Day Brown wrote: > > The dot.com bust closed down a lotta offices in the states, > and that meant that a lotta hardware got seized for back rent, > and then dumped on the surplus market.
Fortunately/unfortunately, New Zealand missed out on most of the dot.com bubble. > I see 2 gig drives for 25$ USD. Hmm... US$25. Add US$10 for shipping to the other side of the world. That makes US$35. Convert to $NZ (don't forget the bank's commission). NZ$90. Add the 12.5% tax (yes the NZ tax goes on the shipping as well). That takes the total cost over NZ$100. Just to put that in perspective, I went shopping yesterday and bought 10kg (22 pounds) of potatoes, five ears of corn, a loaf of bread and a litre (quart) of milk for a toal of $10. Oh, BTW, once I've paid $100 for that secondhand HD, what do I do when I find it doesn't work? That's assuming the guy on Ebay actually sends me the HD after taking my money. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
