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

[romeo@anet-dfw.com (Romeo)]

Here's my $.02 worth:  I'm gonna go buy that loaded IIgs system I saw the other 
day at a local used-computer store For $50. It's SUPER CLEAN and runs well, and 
has everything except software, which I already have. 

Maybe that guy selling his for $700 can find an "antique collector" who is 
willing to pay that much. :-)  Good luck!!

I have to agree fully with Mitchell.

-Romeo


In article <5AUG199821273145@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca says...
>
>In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
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>>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
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>>>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