Re: Fair value for the Apple II on eBay

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Jan 10, 11:07 am, Sean Fahey <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 10:35 am, Ken Gagne <kga...@gamebits.net> wrote:
>
> > Certainly there have been some highly publicized recent sales of
> > vintage Apple tech going for insanely great amounts, from Christie's
> > Apple-1  for $213K to a Lisa 1 for $15K.  But are Apple II products
> > being similarly sold for too high a price?  Is the hype from those
> > other big-name sales causing an artificial inflation of market value?
>
> I'd like to draw your attention to this bit of (imo) eBay insanity, a
> NIB Apple //c sold for $5000 as Buy It Now:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140491871326
>
> The buyer isn't new to collecting (knives), or to the Apple community
> (he's a Mac user) -- but does seem to be new to the Apple II retro
> (and collecting) communities. He was recently interviewed on
> RetroMacCast.
>
> The lessons here are:
>
> 1.) When selling something, set the initial price outrageously high --
> or even higher than that -- because collectors, speculators, fools and
> the ignorant might just fall for it.
>
> 2.) You can always lower your price later.

Yes, that may be the case.  But if I part out a working //e system,
say, to liquidate the rare parts at a higher cost -- wouldn't that
piss a few of you off?  How much is someone willing to pay for a
working Sider+controller?  And why would they pay more than the going
price for a better IDE/CD card?

-Brendan