About to do something very silly...

[Allotriophagy]

...I really should close my eBay account.

 

[xJulianx]

You not going to sell your Mac Pro/Power Mac are you?! 😱

 

[siurpeeman]

i get the feeling you're about to buy something?

 

[Allotriophagy]

In a few minutes, I might be the owner of nine G4 PowerMacs...

 

[hidea]

ok, THAT, is NOT stupid. It's COOOL!

 

[Allotriophagy]

Four minutes to go...got to get into SNIPER MODE...

 

[xJulianx]

In a few minutes, I might be the owner of nine G4 PowerMacs...

😱 Eeeek!

I'm not going to be as rude to ask you how much those are costing, but out of interest is someone selling a job lot of them or are you buying them from seperate listings?

And another question, what do you intend to do with 9 of them? Keep some, sell some? Sounds exciting anyway.

 

[Allotriophagy]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220080735403

I was willing to pay up to £420 but they went for £485.

Would have been fun to fix them all up and sell them on. PC100/133 RAM is cheap, so shoving 1Gb in would have been easy enough. Replacing dodgy DVD drives is easy too. I figured I'd be able to make a small profit or at least break even. But paying more than £45 for each machine would have been silly - they have no keyboards, mice or power cords, I have no idea about what gfx cards they have, that sort of thing.

Would have given me something fun to do over the next few weeks.

 

[xJulianx]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220080735403

I was willing to pay up to £420 but they went for £485.

Would have been fun to fix them all up and sell them on. PC100/133 RAM is cheap, so shoving 1Gb in would have been easy enough. Replacing dodgy DVD drives is easy too. I figured I'd be able to make a small profit or at least break even. But paying more than £45 for each machine would have been silly - they have no keyboards, mice or power cords, I have no idea about what gfx cards they have, that sort of thing.

Would have given me something fun to do over the next few weeks.

Ahhh cool, I was considering doing exactly the same thing with a job lot of PC towers I found on eBay, but decided on saving the money. Sounds like a fun thing to do though.

 

[Allotriophagy]

I wouldn't have risked it with PCs!

eBay really irritates me. I was also looking at this auction and with six days left, some new user has bid it up to £150 already. Bleh.

Think I will abandon my G4 refurb plans and concentrate on finding a working BeBox or NeXT machine.

 

[xJulianx]

I wouldn't have risked it with PCs!

eBay really irritates me. I was also looking at this auction and with six days left, some new user has bid it up to £150 already. Bleh.

Think I will abandon my G4 refurb plans and concentrate on finding a working BeBox or NeXT machine.

I thought the PC's would spark a reaction around here 😀 I was going to "do up" PC's over Mac's because I have a greater knowledge of PC hardware and putting them together etc, I built my own aswell as my brothers so yeah.