Hi James - I'd definitely be interested. Are you in the UK?
Dave
On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:38:59 UTC+1, James Fraser 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
>
>
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