Re: (Oops!) Re: Should we get back to this Coburlin issue again? Message #22 Posted by GWB on 30 June 2005, 12:11 p.m., in response to message #21 by Ron
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When you find a non-Chinese 12C, you'll trade the mint 11C straight across - Right? I mean, we're all just as willing to trade down, as to trade up - Right? Because if we're only willing to trade up, that would seem to put us into the same category as what's-his-name. :^0
As a rule I don't trade, neither down nor up. In fact, I did not want to trade that 12C. I just found an 11C announced on a local e-auction as like new and made a bid (the auction ended about USD $100.00). During the auction, the seller said he wanted a 12C, so I offered mine. After the auction, I warned him mine was a poor quality Chinese one, he said there was no problem, because he needed a 12C for his work. When he received the 12C he liked it very much.
When I was a student, like many others, I would sell an older calculator to buy a new one. The only calculator I sold recently (3 month ago), was a never used silver bezel 32Sii, sold for about $80.00 dollars (the same amount I had paid) to someone here who wanted it so much, because I have a Brown Bezel I like it better - but that was before I started collecting them. Anyway, I don't want to have each and every model, most likely my collection will never have more than 12 items. (However I appreciate those collections that include even all different ROM versions of the same model)
What I have so far:
1 HP-11C; 1 HP-15C; 1 HP-32SII; 1 HP-35; 1 HP-42S; 1 HP 48GX and 2 HP82240B IR printers, one new in box (but these don't count);
... and what is missing:
an HP-12C, an HP-28S, an HP-55, an HP-67, and, of course, an HP41CV or CX. (But please don't offer them to me now, as currently I am neither purchasing nor trading.)
Best regards,
Gerson.
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