Interesting-reminds me of Jupiters which "liked" to be at high temps as someone discovered. People were plugging holes in them to bring temps to to 75C.
Difficult to do properly, of course.

good catch, but the latter guy does not have any performance guarantees and obviously wants to deal in BTC, which is outside of ebay.
The first one is a good deal, especially since he says-make an offer. I don't know why he is so desperate to get rid of them at the low considering everything.
Many other people ask for ~300 plus minus a few ($275-339).

apart from emotion, I don't know what you are trying to convey?
picture this:

there will be 21 trillion XBT or 2.1 quadrillion satoshi(s) once distribution is complete (a bit more than half of this now).
mentally replace all (or nontrivial % of each) $$, euro, yen, yuan in the world with XBT.
What do you gain: incredible increase in payment fluidity and monetary velocity plus security plus other advances (smart contracts, etc.).
what do you lose: almost nothing

this is point B, when you can get paid in XBT, will save (at least some) in XBT, which will be at least as stable as any currency is today.
You would want more XBT, and you will earn it by working or investing.
Now, we are at point A.
Getting from point A to point B is where the difficulty lies.

well, point taken, but it was last week. This week, after B10 announcement, some price recovery and flat difficulty, you would have to pay at least $275, maybe $299 on ebay, almost nobody will sell for $240. In fact, only newbs would sell used S-3 for next 7-9 days because difficulty stayed flat, so it pays to delay.

Well, some people move back to moms/dads house, even when they have a job.
Reason-to save money to buy their own house. A couple of years of such savings and they have enough savings for a downpayment.
I know at least three people in their late twenties doing just this-it seems to get more and more popular because they don't save when they live in apartments, which are damned expensive even here; if NY-forget about it (savings).

Foreigners buying prime US real estate usually means that their economy peaked or about to peak-same happened with japanese in late eighties early nineties.

My point was that $$ wealth pyramid has almost exactly the same features as current bitcoin wealth pyramid.
Unequal wealth distribution is common. Redistribution would occur slowly through the same mechanisms as now: people with more productivity/ingenuity will able to earn more.

suggestion: buy some used s3 on ebay

Interesting. I traded a small number of BTC for XMR, but it is underperforming BTC.
XMR owners might need to wait much much longer (I give it 50:50 or even less to succeed, especially looking at BTC troubles).

Maybe, but only a small % of the population was exposed to 21 mil number and I heard Allaire (Circle) publicly referring to 2.1 quadrillion units, which are, of course, satoshi, so some were talking about it. When i recently went to look at one house, and asked about the price, the realtor simply said 'about 7', which, based on location and my knowledge of the neighborhood, I immediately translated as '700000'. I don't know why he was so coy about it and not say 700K or seven hundred thou.
My point is use will determine, but nobody except early adopters would be reluctant because of 21 mil BTC vs 21 tril XBT, especially since some of them are already exposed to tril in GDP and budget numbers.

Check your math...just 10 billion XBT (in 2009)
He is referring to the current day though, with some optimistic twist. it would be 10000XBT when BTC is back to ~1000-1200 (assuming $10-12/pizza)  

I am with the opposition to "bits", but it does not matter, as OP said. Use determines the terms.
However, the only way to logically reconcile Bitcoin foundation proposal with historical status is to use base unit of "bitcoin" (XBT) and satoshi at 1:100 of XBT.
BTC can be used as a historical unit. The only thing that is required is recalculation of XBT as 100 satoshi(s).
Result: Everyone with one BTC will be XBT millionaire.
Although the last point is somewhat silly, the positive psychological effect is undeniable.

like this one?
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2013/06/CS%20wealth%207.jpg

People can and do have more than 1 address.
In fact, A. Antonopoulous said that he has 2000 addresses , which is probably an overkill.

Yes, not consistent, but it was getting this reading initially, then shutting itself off in the first few hours of operation. I think Zvi, Remo or someone else or both of these capable engineers looked at it and requested a move to 208V. Anyway, from a practical point of view if this miner sometimes reads 208V as 246V and hashes at OK speed anyway-I am fine with it. I have grown to be very practical about miners. Sometimes I think that they "like" to be left alone. When I was constantly uploading new software, starting and restarting miners after every little turn in the hashing rate, production was always worse then when I just left them hash and let production rate fluctuate as it may. It was true for competitors S1 and S3, but I did not have a chance for this approach to S-30 at home because I don't have power and space for it at home (duh!).

Right now, the most I can wish for is for miners to produce stably and for the damned difficulty rate to stay put or decline (as it did in 2011), but the latter part is just a dream. 

yep, one of my hosts (thanks, Jeff!) reported that sp-30 was crashing because miner was initially reading voltage as above 300V when, in fact, it was 246-254V. I guess, this was an extreme case of the same phenomenon. When this Sp-30 was later moved to 208V (otherwise it would not work), miner was initially reading 246V instead.

Of course, it did; it was called "Ivan the terrible" on BTC-e and "Wēi lián" (威廉) on Huobi...
 

How much is for two S3 with shipping to contiguous US?
Sorry to be lazy, just don't want to go through motions and then cancel if too much.

I corrected something that was wrong re safe and cheap.
I got at least three warnings lately: Target, Walmart, Home Depot
Chase break-they don't even talking about the extent of it.

no expectation, nothing to do with next several years  
We might have already bottomed or will bottom anywhere between $72 (unlikely) and $240-266 (possible)
i very much like the fact that hashing speed is flatlining