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Old 08-30-2018, 10:24 AM
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TMK portable color

Found a new in the box TMK 755C portable on ebay. The seller only wants $16,000. for it, is that a good buy, but wait it's rare and I think free shipping.
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Old 08-30-2018, 02:15 PM
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If he wont ship free screw him.
BTW Toyomenkas were surprisingly good sets.

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Old 08-30-2018, 02:53 PM
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$16k for anything that ain't pre-wwII is only a good deal if there's free shipping and you happen to live on Mars...
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:08 PM
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In non-English speaking countries 16,000 = 16.
But if the price is sixteen thousand U.S. Dollars... then is madness.
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Old 08-30-2018, 04:14 PM
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That seller has lots of stuff for ridiculous prices on eBay. Fishing attempt...
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Old 08-30-2018, 04:30 PM
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Madness it is:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-TMK...gAAOSwGltaqdn2

not affiliated,

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Old 08-31-2018, 02:36 PM
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Several years ago, someone on a camera collectors' forum pointed out an EBay auction for a Polaroid One Step with a starting bid of $10,000. The One Step was a bottom-of-the-line camera that sold for about $20 when new, and by this time, would be seen in thrift stores for a few dollars and on EBay where auctions with $5 minimum bids ended without a bidder.
Everyone on our board laughed, but someone actually met the $10K minimum.
We speculated that the One Step was actually a ruse for some other commodity understood in a circle of traders.

There is a gas station near me that sells new wristwatches from a display and the watches are priced in the $200-400 range. The watches look gaudy, but cheap. I'm suspecting that the actual product is something other than the watch.
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Old 08-31-2018, 03:51 PM
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I did a stretch of hard time selling TV's at Sears. "Dreamers" A.K.A
illegals would buy gift cards with cash sometimes over 1K at a
time. And that was just at my register. There must be billions getting
laundered that way. Another one is in the cities big bottles of
Tide detergent are used as a currency.

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Several years ago, someone on a camera collectors' forum pointed out an EBay auction for a Polaroid One Step with a starting bid of $10,000. The One Step was a bottom-of-the-line camera that sold for about $20 when new, and by this time, would be seen in thrift stores for a few dollars and on EBay where auctions with $5 minimum bids ended without a bidder.
Everyone on our board laughed, but someone actually met the $10K minimum.
We speculated that the One Step was actually a ruse for some other commodity understood in a circle of traders.

There is a gas station near me that sells new wristwatches from a display and the watches are priced in the $200-400 range. The watches look gaudy, but cheap. I'm suspecting that the actual product is something other than the watch.
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