Ionica auction
Phil Rodgers
by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
Phil
graham boyd
>
> Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very much
> by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
Was it worth going? I was considering trying to pick up some of the
Sun kit, but I had no idea if the bidding was starting at some
baseline or not. Either way it certainly would have been too much of
a lottery for me to spend all day there. :(
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Phil Rodgers
gb...@disintegration.org (graham boyd) wrote:
> Phil Rodgers wrote:
> >
> > Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very
> > much
> > by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
>
> Was it worth going? I was considering trying to pick up some of the
> Sun kit, but I had no idea if the bidding was starting at some
> baseline or not. Either way it certainly would have been too much of
> a lottery for me to spend all day there. :(
It all seemed very expensive to me. The PCs were typically going for about
150% of their processor speed (i.e. 300 quid for a P200), plus 10% buyers
premium plus VAT, which seems extraordinarily expensive for 2nd user kit
with no warranty. I was after some of the chairs, but they were going for
about 90 quid (+10%+VAT), which was more than twice what I was hoping to
pay for them. I left after an hour or so, and popped back in the afternoon
to check that similar prices were still prevailing, which unfortunately
they were.
Phil
Richard Meredith
rod...@cix.co.uk (Phil Rodgers) wrote:
> Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very
> much by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
Nope. As bad a case of auction fever as I've ever seen.
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: In article <372991DD...@disintegration.org>,
: gb...@disintegration.org (graham boyd) wrote:
: It all seemed very expensive to me. The PCs were typically going for about
: 150% of their processor speed (i.e. 300 quid for a P200), plus 10% buyers
: premium plus VAT, which seems extraordinarily expensive for 2nd user kit
: with no warranty.
True, but some of the higher priced PCs had very nice monitors. It
seems to me that many of the amateur buyers didn't know what they were
buying, though.
: I was after some of the chairs, but they were going for about 90
: quid (+10%+VAT), which was more than twice what I was hoping to pa
Fair enough, but they are really good chairs. Worth the Ł90, I
reckon.
Andrew.
Ben
<gb...@disintegration.org> writes:
> Phil Rodgers wrote:
> >
> > Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very much
> > by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
>
> Was it worth going? I was considering trying to pick up some of the
> Sun kit, but I had no idea if the bidding was starting at some
> baseline or not. Either way it certainly would have been too much of
> a lottery for me to spend all day there. :(
I went. Was there from beginning to end. Time taken 10:02-20:36 (no
breaks). The auctioneer was a Yorkshire man and kept us going the whole
day with some humour. Prices were silly; 32,000UKP for the E5000, 2100 for
an Ultra Enterprise 2, 500UKP for a 486 laptop?
No, it wasn't worth going with the amount of PHBs there with fat and
clueless wallets. PCs went expensively for what you could get new, unless
they had a 21" monitor, then they went for silly money.
I got 2 HP LaserJet 4MV's for 450 quid each, practically new (in use
standards). It was a seller's (auctioneer's) market.
Sad really.
Ben
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Andrew Toone
>
> In article <372991DD...@disintegration.org>,
> gb...@disintegration.org (graham boyd) wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very
> > > much
> > > by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
> >
> > Was it worth going? I was considering trying to pick up some of the
> > Sun kit, but I had no idea if the bidding was starting at some
> > baseline or not. Either way it certainly would have been too much of
> > a lottery for me to spend all day there. :(
>
Example price.. Pentium 166, 32Mb Ram, Nokia Monitor, No cd-rom (!)
two hundred and sixty pounds + 10% + VAT = Ł336. Madness. Pure
madness. But you're not allowed to heckle the punters so I left.
Not a very good example of the astute business minds in Cambridge. :)
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The "similar" lots thing was a joke - they were purely basing it on the clock
speed so someone could pick up the first P1xx for 250 and then get subsequent
ones as an option - often with vastly superior monitors which was the real
difference...so you had to buy three machines to get hold of one with a 21"
monitor. The auctioneer knew nothing, which wasn't his fault.
A bad case of excitement on the most part. Fools who knew nothing.
I did have a good laugh though when an apple powerbook, worth about 20 quid
went for 200+.
Ray
In article <372991DD...@disintegration.org>,
gb...@disintegration.org wrote:
> Phil Rodgers wrote:
> >
> > Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very much
> > by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
>
> Was it worth going? I was considering trying to pick up some of the
> Sun kit, but I had no idea if the bidding was starting at some
> baseline or not. Either way it certainly would have been too much of
> a lottery for me to spend all day there. :(
>
> graham
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David Damerell
>rod...@cix.co.uk (Phil Rodgers) wrote:
>>Well, apart from appearing briefly on local TV, I didn't achieve very
>>much by attending the Ionica auction. Did anyone buy anything?
I feel much better; I had planned to go, but was sick that day...
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Richard Meredith
ne...@fenrir.demon.co.uk (Brian Morrison) wrote:
> And the Cowley Road parking situation (never good) had to be seen to be
> believed. Reminded me of the Agricultural machinery auction
> Mondays.....
Especially when the council decided it'd be an excellent day to resurface
the road..
Ben
Address in.sig}" <no...@llondel.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:29:48 +0100, Andrew Toone wrote:
> >
> >Example price.. Pentium 166, 32Mb Ram, Nokia Monitor, No cd-rom (!)
> >two hundred and sixty pounds + 10% + VAT =3D =9C336. Madness. Pure
> >madness. But you're not allowed to heckle the punters so I left.
> >Not a very good example of the astute business minds in Cambridge. :)
> >
> No, but extremely amusing to watch. Various people from work nipped
> over during the day for short periods and we were all kept updated as
> to the latest example of idiocy.
I was the bloke who disolved into hysterical laughter when that gimp in
suit paid over 2400 for each of four Ultra 2's. If looks could have
killed...