Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: You may have already won... Message-ID: <524@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:58:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.524 Posted: Wed Jul 3 14:58:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:45:50 EDT References: <136@mecc.UUCP> <44000016@uiucdcs> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 12 Summary: In article <44000016@uiucdcs> mcewan@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA writes: > >> By the way, we got another one yesterday from another place and the three >> prizes are 1) $10,000 2) $100 3) Commodore Color PC. (99.9871% odds) >> Does anyone know how much the Commodore is worth? (they claim $169) > >My guess is that this is a Vic-20 (cheapest thing Commodore makes), which >is selling now for around $70. I saw this trick pulled with a Timex-Sinclair. They claimed it was worth $250. Last I saw them around here they were discounted to $20 and no takers.