Possible conquest but need help! Netherlands!

[macman142]

I've found a possible Mac conquest however it's located in Delft Netherlands!!

What a long shot, but is anyone within reasonable distance and can help me out at all?

 

[tecneeq]

I'm in Duisburg, Germany, if that helps. About 250 km. Shipping of a compact mac to me would be a little less than 20 €.

 

[macman142]

Well, I've found THIS: http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/computers-en-software/apple-desktops/m666796778-macintosh-plus-ed.html?c=8c285449651fa109c354bbabe740c1b&previousPage=lr

But they aren't interested in shipping/packing and said pickup only unfortunately.

Would be good if we could get some sort of buddy-system going internationally.

I mean, if anyone in the US/UK/EU sees an item locally to me in Western Australia, I'm more than happy to collect and freight.

 

[tecneeq]

Right, pickup only sucks. Double so if it's literally on the other side of the world.

But to be honest, buying something in somebody else's name, then shipping it once inside EU and once outside EU sounds troublesome. Many things can go wrong and the middleman will have to explain himself if something goes wrong. The middleman would import something and export something, which means he has to deal two times with customs. He also would have risks without compensation.

BTW, i had the idea several years ago to make a bit of extra dough by facilitating between international buyers and sellers that only sell/ship inside germany. Needles to say that doing it commercially you have to express all possible risks in money. The prices of possible items would get very high, very quick.

 

[onlyonemac]

At least macman142's found you a conquest, tecneeq!

 

[tecneeq]

:lol:

Nah, i would never betray a fellow MLA member like that. He might still find someone who can help.

I would stab him instantly from behind for a Classic II, however. |)

 

[Cory5412]

But to be honest

You could acquire it in your own name, either using your own money or the money macman142 sends you, and then send it along to him.

Otherwise, it sounds like you replied to this thread with the intent of telling everybody that you're physically quite close to the pickup-only item in question, but never had any intent to go acquire it, which isn't particularly helpful.

Would be good if we could get some sort of buddy-system going internationally.

I've seen it work before, it has happened on IRC, i can't recall off of the top of my head if it was specifically in #68kMLA (on freenode) or in another channel I frequent elsewhere, but keep in mind that this entire facility (and the IRC room) is caveat emptor and is provided as a convenient spot for facilitation, but without any guarantees whatsoever.

 

[macman142]

It's cool folks, I'm not going to be able to get this idea off the ground. At least not for this particular machine. It's a shame the seller wasn't interested in shipping (but I understand, it's not easy).

If anyone else wants it, go for it. I WILL have a Mac Plus ED one day... Just not this one.

P.S. anyone in France?? I found an SE I would like!

I'm happy to help anyone out who might be after an Australian item? Though, I don't know we got much good/rare stuff (except the black Performas).

 

[tecneeq]

@Cory5412: Right, i could acquire it with my own money in my own name. Then i would have to drive 250km from Germany to the other side of the Netherlands, which equals a 4 hour ride if i'm lucky, one way. And then i would have to export it to Australia and take care of customs.

Cory, sometimes you have to step back and ask yourself: what's in it for me? |)

 

[Hugh]

Feel free to contact me for anything located in the UK, and I can check out the feasibility etc.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[Concorde1993]

Though, I don't know we got much good/rare stuff (except the black Performas).

I've always wanted a mint condition Director's Edition 5400 Performa (with the TV tuner & A/V card; remote, keyboard & mouse would be a bonus). If its feasible, I'm willing to spend a bit on shipping, but not on the actual unit.

 

[Cory5412]

Cory, sometimes you have to step back and ask yourself: what's in it for me?

Then, honest and legitimate question here, why did you reply to the thread?

If you didn't intend to drive 250km (which is certainly day-trip distance, presuming you're allowed to drive at about 100kph, which is honestly a really modest speed) to help out the OP, then why did you reply to the post talking about your physical proximity to the listing in question?

Would you have done the forwarding of physical goods if the original seller had been willing to ship internationally? (At which point though, OP could probably just have purchased it directly.)

 

[tecneeq]

It could have been something airmailable, a cable, a card, a CD, the seller is willing to ship within Europe. But it's not that, it's a compact Mac, the seller doesn't ship and i don't drive that far.

macman142 seems to be able to live with it. You should too.

 

[Bunsen]

250km? Around here we call that "lunch"

/I keed I keed.

I admit to being somewhat stumped as to what the big deal about a Mac ED is though.

 

[tecneeq]

Depends on when. It can be 2 and a half hours or it can be 5 hours drive one way. This ain't Texas, cowboy.

If i have to drive such a way, i usually consider using trains. That way i can work, read or sleep and sometimes it's even cheaper. I pay 1.60 € per litre gasoline. That's roughly $8 per gallon if i got it right, about double that of the prices in the US. Even if trains aren't really cheap by itself, they are often cheaper than using cars.

Anyways, it didn't work out and that is that.

 

[Cory5412]

This ain't Texas, cowboy.

It doesn't have to be Texas for 250km to be perfectly driveable. I wouldn't drive 250km in a poorly maintained car at 20kph, but I recently did it from my town to a big city in order to investigate and buy a camera. It's 240km from border to border, so I probably drove 260-270km (at somewhere between 100-120kph, which is highway speed around here) each way in order to get lunch and a camera.

It's certainly interesting to see how physical location affects somebody's willingness to drive a moderate distance (I'm not going to call 250km close, but it's not really "far" either) in order to get something or help someone.

This was part of why I was surprised at the instant and powerful "no."

Although it's also interesting that you would have been willing to have a cable shipped to you and then forward it, even though you believe deals like this to be messy.

Mac ED

Printing an Avery label with "Mac ED" written on it in Apple Garamond isn't quite original enough.

I'd certainly understand if it was in its original packaging, especially if it was some kind of special school crate, like the bulk pack LC 520s from a few years later, or if it included some kind of special education software that was available at the time of the Mac ED, which isn't something we see tooooooo much of just hanging around, it's a lot more generic games and productivity software than "multimedia" and "edutainment" that became popular in the '90s -- even though bulk education pack LC 520s really weren't bundled with anything except for a plain System 7.1 installation.