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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,652 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good Grief!!! Whatever next? Perhaps I can sell some of my old floppies this way. They are event older than this disk!  | | | <---------Mithrandir, Laverne and Shirley
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
But there aren't literally millions of that little stamp out there for collectors like there are copies of that AOL diskette. It isn't the same thing at all. Scarcity of an item has everything to do with what someone would pay for it. The diskette are rare since the great majority of the people just trash them or just reformat them. But I'll certainly never buy a 5000$ diskette I have more important use for my money. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
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It's GOT to be a joke. His/her "Buy it now" price is $4,995. Surely nobody thinks those old discs are worth $.00 much less $4,995.
You know how collectors are, they willingly pay mor than 2 million US$ for a little stamp which you can't even use anymore. Compared to this 5.ooo for a useless disk is quite a bargain. Who says you can't use the stamp? It's still a valid postage stamp. It would just be a letter with the most postage ever paid  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | Thorsten | | | | Last edited: by kahless |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Who says you can't use the stamp? It's still a valid postage stamp. It would just be a letter with the most postage ever paid . OK, I'll PM you my postal-adress and wait for your letter  | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
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It's GOT to be a joke. His/her "Buy it now" price is $4,995. Surely nobody thinks those old discs are worth $.00 much less $4,995.
You know how collectors are, they willingly pay mor than 2 million US$ for a little stamp which you can't even use anymore. Compared to this 5.ooo for a useless disk is quite a bargain.
But there aren't literally millions of that little stamp out there for collectors like there are copies of that AOL diskette. It isn't the same thing at all. Scarcity of an item has everything to do with what someone would pay for it. It won't be worth much after the post office has "cancelled" it!  | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | Auction completed, no sale. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Surprise, surprise! | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
It won't be worth much after the post office has "cancelled" it! Not strictly true. I don't collect stamps any more, but I seem to recall some are so rare that even if they are cancelled collectors still consider them valuable. Maybe not $2million but much more than $5k. I don't know about any other countries, but as Max said, any US stamp is still valid postage. Though why anyone would use an expensive collectible stamp on a current letter is probably a kid who got into his dad's stamp collection. The same is true for US Currency and coinage - it's still valid at face value, no matter how old it is. At least the US Government considers it valid. You might have trouble at some store getting a teenage clerk to accept a bill from the 1800s. They sometimes don't know if they can accept recent money! | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | Confederate currency isn't valid. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 402 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have some old 8 inch floppies around here somewhere..... |
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