Re: Distored Prices on eBay Affects Everyone

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Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker) wrote:

>I picked up a standard //gs for $30.  This included two disk drives.  Then he
>threw in a //gs monitor for $30 more.  This is a 400k Rom 1 gs.  (He says, I
>believe him but I still have not fired it up.)   I was more interested in the
>monitor - I'm on it right now.
>
>You just have to not get caught up in the frenzy and wait for the next one.

Those prices are reasonable considering the IIGS unit, monitor,
and drives are fairly in supply.  Decked out IIGS systems go
for more than that and fairly so.  Especially if a TWGS or Zip GS
accelerator is installed as those items are rarities in and of
themselves.  Thus, while a bare bones IIGS system with drives
and monitor might go from $30 to $60, a decked out IIGS system
with accelerator and hard drive plus software might go for $250
to $350 depending on the setup.  A decked out IIGS unit will also
tend to have 4MB to 8MB of memory, thus not needing a Sirius
card to be properly configured.

But the farther back you go, the rarer the Apple II and thus the
higher the price (since the Apple IIe is most popular, it goes for
the lowest prices).  Mint condition Apple II units (not II+ or IIe)
with original manuals can go for quite a bit in some parts of the
world.  The Apple I, of course, is worth thousands of dollars now.
It has turned into a collector item.