One of the things I've learned in dealing with the vintage console video
game collectors market is to never underestimate the power of new-in-box
stuff. A game that might be $10 or $20 bare is suddenly worth $200+ or
more in box complete, even an open box. In a recent extreme case, an
original Nintendo with a collection of games sold for $13,000 because of
one single game in box that was considered just about the holy grail of
collecting. The funny thing? The game itself was maybe $3000 of it, the
*box* was $10,000. The rest of it (including the console itself) was
just fluff. Makes it hard for people like me who just want to play old
games with friends, prefer the real thing over emulators, and don't care
much about cosmetics and value. I horrified one of my fellow collector
guys once when I mentioned tossing a NES and a couple dozen games in a
basket and carting it over to a friend's house. He was worried about me
damaging the labels and values of the games.
I'm slightly surprised that an SE/30 is rare enough for this treatment
yet but I suppose there's probably few enough of them new-in-box.
And for the folks worried about it working or not, it's unlikely it'll
ever see the powered end of a power plug anytime soon so I wouldn't
worry about it :)
Scott
On 8/29/2012 2:57 AM, Jason Johnson wrote:
I don't know how or where someone gave you 900 for an older Mac but to
each his own. I am collecting macs at this point and for the price of
gas for most of it I received apple IIs, an apple III, a cube, 2 SEs
one with 25 MHz accelerator, a classic and a plus. I guess new in box
means something to them. I use mine as much as I can trying to get
stuff loaded up on the hard drives ( great for the holidays as my
about 40 apples are an awesome working museum). People are giving
there older apple hardware to recyclers and they ar being destroyed
and I am trying to stop that as parts are hard enough to find. Again
I'm glad you got what you did from your sale. If I had money I might
guy on a spree like that.
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