Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxe!rainbow From: rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RE:BYTE AD Message-ID: <1024@ihuxe.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 11:22:53 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxe.1024 Posted: Wed Jan 9 11:22:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 07:56:12 EST Sender: rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: BYTE unclassified ads >Does anyone out there read the Unclassified Ads in BYTE magazine? >I was looking through this month's and noticed several ads of the form: > "WANTED: High school student seeks donation of {Commodore 64|Apple //| > IBM pc} and peripherals for intellectual development, etc. Will pay > postage...." >Does anyone know anyone who ever got a system this way? Do these people >really think that someone is going to send them a $1000+ computer for just >the cost of postage? >What do all you micro owners think about this? Answer the add. Ask for $20 bucks postage(or something reasonable). Give plausible explanation like you work for such and such and the company can use it as a writeoff. Then send hime some nice pictures of the equipment he asked for. Making a tidy profit. Or just take the money and run. Robert