The Sinclair QL Forum

Boxed QL, currently £865 with 58 bids, started at £15.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261729911172

Unless I'm missing something here this is waayyyyy ove the top.

Phill.

I think I'd part with mine for that price!

It is only about 10 times what it's worth - the seller hasn't even tested it !

Still give me a shout if anyone wants another boxed QL which is tested and doesn't cost the earth!

RWAP wrote:It is only about 10 times what it's worth - the seller hasn't even tested it !

Indeed there was some speculation on stardot.com as to weather it was a shill bid.

Cheers.

Phill.

Not heard of that term before. What's a shill bid?

Let eBay explain themselves:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/sel ... dding.html



Tobias

Hello, all! I've joined your forum as an ex-QL owner. I wanted to set the record straight about my QL which caused all the speculation.
Everything I put on the ebay listing was absolutely true and accurate, and I would have been happy to receive a 'normal' price for it. As it happened there was someone out there ( in fact 2 bidders) who were very keen on it, and neither I-nor any of my family or friends- had any part whatsoever in the price that it was actually sold for. I really can't be doing with dishonesty, and wouldn't dream of getting involved with anything like that.
It's on its way to the USA, and I emailed the chap who has bought it, and he just seems pleased that he has bought something which he says is hard to find over there.
I'd searched on your site, and looked into the history of the QL to see if I could find out if there was anything special about mine. You'd have seen that the registration number was put on my listing, and I wondered if that had any bearing.
I guess I was just lucky to have the right bidder at the right time. There you go.
If you have one for sale yourself, you never know, you may get lucky, too!
Best Regards,
Val

Thank you for posting and congratulations on the sale Did it belong to anyone in your family? Who used it originally? It's always nice to hear how people used them back in the day.

Hi Val,

Welcome to the forums - it is always interesting to hear about the history of QLs - let's hope the purchaser might even join up to the forums and get involved once they get their QL - it is true, there are not that many out there in the USA, despite there being a US specific model.

I am just glad to see that the buyer actually paid for it - it does happen sometimes that people get carried away with auctions and all too often, you hear about auction prices being much higher than normal and then the buyer backing out (claiming their 6 year old must have been using the computer).

I guess two people were really keen to get a "boxed" version. Sometimes people really like the boxes and polys.

Welcome to the forum, I grew up near Newton Stewart