Well you can't blame people for making lowball offers.
This is rather offensive for the effort you put at the activity. Your time and effort have a value, especially for those who are not recyclers and don't want to smash stuff.
You say * I wanted to make some space * ok, but for the same purpose, if am I am offered 10 euro, I am really tempted to save my effort and time by smashing the board, rather than spending time at testing, repairing and restoring the electronic, cleaning and polishing the plastic, documenting everything, and giving sort of assistance to "customers".
on eBay I listed the board for 100 euro + s/h, giving people the possibility to negotiate for a discount. I sold two of these items with -30% off (70 euro), and with -50% off (50 euro) at Xmas.
And that's fine, but * offering 10 euro *?!? WTF, it's -90% discount and the get off price must have a minimal border below the which you are really looking like Santa Claus.
Companies like Newark have always listed the board for a starting price of 400 euro (+ VAT), without giving software (opensource + customizations), neither assistance.
Personally, I prefer it when prices are lower, it's more fun to buy/sell/trade hobby stuff when there isn't a ton of money tied up in it. I don't need to get rich from my hobbies
a ton of money? Have you ever contacted companies like
wildfiresystems? they offer refurbished HP and SUN workstations, with warranty, assistance, and professional packaging. I do too.
Look at their price list: an HP C3750/8Gbyte ram/2x80Gbyte HD is listed for 1600 euro + VAT + S/H, whereas I have always offered it for 500 euro (VAT already included) + S/H with the same specs.
And I have recently got two ridiculous offers in the range ~ 50..100 euro
This opens the doors to the bad attitudes like what happened on the marketplace of a forum like Nekochan where guys usually want an O2+ for 100 euro + S/H, cause this must be the range of budget to be allocated for their hobby.
I refused since those activities were my second core business done honestly for a living, and the workstation we are talking about was a restored R12K@400Mhz/1Gbyte ram/and DCD kit (extremely rare to be found in working conditions); it had cost me a lot of time, effort, and money, thus, in order to avoid a negative gain, I was expecting a minimal offer of 500 Euro, but one of those guys was so *
brilliant * (sarcasm) that he thought hardware must be given away for cheap, thus for his concept of "fair price" when he saw my offer on eBay he informed the mod of Nekochan that there were two offers of the same item in two different places: eBay and Nekochan. Now, on Nekochan you can't include software for their policy, which was respected by the announcement on their forum, whereas on eBay I was offering the workstation with the hard drive loaded with the software I found installed in the machine when I picked up it from a company.
and I am talking about Autodesk's, so ... do you know what happened? Do you guess how it ended?
mr brilliant must have informed eBay(1) cause I one day later I got an alarming message about a suspicious software found in one of my auctions, and eBay reacted suspending my account for verification. Someone must have told it was warez. It was not, but this story ended with the cost of two weeks of suspension, 122 euro paid to a third party company to provide a written proof the software was not warez, and a lot of time wasted.
(1) eBay confirmed they got informed by someone, but they can't reveal who was the source due to the privacy policy. Do you want to know whom you have to thank? You need to quote them in a court case. No thanks.
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