$100 for an Intel TD8088 on EBAY?

[gmphillips3]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5148602977&rd=1

I have this chip priced at $8 in like new condition in my collectors guide!

Netcomponents shows about 14,000 of these still in stock around the world.

If we compute the value of a "rare" chip where there's only say 14
listed in stock on netcomponents, the "rare" chip should be valued
at $100 * 1000 = $100,000!!!

There's actually a C4004 currently listed on netcomponents, so
we can extrapolate it's value to be 14,000 * $100.00 or $1,400,000.00!!!

Pass me the caviar and truffles! It's party time!

[popo]

Well, in this logic.
I brought my C4004 for $310 is an incredible cheaply price.

[gshv]

I agree, $100 for the TD8088 is way overpriced. I think your estimate of $8 for the new TD8088 is too low. It's not difficult to sell like-new D8086 or D8088 on eBay for 8 bucks, and TD8088 certainly is more rare and doesn't appear on eBay as often as those D808x processors. I'd price it at $20.

And as we started to talk about high prices... Does anybody want MC6800L for $499? -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5156140062&rd=1

Gennadiy

[jrmunro]

I`m glad I didn`t win the TD8088. I don`t know what i was thinking when
I made that bid.

John

[Did2a]

Well,
I won this Item. I'm agree it is expensive. My limit on the auction was $100, and unfortunatly for me it became the final price.
But... In my small island it is very very very very difficult to find an rareful CPU, it was the reason because 3 years ago I took the decision to spent money each month on Ebay. I have one limit, and If I was bidding on another more rareful auction when the TD8088 came on Ebay, perhaps I didn't bid more than $40 on this CPU.
If I prefer generally to trade with other collector, I'm very happy each time I can win on Ebay an Cpu that I could never see or touch in Corsica.

I'm sorry for the very temporaly effect on the CPU quotation...

[gmphillips3]

No problem Did2a

I was just in a bidding war for a Zilog Z80, an early one marked 'DALLAS' and ran the bid up to $356 before I bailed out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5153949481&ssPageName=ADME:X:ON:US:2

I don't know what the buyer was willing to pay for that CPU but he was
not showing any signs of backing down.

If I had won that chip for $356, a lot of people would have said I spent too much, but you don't see that chip very often.

But then you don't see TD8088's that often either. I've actually seen
more C4004's on EBAY than TD8088's over the last few years.

What I have noticed is that some chips, even if there are many of them
still listed in stock, don't show up very often. I think it's probably because
a lot of the distributors have something like a $500 min order.

This min. order business keeps a lot of chips off the market. One day,
they will show up, but when, nobody knows.

[CPUShack]

Thats why I do group buys

[chipcollector]

See this is what I mean. If you waited a bit before you bid like 8923479287280972 times there's a good chance that chip may have been yours, and a whole lot cheaper.
My example is the bidding history. See how timepicgamescom put a max bid of $250? If only you let him stay at his max bid, and then close to the end of the auction you put the max bid of $351 ( that you had placed ) you would have won the chip, and at $100 cheaper.
No offense but this is a very poor way of bidding. At the end of the auction it'll end up hurting you ( Losing ) and the opponent ( Paying more $$). It's only good for sellers

[gmphillips3]

I think you may be right chipcollector. The guy I was bidding against obviously had no idea what he was willing to pay and kept changing his mind every time I would outbid him and then he would bid again.

On the otherhand, I kept thinking, there's no way he will pay $150 for this chip, then I was sure he wouldn't go over $200, then I was positive no one in their right mind would outbid me at $250, etc, etc.