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KC9UDX said:
Are people really buying them like that?
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This listing started in 2012 and they sold one with a best offer. They're not really buying them like this :)

That said, I have purchased a Commodore 128 keyboard once for less than this but the value of the computer is a little higher.
 
KC9UDX said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/13060038142...id=100303&rk=8&rkt=8&mehot=lo&sd=271885960783

I don't get all worked up about people listing things for sale on eBay with high prices. But there just seems to be something fishy about disassembled C64 parts selling for twice the price of a C64. There seems to be a lot of them selling.

Are people really buying them like that?
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My best guess on why people buy parts:
1. Cuts down on shipping costs
2. Eliminates psychic cost of destroying a fully working machine, when you only need a few things
3. Allows one to conserve a beloved machine instead of replacing it with a whole new unit that doesn't love them.

Why the prices are higher:
1. The benefits mentioned above are in higher demand than we suspect.
2. Sellers have determined that people will happily willingly and excitedly pay those prices.
3. It keeps those parts in "stock" on eBay.

- Bo
 
There are quite a few sold recently not necessarily by that seller.

I have a breadbin model that really needs a new circuit board (too many bad parts to bother fixing). I suppose I could sell the immaculate keyboard and buy two new C64s. Of course I could sell the fried SID as "untested pulled from a machine that worked just two years ago) and buy another C64. I've got a box of "untested" bricks. I wonder what else I could sell from it.

I tried to sell the board from a 1541 for the price of shipping and someone actually complained to me that I was asking too much! Speaking of which, if anyone wants one you can have it. The CPU and RAM are missing. I hate to "recycle" it. Someone somewhere can make use of it.
 
That's not a C64 keyboard, is it? The light gray/ dark gray ones are for the C16. It will work, just the colors are wrong. I could make use of your 1541 controller. I have a 1541 drive around here somewhere that reads and writes just fine, but absolutely refuses to format a disk. Makes a good second drive, but I could fix it, I guess. Eventually. ;)
 
I don't know, it looks like a C64C keyboard to me. I've only seen a C16 once in 1994, but I seem to recall the keyboard was the same but the case was a different colour.

That sure is a strange problem with the 1541. I'll have to find that board and I'll send you a PM. If you don't hear from me for a while send me one because I probably forgot. :mad:
 
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