Re: What would you do? (Large lot of systems)

[Aaron Willis <fenroth@home.com>]

I cleaned one of these "School Systems" up and sold them for $102 and $130.  I
only paid $5 per system.

Mike Ford wrote:

> > A friend sent me a .jpg of a lot that sold on ebay recently - sorry I dont
> > have the number. It got $20. The .jpg showed 1/6 doz GS cpus, 1/2 doz IIe
> > cpus, monitors, printers. So you have some idea of value in bulk - not
>
> A typical pallet of "school" Apple stuff, etched names, etc etc with maybe
> 75 cpus on it sells at auction for "maybe" $20 depending on who happens to
> see a eBay fortune. The last "pile" like that I went through over a period
> of maybe 4 hours netted me the following; 5 workstation cards, a dozen
> super serial, a dozen disk II, 6 I/O cards for duos etc., 2 fast SCSI
> cards, a batch of 80 col/64k cards, and no memory expansion cards. Just
> about all the cases were damaged from the way the pallet was loaded (bent
> metal pan on the bottoms) so I kept zero of them.
>
> Most of this type of item will cost a $1 to $2 in antistatic bags and
> other packing materials to ship. I just sold a Duodisk with cable on eBay
> for $9.99, spent about 15 minutes checking it out, about the same packing
> it, and about double that taking it to the post office. Would I bother to
> pull another DuoDisk off a pallet, not likely.
>
> OTOH if you luck into a pile of old, but NEW IN THE BOX products, those
> will fetch some very nice money assuming you didn't just want to set on
> them yourself.
>
> Same vein, you find a batch of CLEAN old computers that are full of nice
> options and again those will have value. Documentation in good condition
> is also worth saving.

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