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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:49:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I think this screen might have had a LITTLE bit of use in the past.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:50:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this one is on ebay. They want 200$ for a terminal with that much burn in, they don't even know if it works, and they don't have the matching keyboard (and wyse keyboards are model-specific)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:55:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Wyse terminals are all listed for like 200$-300$ on ebay. I don't really know WHY. They're not special in some way that other dumb terminals aren't, and half of these are missing keyboards (useless!) and/or have obvious deflection problems (at least one of them was shown TURNED ON while having failed deflection, which will damage it)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:56:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yet again I'm looking at something I want on ebay and going "why are these so expensive? no one wants this!"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:58:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     at the same time as all the 250$ broken ones (which often have another 100$ of shipping on them, which is Very Justified (IT'S A CRT FROM THE 80s: DO NOT SHIP IT CHEAPLY)), someone will be selling one for 200$ OBO but it's got a functional screen and an included keyboard.

     https://www.ebay.com/itm/166998811933

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:59:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my guess is that people selling these things are just searching ebay to see how much they sell for and they're all sniffing each others farts. Every person with a broken terminal is like "see? ebay says they're 200$" and those aren't selling.

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:14:02 JST Denis Warburton

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     @foone That’s how you - or you and a few friends - manage to manipulate your way into setting the “market” price.

     That’s why with ‘certain items,’ I don’t bother with any eBay auction that won’t allow you make an offer.

     Then again, everyone assumes that everything that’s old is gold… until they find out they aren’t… and then throw them all away rather than take a loss.