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Re: Omnisky Palm V Wireless Modem F/S - $200 + s/h

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From: Andrew Miller
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:00
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In article <8ighd5$5fo$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, ZBUDDHA 
<zbuddha@nospam.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> assuming you are right, whats cheap about it? if $299 is the going price 
> and
> he's selling it for $200, whats wrong with that? if you bought a house 
> for
> $70,000 5 years ago and the market price today is $400,000, would you 
> sell
> yours for less than what you paid for?

so I'm trying to think of a single piece of computer equipement that is 
worth more than five times its original cost five years later.  Seems 
like this is a pretty terrible analogy you've tried to draw.

-- 
Andy Miller
http://www.zone360.com              
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From: Andrew Miller <andy@zone360.nospam.com>
Subject: Re: Omnisky Palm V Wireless Modem F/S - $200 + s/h
Date: 2000/06/17
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