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RE: Your best deals - brickviking - 12-19-2017 02:31 AM
(12-18-2017 06:25 PM)AndiGer Wrote: You can make another "good deal" at TAS these days ...
Michael Eckstein is selling his HP-35 red-dot, 1143A00100.
Look for article no. 173038780722
Andi
Five thousand dollars!!! Wow. The next red-dot entry in the list when I simply hunt for HP-35, is only 1.3% of that cost. Yeesh. He must think that the one born every minute must be filthy rich!
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RE: Your best deals - Michael de Estrada - 12-20-2017 05:39 AM
(12-19-2017 02:31 AM)brickviking Wrote:(12-18-2017 06:25 PM)AndiGer Wrote: You can make another "good deal" at TAS these days ...
Michael Eckstein is selling his HP-35 red-dot, 1143A00100.
Look for article no. 173038780722
Andi
Five thousand dollars!!! Wow. The next red-dot entry in the list when I simply hunt for HP-35, is only 1.3% of that cost. Yeesh. He must think that the one born every minute must be filthy rich!
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Yes, it’s a lot of money, but it’s also the rarest of the rare collectible calculators. So, I don’t agree with your implication that someone willing to pay the price is necessarily a sucker. I think the real suckers are people willing to pay $500 for an HP 15c LE.
RE: Your best deals - grsbanks - 12-20-2017 08:11 AM
(12-20-2017 05:39 AM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:(12-19-2017 02:31 AM)brickviking Wrote: Five thousand dollars!!! Wow. The next red-dot entry in the list when I simply hunt for HP-35, is only 1.3% of that cost. Yeesh. He must think that the one born every minute must be filthy rich!
Yes, it’s a lot of money, but it’s also the rarest of the rare collectible calculators. So, I don’t agree with your implication that someone willing to pay the price is necessarily a sucker. I think the real suckers are people willing to pay $500 for an HP 15c LE.
You can look at it two ways.
If you look at it as a 45-year-old bug-ridden calculator then I would agree that you'd need to be one hell of a sucker to buy it.
If, on the other hand, you look at it as a unique and irreplaceable piece of computing history then you really wish you had 5 grand knocking about somewhere. I certainly do!
RE: Your best deals - HP-Collection - 12-20-2017 08:30 AM
Will do a grow-founding or a kickstarter for that Ebay-Deal.... Nooo, sorry, but For that price absolutly not interesting. I have several RedDots, all bought for reasonable prices.
RE: Your best deals - Massimo Gnerucci - 12-20-2017 10:44 AM
(12-20-2017 08:30 AM)HP-Collection Wrote: Will do a grow-founding or a kickstarter for that Ebay-Deal.... Nooo, sorry, but For that price absolutly not interesting. I have several RedDots, all bought for reasonable prices.
Yep!
And, regarding this thread, mine cost me 100USD, with accessories, shipping included.
RE: Your best deals - Maximilian Hohmann - 12-20-2017 11:05 AM
(12-20-2017 10:44 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote: And, regarding this thread, mine cost me 100USD, with accessories, shipping included.
I would say this qualifies for the title: Best HP calculator deal ever :-)
(Personally I have already buried the hope to ever own a "red dot", my collection will always remain incomplete in that resepect.) 5000 Dollars? This must be about what I paid for my 1000 calculators togther including all the HPs!
RE: Your best deals - Michael Eckstein - 12-20-2017 03:14 PM
(12-20-2017 08:30 AM)HP-Collection Wrote: Will do a grow-founding or a kickstarter for that Ebay-Deal.... Nooo, sorry, but For that price absolutly not interesting. I have several RedDots, all bought for reasonable prices.
There are many other interesting deals, for example $2.000.000 for a tiny piece of old paper with blue print and many others :-)
Maybe $5000 for a one of four existing calculators is better than $20.000 for currently very desired nothing represented by virtual bits?
RE: Your best deals - grsbanks - 12-20-2017 03:17 PM
(12-20-2017 03:14 PM)Michael Eckstein Wrote: Maybe $5000 for a one of four existing calculators is better than $20.000 for currently very desired nothing represented by virtual bits?
If I had $5k knocking about, that HP-35 would no longer be on TAS. What's more, I'd fly to Prague to collect it in person!
RE: Your best deals - badaze - 12-20-2017 06:04 PM
(12-20-2017 03:17 PM)grsbanks Wrote:I was in Prague last summer. I only found 2 East German calculators not even the shadow of an HP. Sure they store them in safes.(12-20-2017 03:14 PM)Michael Eckstein Wrote: Maybe $5000 for a one of four existing calculators is better than $20.000 for currently very desired nothing represented by virtual bits?
If I had $5k knocking about, that HP-35 would no longer be on TAS. What's more, I'd fly to Prague to collect it in person!
RE: Your best deals - Massimo Gnerucci - 12-20-2017 08:11 PM
(12-20-2017 11:05 AM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:(12-20-2017 10:44 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote: And, regarding this thread, mine cost me 100USD, with accessories, shipping included.
I would say this qualifies for the title: Best HP calculator deal ever :-)
(Personally I have already buried the hope to ever own a "red dot", my collection will always remain incomplete in that resepect.) 5000 Dollars? This must be about what I paid for my 1000 calculators togther including all the HPs!
I found the correct amount: 100$ = 77.15$ + 22.85$ shipping.
RE: Your best deals - pier4r - 12-20-2017 09:40 PM
Little note. The 50g deal on ebay kleinanzeigen went gone on Monday. I hope someone saw my post and bought the thing.
RE: Your best deals - BruceH - 12-20-2017 11:02 PM
Best deal?
An HP38G+ bought on eBay for the price of an HP38G, i.e not much. I can understand the seller not knowing what they had, but was surprised that no collector had noticed it. Waiting for the auction to end was excruciating!
There's a picture in the thread here for those unfamiliar with this rarity - only 3 or 4 known to exist.
And before you ask, I swapped it (with a much more obsessive^Wdedicated collector than I) for a mint Casio 601P - something that I had lusted after at school but could never afford. So a double 'best deal', IMHO.
RE: Your best deals - hth - 12-21-2017 12:45 AM
I made the best deal every time I bought a new HP-41.
Best calculator ever! I have never regretted what I payed for one. Excellent value for the money and all (4) bought new at asked list price.
Håkan
RE: Your best deals - Massimo Gnerucci - 12-21-2017 07:59 AM
(12-20-2017 11:02 PM)BruceH Wrote: Best deal?
An HP38G+ bought on eBay for the price of an HP38G, i.e not much. I can understand the seller not knowing what they had, but was surprised that no collector had noticed it. Waiting for the auction to end was excruciating!
There's a picture in the thread here for those unfamiliar with this rarity - only 3 or 4 known to exist.
And before you ask, I swapped it (with a much more obsessive^Wdedicated collector than I) for a mint Casio 601P - something that I had lusted after at school but could never afford. So a double 'best deal', IMHO.
So you were the one! :)
RE: Your best deals - Francois Lanciault - 12-21-2017 05:21 PM
My best deals:
HP-42S : Free
Hp-9815S : 15$
HP-9845B : 15$
François
RE: Your best deals - toml_12953 - 12-22-2017 01:22 AM
(12-20-2017 10:44 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:(12-20-2017 08:30 AM)HP-Collection Wrote: Will do a grow-founding or a kickstarter for that Ebay-Deal.... Nooo, sorry, but For that price absolutly not interesting. I have several RedDots, all bought for reasonable prices.
Yep!
And, regarding this thread, mine cost me 100USD, with accessories, shipping included.
And you could sell every one of them for $5K apiece!
RE: Your best deals - d b - 12-22-2017 01:52 AM
(12-21-2017 12:45 AM)hth Wrote: I made the best deal every time I bought a new HP-41.I could not agree more. Despite the things that HP could have done better, had they had a crystal ball; it was and is simply without compare.
Best calculator ever! I have never regretted what I payed for one. Excellent value for the money and all (4) bought new at asked list price.
Håkan
RE: Your best deals - Marc van Lemmen - 12-22-2017 07:14 PM
My best deal was a working HP-21 for 1 Euro ( 1,18 $) on a flee market, a HP-22 for free and a TI-59 for free.
Marc.
RE: Your best deals - TheKaneB - 01-02-2018 11:50 PM
My best deal so far has been a HP 15C for € 20, sold as not working, it only had dead batteries. Works like a champion!
My second best is my 50G, bought new a few years ago for €60, now on ebay you can find those used for over 200-250 €!
RE: Your best deals - pier4r - 01-08-2018 09:58 AM
(01-02-2018 11:50 PM)TheKaneB Wrote: My second best is my 50G, bought new a few years ago for €60, now on ebay you can find those used for over 200-250 €!
On kleinanzeigen in Germany there are always a couple around 50 euro.
Anyway little obervation. What I am going to say is valid for everything that is still funktioning though.
It is really a pity to see truckloads of seemingly working, the TI that are quite common, really ignored. While finding a 50g around 50 euro could be hard, I could buy 3 ti89 with 15 euro. The problem is, what do I do with them then? I already have one and I barely use it (same for the ti nspire, that is clumsy to get lua answers back to the pc). I want to use what I have.
Same for other common TI calculators. It seems the same with other common producers (to be honest, casio and TI are way more common than HP and sharp)