In my recent experience of looking for an upgrade to a Macintosh Mini on eBay, it’s become very clear that hardly anyone is doing research on current prices for items before they bid. I mean, time after time, I saw people paying anywhere from $50-300 MORE for a USED, 1-2+ year old box than they would for a brand new core2Duo mini. Some of them were even paying more for a G4 for pete’s sake!

I don’t get it… I mean… what gives? Thats like paying MORE for a car on some sloppy used car lot, than buying a brand new one for the same price or less, with a warranty and that “new car smell.” (Not that you have that new car smell with a computer, but…) Are people that caught up in the whole “It’s on eBay so it has to be a deal” that they don’t bother researching prices?? Sure, some of the rigs came with some extras, such as software+license, but I’m not talking about those… these were run of the mill 1.6ghz coreDuo (not core2Duo) machines, with only a single 512mb stick of memory, selling for $600, $700, even $800… no keyboard.. no mouse… no nothing… hell.. some even didn’t have the original packaging and recovery CDs…

Maybe I am thinking too logically again…