithylin

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"For parts or not working" 20k? 😕
How the heck did people who buy this stuff get so much money in the first place?

A lot of ebay sellers these days (at least the smart ones) are selling perfectly good and working hardware as "parts and not working". It's literally the only way to prevent buyers from opening a return case. Scam buyers are rampant lately and the worst lot of em come from people buying old hardware. Most of the time with old hardware they'll damage it when trying to install it and then claim it didn't work because they're idiots. The way ebay has changed where buyer protection automatically judges in favor of the buyer, sellers have no other choice.

Reply 1002 of 1353, by cj_reha

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-486-DX-2-66Mh … 119.m1438.l2649

First of all, overpriced bog stock 486, but read the item description. Excluding the weird golf stuff, he seems to think because someone registered this PC to Bill Gates, it was ACTUALLY used by him? It's really weird 🤣 🤣

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Reply 1003 of 1353, by Tetrium

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kithylin wrote:
Tetrium wrote:

"For parts or not working" 20k? 😕
How the heck did people who buy this stuff get so much money in the first place?

A lot of ebay sellers these days (at least the smart ones) are selling perfectly good and working hardware as "parts and not working". It's literally the only way to prevent buyers from opening a return case. Scam buyers are rampant lately and the worst lot of em come from people buying old hardware. Most of the time with old hardware they'll damage it when trying to install it and then claim it didn't work because they're idiots. The way ebay has changed where buyer protection automatically judges in favor of the buyer, sellers have no other choice.

Ebay could've been fantastic.

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Reply 1004 of 1353, by Jade Falcon

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cj_reha wrote:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-486-DX-2-66Mh … 119.m1438.l2649

First of all, overpriced bog stock 486, but read the item description. Excluding the weird golf stuff, he seems to think because someone registered this PC to Bill Gates, it was ACTUALLY used by him? It's really weird 🤣 🤣

And I thought I was the only one that registered my pic as bill gates

Reply 1006 of 1353, by dexter311

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luckybob wrote:

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this one works - http://www.ebay.com/itm/192258018290

and it would not surprise me to see that sell. Mac people... are different.

RAID cards which are out of production can fetch a pretty penny, mainly because quite often large companies who have their data stored on older servers with these hardware RAID cards might need legacy parts in the future. It's a silly thought nowadays, what with software RAID like ZFS being the norm, but there could be many companies out there that ran a Mac Pro as a server with this exact hardware RAID card in it. If that RAID card dies, their data could be SOL because you need the exact same card to get the array working again.

Hence, legacy enterprise hardware like this commands big dollars. They only need one buyer.

Reply 1007 of 1353, by Tetrium

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dexter311 wrote:
luckybob wrote:

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this one works - http://www.ebay.com/itm/192258018290

and it would not surprise me to see that sell. Mac people... are different.

RAID cards which are out of production can fetch a pretty penny, mainly because quite often large companies who have their data stored on older servers with these hardware RAID cards might need legacy parts in the future. It's a silly thought nowadays, what with software RAID like ZFS being the norm, but there could be many companies out there that ran a Mac Pro as a server with this exact hardware RAID card in it. If that RAID card dies, their data could be SOL because you need the exact same card to get the array working again.

Hence, legacy enterprise hardware like this commands big dollars. They only need one buyer.

Does this include PCI-X raid cards? 😁
Oh no, wait a minute, those were SCSI cards. Still have the SCSI cables attached to them 😵

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Reply 1008 of 1353, by TheAbandonwareGuy

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oeuvre wrote:

LMAO, it doesn't even fully work. The last ram slot is broken.

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Reply 1009 of 1353, by Jade Falcon

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WOW, I know that's a simple fix and all, but dang that's a lot for the board. Also the AT port has some rust

Reply 1010 of 1353, by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Jade Falcon wrote:

WOW, I know that's a simple fix and all, but dang that's a lot for the board. Also the AT port has some rust

I almost wonder if this isn't some sort of shady money laundering listing.

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Reply 1011 of 1353, by Jade Falcon

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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:
Jade Falcon wrote:

WOW, I know that's a simple fix and all, but dang that's a lot for the board. Also the AT port has some rust

I almost wonder if this isn't some sort of shady money laundering listing.

could be, or a mistake, there out of stock or the lister is insane.

Reply 1012 of 1353, by xplus93

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Jade Falcon wrote:
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Jade Falcon wrote:

WOW, I know that's a simple fix and all, but dang that's a lot for the board. Also the AT port has some rust

I almost wonder if this isn't some sort of shady money laundering listing.

could be, or a mistake, there out of stock or the lister is insane.

Never rule out simple stupidity 😜

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Reply 1013 of 1353, by oeuvre

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Probably a mistake... I bought my Pavilion from that seller for $40 shipped and it was a complete working tower.

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Reply 1017 of 1353, by RJDog

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I'm not normally in the market for Voodoo5 PCI so I am not familiar with going rates, but this seems excessive...

http://m.ebay.com/itm/3dfx-Voodoo-5-5500-PCI- … 6.c100408.m2460

Neat that it comes with a PCI-express to PCI bridge though (quite cheap on AliExpress BTW). Its almost too bad; the seller is right around the corner from me (relatively speaking).

Reply 1019 of 1353, by clueless1

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Jade Falcon wrote:

At least shipping is free. Has the price of copper gone up recently?

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