Re: FS Loaded //Gs, Software, MISC.

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>
>>It's quite sad people see my saying an "Apple IIgs is
>>worth $50" as an outright attack on the machine itself.
>
>You don't get it...TRUE OR FALSE, breaking up a decked
>out IIGS will fetch more than $50?

    True, but often this only applies within the Apple II community.
If you apply this logic elsewhere, it simply won't work and you'll
still be lucky to sell a plain vanilla IIgs for $50.

    That logic rarely works to rationalize a high selling price. For 
example, according to the list of prices Rubywand came up with for 
individual pieces, a stock IIgs could bring you well over US$200. 
Whether or not that could still be done, would this mean I could sell 
a stock IIgs system, as a package, for that same amount of money? 
Before you say that it is worth that amount, think about what US$200 
would buy on the used Mac or PC market. Does it make sense for a 
machine with technology dating back to 1986 (i.e. the IIgs) to be 
worth the same amount as a machine from 1996? (i.e. PowerMac or 
Pentium)?

>Remember, we are talking about selling EACH PART as a
>SEPARATE product, both hardware and software.  LOOK
>at csa2 marketplace and see what these hardware and
>software are selling for.  Now ADD them all up.  They DO
>sell for more than $50 TOTAL.

    comp.sys.apple2.marketplace is a biased place for comparison.
In fact, isn't that where the post for a IIgs system for US$700 
(that started this thread) originated from?

>It is not that you are attacking the GS as your advice
>to the user who is selling the system is flawed.  See
>Steve Buggie's followup for a better one.

    I was not stating advice, I was just stating the reality of
the Apple II's market value. I agree completely with Steve and
you about breaking up an Apple II system and selling it in
pieces--that will undoubtably make more. Of course this also
assumes you sell to the Apple II community, as it's highly
unlikely a Mac or PC user would be interesting in pieces of an
Apple II (excluding ADB devices or generic hardware like modems
and printers, though the latter are usually worth little unless 
very recently manufactured).

    If anyone wants to prove me wrong, I have a nice working
Apple IIgs powersupply I'd happily sell for US$40. :) (what
was quoted as a resale price in this thread). I also have a
Super Serial Card I'd let go for US$30 (a common asking price
I saw on csa2.marketplace several months back).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca