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From: Lozzo on 23 Mar 2010 14:12 CT wrote: > Simon Wilson wrote: > > > I nearly fell foul of that when I liberated a nearly complete RD250 > > from a skip. > > Was it outside Lozzo's house? You think I'd give anything away? -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: malc on 23 Mar 2010 15:06 darsy wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:01:30 -0500, Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> > wrote: > >> ogden wrote: >> >>> They took our elitist technocracy and we want it back! zOMG! >> >> Same thing happened to CB radio... > > which is still - insanely - still a going thing, I'm told. Children's Band still going? Good heavens. Amateur radio I can understand but CB should have dies when mobile phones came along. -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: malc on 23 Mar 2010 15:11 Higgins wrote: > Champ wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:08:02 -0000, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >> >>>> Just don't be tempted by Freecycle - despite the fact that they >>>> are getting it for nothing , the demands are even less reasonable >>>> than ebay. >> >>> Ain't that the truth. It was alright when I was in Maidenhead but >>> since moving back in to central London I've given up on Freecycle >>> completely. >> >> ah. >> >> I was hoping to Freecycle a big old CRT TV. >> > Good luck with that. I couldn't give one away, a couple of years ago. Coughs. I got a 30 something inch wide screen CRT off Freecycle a couple of years ago. It stills works fine so I have no reason to change it. -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: Jim on 23 Mar 2010 15:43 On 23/03/2010 16:14, Pip wrote: > I got out of mine while the going was good ... in a traditional way, I > got a mate of mine to stick an ad for it on the blackboard he props > outside his house. Two days later, punter pops up and waddles off with > my beloved 32" widescreen Panasonic, which I'd paid ~1500 quid for a > few years previously for the princely sum of 150 notes. > > Better than giving it away I suppose, but it didn't feel like it at the > time. It's better to get used to the idea that consumer electronics depreciate to almost zero within the first 6 months. The exception that proves this rule is that I made �50 once selling old 10base2 network cables and cards to some idiot.
From: 'Hog on 23 Mar 2010 16:17
Jim wrote: > On 23/03/2010 16:14, Pip wrote: >> I got out of mine while the going was good ... in a traditional way, >> I got a mate of mine to stick an ad for it on the blackboard he props >> outside his house. Two days later, punter pops up and waddles off >> with my beloved 32" widescreen Panasonic, which I'd paid ~1500 quid >> for a few years previously for the princely sum of 150 notes. >> >> Better than giving it away I suppose, but it didn't feel like it at >> the time. > > It's better to get used to the idea that consumer electronics > depreciate to almost zero within the first 6 months. > > The exception that proves this rule is that I made �50 once selling > old 10base2 network cables and cards to some idiot. I passed the Heart Foundation charidee shop in York and noticed shelves of CRT TV's with FOAD sizes around �85. -- Hog |