KR> if you are in the market for hardware, invest $1.50 in the
 KR> trading post, it is probably the best guide to bargains around.

 BL> I like the Saturday Herald too.

 KR> nowhere near as much stuff in there.

 BL>   Agreed, but it gives you a reference. I find that there are three
 BL> tiers of pricing: the Hardly Normals; the regular long-term yumcha who
 BL> charge a little extra but will be around in a year, and the short-term
 BL> yumcha who are just passing through. The Herald gives a handy list of
 BL> the long-termers you can find in the Trading Post.

 BL>   What I aim for is a long-termer at bottom price who will install it
 BL> and test it for me, or *really* cheap for things I can do myself. 

i go for anybody who will be around for more than a month, i install all my
own stuff, and if it lasts 4 weeks, it will probably last for ever. i
mostly buy from a chinese couple out the back of chatswood who's house is
packed with pc stuff, i don't know how they live there, theres even a fax
machine on the draining board. the rest of the stuff i get from another
chinese who brings stuff direct from hong kong. i know enough members of
the chinese business comunity to know that these two are reasonably stable.

                         keith
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