Re: Interest inquiry

[eavedesian@comcast.net]

> >
> 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?
>

No this is not it at all.

> 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.

Completely understnad this point.

>
> Or maybe there's an assumption that because it is a twenty year
> old computer it should carry a high price.

No, but for anything under 100.00 why would I even mess with it?

>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