Thanks James - I appreciate you comments. I have been out of the market for so long, and I know these computers are very out of date. Like all antiques, they are very individual biases. Thanks again. Brent .............
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:38 AM, James Fraser < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > >I have an original new in BOX Macintosh SE30. Anybody have an Idea > >what I shuld sell it for? Also a Powerbook 180 C, 270C, and 520C; all > >new in box. Any Idea what they are worth? > > This kind of question ("What is my vintage XYZ Mac worth?") seems to come > up > quite a bit on the VM list. The answer, as near as I can make out, is: > whatever > someone else is willing to pay for it. > > I apologize if that sounds flippant (it's not meant to), but the fact of > the > matter is that there is no hard-and-fast set of rules when it comes to > setting > prices for vintage hardware. One collector of vintage Macs might be > willing to > pay $20 for a machine that another collector would be only too happy to > pay $100 > for. > > The best advice I can give would be for you, the current owner, to ask > whatever > price -you- think they are worth. If the price you set is too high, then > you > won't get any takers. You can always adjust the price downward if that > happens. > > There's also the question of where you plan to sell these machines. If > you plan > to sell them via eBay, you might fetch a higher price than if you were to > sell > them on LEM Swap: > > http://lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html > > ...seeing as how eBay would likely put them in front of more eyeballs than > LEM > Swap would. The flip side being that eBay and PayPal are going to want a > percentage (someone who sells on eBay can step in here and elaborate on > what > kind of percentage) of whatever you end up getting for the machines, > whereas LEM > Swap costs nothing to list an item. > > > Which venue would work best is a matter of whether you're looking to fetch > top > dollar, or whether you want the machines to go to a good home. If the > latter, I > would say that LEM Swap is your best bet. > > I wish I could be of more help. Perhaps someday someone will sit down and > write > a Blue Book for old computers and peripherals. Would compiling such a > book be > worth the time and effort it would take? I don't know. Until that > happens, you > may want to do a "completed items" search on eBay to see what prices your > particular machines have fetched recently. > > Other than that, I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas. [shrugs helplessly] > > > Best, > > James Fraser > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
