{"id":215,"date":"2011-04-11T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:46:23","slug":"ebay-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Auctions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a recently published auction came across my attention&#8230; (wow, I am not sure how that is going to come across&#8230; but screw it&#8230; )<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple IIgs Woz Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Apple-IIgs-Signature-Edition-\/220763343300#ht_500wt_993\">Apple IIgs Woz Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many things wrong with this particular auction&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A seller rating of zero? Really?<\/li>\n<li>No in-depth pictures. Who knows what the condition of the system board is, or if it even exists.<\/li>\n<li>A woz edition IIgs is not really all that special. I used to have one&#8230; I would prefer to have a ROM 03 version of a IIgs, frankly.<\/li>\n<li>The cost&#8230; well, it is laughable. I know that these things can go for a tenth of the cost, and have seen them go for even less.<\/li>\n<li>The shipping cost is also laughable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So in the end, this is a ridiculous auction, and the only people that are going to make any money off of it is Ebay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a recently published auction came across my attention&#8230; (wow, I am not sure how that is going to come across&#8230; but screw it&#8230; ) Apple IIgs Woz Edition There are so many things wrong with this particular auction&#8230; A seller rating of zero? Really? No in-depth pictures. Who knows what the condition of the system board is, or if it even exists. A woz edition IIgs is not really all that special. I used to have one&#8230; I would prefer to have a ROM 03 version of a IIgs, frankly. The cost&#8230; well, it is laughable. I know that these things can go for a tenth of the cost, and have seen them go for even less. The shipping cost is also laughable. So in the end, this is a ridiculous auction, and the only people that are going to make any money off of it is Ebay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}