Steve B wrote:
he should just reduce the offer down to 25 of his best units and put them up for bid in one lot
Well yes, but that sort of negates the whole idea of offloading the entire
collection in one fell swoop. It also leaves the seller with the headache of
getting rid of around 775 machines of very low value. Scanning the
collection, I saw a whole lot of handhelds, at least one with an LCD screen,
and a couple of other games (backgammon and reversi, I think). A lot of
stuff like Fidelity 'doorstoppers', eg '8', '9', and '10' level units. Let's not
forget, not all the machines work.
Let's say someone made an opening bid of 30K euro for just 25 machines,
they are offering around 1200 euro per machine. I can't see anyone
offering that much, not in this economic climate.
Regarding the remaining 775 machines, they would be best sold to a
fellow German, so that a small truck could be rented and stacked up with
chess computers.The new owner would then have the burden of
storing/photographing/advertising and packaging all that stuff. I hope
he's got a lot of spare time. If he sold 6 units/week the collection would
be gone in about two and a half years.
I've got a great idea for the seller. He can sell me the following:
V10 500 euro
Excel Mach4 200 euro
Designer Mach4 150 euro
Fidelity Elite 100 euro.
Genius modules 100 euro
That adds up to 1050 euro. I would even contribute 20 euro towards
the shipping. Can't be fairer than that.
Larry
