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omgggggggg that listing deserves a reporting…
One of them says “Training included”. What kind of training? Perhaps that’s worth the price.
Doesn't seem to work for the UK. Zuckerberg insists that I sign in before proceeding.
I found the MArketplace listings by running a duckduckgo search on “iMac marketplace canada”, and it took me to a direct link within Marketplace. I don’t think I was able to get past a login demand if I entered through the front door. Facebook: still undefeated in its grossness.
Curiously, when I went back and tried again, I’d scroll through the listings up to the point when XHR called the server for more listings to appear, and the screen would get covered by a “you need to log in”. So either they changed something, or else their server saw several requests from my IP and put the big nope on it.
One of them says “Training included”. What kind of training? Perhaps that’s worth the price.
Provided by Jordan Belfort maybe?
(NSFW warning.)
Without even clicking on that clip, I already know I’m not his target market. :cue_one_of_those_rainbow_flags_month_of_june_etc:
I am right now in my home #1.
As usual I double-checked with the local NewEgg-lookalike, it's called "IPON.HU".
If things aren't good, looking for some ebay-kleinanzeigen.de ads in Germany, Ipon.hu in Hungary, NewEgg in USA and Avito.ru in the country many of you "love to hate" or "hate to love".
Because the inflation is in double digits, Apple goofing many things up - and there is a "post-Covid special military operation" nearby, things of course aren't good. Of course, things were never good enough.
But here is a puzzle.
If I look up the sources I am familiar with (see above) - the prices seem to be allright.
But on eBay.com everyone and their cat wants to sell me some 5 year old, used and abused 60GB SSD-s for $120.
When I can buy on IPON (intentionally taking a small country with a small market and huge 27% sales tax) Western Digital Blue 250 GB SSD-s for like... $30. 27% tax included. New and with 3 year factory warranty. Picked up at the store in person.
I intentionally omitted large countries / markets or the fact that if someone has a home outside of the market area country, the sales tax is refunded. But only if the merchandise is unopened and spanking new.
Are these eBay sellers straight from a lunatic asylum?
As usual I double-checked with the local NewEgg-lookalike, it's called "IPON.HU".
If things aren't good, looking for some ebay-kleinanzeigen.de ads in Germany, Ipon.hu in Hungary, NewEgg in USA and Avito.ru in the country many of you "love to hate" or "hate to love".
Because the inflation is in double digits, Apple goofing many things up - and there is a "post-Covid special military operation" nearby, things of course aren't good. Of course, things were never good enough.
But here is a puzzle.
If I look up the sources I am familiar with (see above) - the prices seem to be allright.
But on eBay.com everyone and their cat wants to sell me some 5 year old, used and abused 60GB SSD-s for $120.
When I can buy on IPON (intentionally taking a small country with a small market and huge 27% sales tax) Western Digital Blue 250 GB SSD-s for like... $30. 27% tax included. New and with 3 year factory warranty. Picked up at the store in person.
I intentionally omitted large countries / markets or the fact that if someone has a home outside of the market area country, the sales tax is refunded. But only if the merchandise is unopened and spanking new.
Are these eBay sellers straight from a lunatic asylum?
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It could be that some industrial / embedded stuff requires smaller drives to boot or operate. Maybe they are targetting those clients?
Current Transcend mSATA offerings in 16 - 128 GB range, for example, aren't cheap either.
P.S. Here's another funny brand name for you 😂
Hochwertige Überwachungskameras vom Marktführer Dahua
Ein breites Sortiment von Kameras für die Videoüberwachung bietet der Marktführer Dahua. Überwachungsanlagen für den privaten und gewerblichen Bereich
Yes, "Do Huya" is one of the best brands I know.It could be that some industrial / embedded stuff requires smaller drives to boot or operate. Maybe they are targetting those clients?
Current Transcend mSATA offerings in 16 - 128 GB range, for example, aren't cheap either.
P.S. Here's another funny brand name for you 😂
Hochwertige Überwachungskameras vom Marktführer Dahua
Ein breites Sortiment von Kameras für die Videoüberwachung bietet der Marktführer Dahua. Überwachungsanlagen für den privaten und gewerblichen Bereichwww.blick-store.de
If you ask me: the countries where I would introduce that brand are Baltics, Ukraina, Belarus, Russia.
Fujitsu MO drives are the next: literally Ying and Yang.
But this is not bad either:
IOMEGA 31234408 STREAMER REV-ATAPI 35GB IDE 3.5'' / 5.25'' | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for IOMEGA 31234408 STREAMER REV-ATAPI 35GB IDE 3.5'' / 5.25'' at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
www.ebay.com
BTW: got a few these for like 10 Euro if SATA or ATA and 25 Euro if SCSI.
But maybe that one has indeed some diamonds inside.
And how about a lens cap for $2000?
What a bargain!
I have that lens, with an earlier (original) black lens cap.
Maybe it's worth a mortgage?
Kevin Cameras is known to be rather expensive - but this is clearly over the limit.
What a bargain!
Canon Rangefinder 75mm Chrome Cap for RF 50mm f0.95 #6 | eBay
For more inventories. Photos show product's condition in details, there is no hidden fault. Actually item usually better than what you see now.
www.ebay.com
I have that lens, with an earlier (original) black lens cap.
Maybe it's worth a mortgage?
Kevin Cameras is known to be rather expensive - but this is clearly over the limit.
And how about a lens cap for $2000?
What a bargain!
Canon Rangefinder 75mm Chrome Cap for RF 50mm f0.95 #6 | eBay
For more inventories. Photos show product's condition in details, there is no hidden fault. Actually item usually better than what you see now.www.ebay.com
I have that lens, with an earlier (original) black lens cap.
Maybe it's worth a mortgage?
Kevin Cameras is known to be rather expensive - but this is clearly over the limit.
Hungry glass costs, even in ancillary ways…
Just look at that chonnnnky boi.
That’s, like, some Big Chungus-level stuff. The cap (not sure that’s actually chrome or even chromium, but definitely some kind of exposed metal) completes the set for the well-heeled collector, I reckon.
We're into 2024 and it remains unsold.
The price also remains unchanged. It'll never sell.
Here's another Classic - in both senses of the word. I suppose its got an advantage on the previous listing in that at least it's the Mk II and comparatively a bargain at £1,500 GBP or best offer when placed alongside $19,995.00 USD...
This is interesting.
(I've quoted verbatim from the item description.)
Ok and yet...
Then why would you not replace the dead HDD with a new device of some sort, given the asking price for the item?
This is an indirect admission that they damaged the logic board during the refurbishing work.
At £1,500 GBP everything should be taken care of. The gall of selling it at that price and informing the prospective buyer that it still requires further maintenance.
This is interesting.
(I've quoted verbatim from the item description.)
Ok and yet...
Then why would you not replace the dead HDD with a new device of some sort, given the asking price for the item?
This is an indirect admission that they damaged the logic board during the refurbishing work.
At £1,500 GBP everything should be taken care of. The gall of selling it at that price and informing the prospective buyer that it still requires further maintenance.
Noticed that the price of these dongles have soared. The corresponding TB-ethernet ones still go cheaply. Anyone have any idea why people are shelling out so much for the FW adapter? Surely, for that money they could get one of the earlier multi-port Caldigit etc docks with a lot more to offer?
If I had to guess, iPods and DV camcorders are coming back into fashion, and since Apple no longer sells this specific adapter, used market is taking advantage.
If tech from the aughts is what’s returning to fashion now, as things often do in generational cycles (as kids discover their elders’ stuff), then there are probably still hundreds of thousands of working PowerPC and Intel Macs with a working FireWire port on them — maybe even two or three! And it, plus a FireWire cable, would cost orders less than buying one of these dongles used. Bonus: one could do a lot more with a whole, era-native system than just a dongle with a history of being finicky.
I suspect there may be more to this which we might not be seeing just yet — as in, a very specific use-case, one to have appeared and gone viral on social not too long ago.
The Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter has also soared in price from the £17 GBP that I paid in 2021 to a minimum of £35 and as high as £99. I was hoping that Chinese vendors would create cheaper clones but their prices are only slightly cheaper than the Western minimums. Ah well.
I‘d agree it‘s price/demand. But rather scarcity of supply than viral demand. From my experience, hardly anyone bought those Thunderbolt to FireWire adapters, even when they were new. I think very few of them were made.
DV cameras with FireWire had already been going out of fashion or use. FireWire 800 was beginning to show bandwith limitations with hard drives/storage, USB was more than decent a substitute for external hard drives for consumers. And Thunderbolt the new and future-proof connector for storage for creative professionals.
That left “legacy” workstations and legacy peripherals as its target audience. Notably professional audio interfaces, for which USB was considered inferior. And migration to another connector somewhat slow - let alone adoption of new tech by its users. Contrary to Hi-fi equipment for audio playback, audio producers and DJs can be a (somewhat surprisingly, maybe) „technological conservative“ crowd. More so than video editors, for instance, whose workflows depend on less and more „monolithic“ software/hardware products and are less prone to breakage by software updates or hardware changes.
If I had to guess, I‘d believe these Thunderbolt-FireWire adapters are mainly sought out for use with audio interfaces.
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Back in the day Firewire was faster than USB so if data transfer speeds was important, Firewire it was. I used to take a lot of home video's and pictures on a digital camera and a video camera that had firewire ports on them. I had a video capture box that had a firewire port on it. Transferring video files via firewire was a lot faster than over USB 1.0. I know there was also a lot of audio recording devices that used firewire as well.
Even though I had an Apple laptop at the time (5300c) I used a Windows XP machine because it had a firewire port built onto the motherboard. I had also installed a creative labs sound card that had firewire port on it. Firewire was very useful for me at the time but then companies started making better devices with USB ports on them so I switched to USB and left firewire behind. Still have the XP computer though just incase I ever want to venture back in firewire again
Even though I had an Apple laptop at the time (5300c) I used a Windows XP machine because it had a firewire port built onto the motherboard. I had also installed a creative labs sound card that had firewire port on it. Firewire was very useful for me at the time but then companies started making better devices with USB ports on them so I switched to USB and left firewire behind. Still have the XP computer though just incase I ever want to venture back in firewire again
FireWire 800 is considerably faster than USB 2.0. For many years, well into the era of USB 3.0, whenever I bought an external HDD enclosure, I always ensured wherever possible that it featured FW800.
Firewire has been traditionally faster than USB until USB 3 came out but you look at every computer, they will all have USB 2 ports (black) on them. Many new computers will have USB 3 (blue) BUT the huge majority being USB 2 and yet Firewire is far superior to USB 2 but yet USB is the connector of choice for device makers.FireWire 800 is considerably faster than USB 2.0. For many years, well into the era of USB 3.0, whenever I bought an external HDD enclosure, I always ensured wherever possible that it featured FW800.
Firewire certainly seems to be having a moment as others seem to be jumping on the bandwagon:
Now considering that only the other week or so I got the upper dock thrown in with a Mac Mini and the cables for a sixth of what that seller is asking, I'm not sure that these listings are going to sell any time soon at the asking price. I certainly feel a lot happier with my recent Thunderbolt display, which has a FW port on the back as well.
Having had a scoot around eBay, the TB1/TB2 docks which were offloaded when TB3 came out seem to have been swept up already but you can still find something like this if you really need FW:
My guess is that the Apple dongle hits the sweet spot for those with laptops who don't want to cart a lot of power leads around. Still, I wonder how long this will go on for before knock offs start popping up on AliExpress and Temu?
Now considering that only the other week or so I got the upper dock thrown in with a Mac Mini and the cables for a sixth of what that seller is asking, I'm not sure that these listings are going to sell any time soon at the asking price. I certainly feel a lot happier with my recent Thunderbolt display, which has a FW port on the back as well.
Having had a scoot around eBay, the TB1/TB2 docks which were offloaded when TB3 came out seem to have been swept up already but you can still find something like this if you really need FW:
My guess is that the Apple dongle hits the sweet spot for those with laptops who don't want to cart a lot of power leads around. Still, I wonder how long this will go on for before knock offs start popping up on AliExpress and Temu?
Thing is, those dongles are perfect for those that want to carry minimal equipment. I am assuming they work with the latest ipads? A firewire digital camera/video camera connected to the ipad via the dongle, quick, easy and minimal hardware required, which makes it easy to carry around.
Clearly ebay sellers are trying to rip people off with the prices but all they will come back with it 'supply and demand'. Still a rip off in my book.
Clearly ebay sellers are trying to rip people off with the prices but all they will come back with it 'supply and demand'. Still a rip off in my book.