Re: FS: Apple IIGS rom 3

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <3457AA30.18D1@library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

>> I need to sell immediately:
>> 
>> Apple IIgs Rom 3
>> 
>> $200 obo + s/h
>
>
>Don't sell on usenet, they'll rip you off.
>
>Go to Alltech's web site and Sun Remarketing's and print out the
>pricings for the GS.  Then power up the system and do some tasks
>and demos for the buyers.  You'll sell for a better price than
>here on penny-pinching usenet.
>
>Several months ago, someone sold a GS System with an 850MB hard
>disk, accelerator, and high speed modem, and tons of software
>for $650.  This would not have been possible on usenet.

I dunno, I think you have some twisted mental state that causes you not to
tolerate seeing a IIgs sell for less than you think it's worth. I'd call
$200 a decent price for what the original poster is offering, particularly
if he wants to sell it immediately like he says. But I don't presume to
tell someone where, how, and for how much to sell something they own.

Plus you shouldn't compare as-is prices for used stuff with what companies
sell refurb equipment complete with a warranty for. In any event, most of 
these places, Sun in particular, ask outlandish prices for stuff. Would
you pay >$100 for a replacement keyboard for your //e? Sun wants you to.

For a comparison, I just got a Mac IIfx box, 0/0/no floppy with 24 bit video
card for $100 today. The video card makes it a pretty good deal, considering
how a buddy of mine paid that for a 24 bit card alone last year. That probably
works out to about two per cent of the original price. I'll let the reader
decide for himself the relative worth of a Mac IIfx compared to a IIgs.
I might add that I didn't get this box from a usenet poster, and paid what
the seller was asking.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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