Portland C= business for sale

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On March 25 I was fortunate to visit Jim Scabery, who formerly ran a
Commodore sales and repair business in Portland, Oregon. Along with Scott
(Number 16) and Alan (MadMax) of the Amiga-Commodore User Group of
Astoria, I perused through Jim's substantial stock of C= software,
hardware, and repair parts. There was also Amiga software and hardware.

I was amazed to find much unopened software. I was doubly amazed that
Jim had large boxes of software from Software Support, Int'l., the famous
software distribution company of the 1990's. Jim explained that he was
able to get the cream of the software from Software Support before the
rest was sold off to Centsible Software.

Jim had plenty of repair parts for Commodores -- cables, chips (including
even PET chips!), and specialized test equipment for the Commodore.

Jim regaled us with stories about those heady days of Commodore. I took
several photos of him, his stock, and some of his specialized test
equipment (unfortunately, the camera with the film was stolen... but
that is another story).

Jim now wants to sell his business. He'd prefer to sell off both sides of
the business, the software/hardware side and the repair side, either both
or individually. See Jim's message and contact information below.

After 3 hours, I had to leave for California. Scott and Alan bought
hundreds of dollars worth of C= goodies, whereas I bought just one
program, Project Firestart, for C= friend, Cameron Kaiser. (The car was
already crowded with C= and Amiga goods, and I was expecting to fill the
rest of it as I drove south through Medford, Oregon, and pick up another
load there from a former C= user.)

Sincerely,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http/videocam.net.au/fcug

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:49:03 -0700
From: JimDar <jimusr(at-no-spam)comcast.net>

I owned and operated a Commodore sales and repair business from 1985 thru
approx 1992... Specialized in sales and service of Commodore 64's and
128's...... Stocked most all repair parts along with accessories and
software. Still a considerable quantity of software and various hardware
items on hand.... Have been doing an inventory of the software and hope
to have completed within the next week or 10 days. ( am using Microsoft
Works database for this listing ) and will send to you for your interest
when completed. The listing will be approx. 600-700 titles in various
quantities (64 and 128). Also, approx 150-200 titles of Amiga software.
Would you be interested in purchasing a quantity of Commodore 1200 modems
(Model 1670) ??. I have about 75 of these items; new and boxed......,,,
Regarding the software; 75% to 80% is new, sealed and boxed.

Jim Scabery (Custom Commodore Accessories), Portland, OR.

 

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Robert Bernardo <rbernardo@iglou.com> wrote in
newsine.GSO.4.61.0504060514510.27244@shell1:

> Jim had large boxes of software from Software Support, Int'l., the famous
> software distribution company of the 1990's.

Boy, do I EVER have fond memories of ordering by mail from these guys at SSI.
They got to know me pretty well. Aaah, the good old days of printed
catalogs and mailing out postal money orders...


> Jim explained that he was
> able to get the cream of the software from Software Support before the
> rest was sold off to Centsible Software.

What a triumph for him, followed by such a tragedy for everyone else.

Actually, I do remember getting a couple of catalogs for Centsible, but what
I can't remember is whether I ever ordered anything from them. When did they
start going down the drain?

In my mind, it does raise the question of how commercially viable this would
be, except as a passionate side project or semi-retirement hobby. Please,
this is not a troll, just an honest question from a business ignoramus and
past Commie fiend.

 

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Guy Macon wrote:
> Hung N wrote:
>
> >In my mind, it does raise the question of how commercially viable
this would
> >be, except as a passionate side project or semi-retirement hobby.
Please,
> >this is not a troll, just an honest question from a business
ignoramus and
> >past Commie fiend.
>
> It all depends on the selling price.

I too am interested in the inventory, and of course, it depends on the
price.

 

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Hung N wrote:

>In my mind, it does raise the question of how commercially viable this would
>be, except as a passionate side project or semi-retirement hobby. Please,
>this is not a troll, just an honest question from a business ignoramus and
>past Commie fiend.

It all depends on the selling price.

 

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Count me in
please write to filip_g @ wanadoo.dk (hope you'll get my 'coded' e-mail?)

-Freeloader

"Jerry Kurtz" <jerrykurtz@earthlink.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:1112812559.695782.293610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Guy Macon wrote:
> > Hung N wrote:
> >
> > >In my mind, it does raise the question of how commercially viable
> this would
> > >be, except as a passionate side project or semi-retirement hobby.
> Please,
> > >this is not a troll, just an honest question from a business
> ignoramus and
> > >past Commie fiend.
> >
> > It all depends on the selling price.
>
> I too am interested in the inventory, and of course, it depends on the
> price.
>

 

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Jerry Kurtz wrote:

>I too am interested in the inventory, and of course,
>it depends on the price.

Just as long as the crook who runs Centsible doesn't get it,
I will be happy.