Re: Interest inquiry

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

 (eavedesian@comcast.net) writes:
> schmidtd wrote:
>> eavedesian@comcast.net wrote:
>> > I have a fully working Apple IIGS with the original memory expansion
>> > card and a sound-blaster audio card. Also had, Imagewriter II printer.
>> > RGB monitor. 2 @ 3.5 inch floppy drives and 1 5.25 inch floppy assorted
>> > software.
>> >
>> > Question is. Is there any interest in this computer in this day and
>> > age? If so what would be the price point?
>>
>> Absolutely.  Sell it on eBay.  The price point is whatever the market
>> will bear - which seems to be quite a lot these days.
> 
> Looking at Ebay though it is only worth about 50.00. It really isn't
> worth my time to list it for that price. Am I missing anything?
> 
The assumption that when it came out it cost hundreds of dollars, so
you think the used price should be a good percentage of the original
price?

But it's a twenty year old design, and the only people actually using
them are out of the mainstream, and only a small number of those would
be using it as their only computer.

Or maybe there's an assumption that because it is a twenty year
old computer it should carry a high price.  But they were relatively
common, and only a relative handful of people are actually interested
in them.  There have been years for people to get them used, so each
year the number who are seeking them diminish.

IN order to carry a high price as a collector's item, there have to
be few in existence, either because few were manufactured or because
most have long been scrapped, and there has to be people willing to pay
a high price.

ANd except as a collector's item, they have no practicaly use.  Plenty
of more recent computers are available if someone really needs a cheap
computer for something, and they are too old to be what they were
once bought for, an actual workhorse.  You'd have to go back a decade
or more in order to find people who might see it as an alternative to
whatever was current back then.

I suspect if it was a complete system, there might be a higher price
attached to it.  Because additional items may have been less common.
On the other hand, a complete system might be a liability, given
that most people who are interested have some of the items already,
which means they'd be buying (and paying for shipping) things they
don't need.

  Michael