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Shreve Systems is Dead and Going

Posted by pudge on from the putting-a-(low)-price-on-memories dept.

perfessor multigeek writes "Since back in '78, Shreve Systems has been the funkiest aftermarket source of Apple stuff. Well, not anymore. They're going out of business right now and any folks looking for hundred-dollar working laptops (with bag and Works), ABD keyboards for a fiver, or Mac Plus supplies, better get over there soonest." You could start your own online store with what you could buy over there.

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  1. Prices. by Daleks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No wonder these guys went out of business. Look at the prices for refurbished 6-7+ year old machines. If these are actually market prices, anyone want an 9500/180MP 128/4GB/4x CD-ROM/ATI Nexus 128 for $1200? Funny you can find nearly the same thing on eBay for $45.

  2. Poor Story by goldid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't see how this is a valid slashdot story. Well, yes they have some fun old mac stuff (if you really want an old PowerMac handing around), but who's ever heard of them before? Their website generally sucks and they seem to be simply drawing people into their liquidation and audio store.

  3. Good for Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I was in the US Air Force stationed in Shreveport LA. (Barksdale AFB) and I was going to Louisiana St-Shreveport at the same time. I went the their warehouse/store to buy an external disk drive (floppy) to use with my PowerBook, and it didnt work with 10.0.x and when I tried to return it those asses had the nerve to say only online orders get refunds, not walk-ins. So if I ordered online, and waited 3-4 days rather than make a 10 min drive I would have recieved a refund. Good for them, we dont need asses like that in the Apple community!

  4. I'm Surprised They Held Out This Long by WatertonMan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It is sad they disappeared. They were often a great source to find odds and ends for older systems. For folks like computer unsavy older people, older Macs worked great. Most of them never use the Internet and just need simple word processing.

    Having said all that though with eBay getting bigger and bigger it is often cheaper to find legacy machines there. Any business that depended upon legacy machines and legacy parts either would go out of business or just end up marketing with eBay. But it would be hard to keep the margins if you weren't buying large stocks of those parts.