On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 09:53 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > My guess is that it is not worth $20k. At best it would be worth $14k or so. > > Lots of dreamers on ebay asking for a pie in the sky. > > I have never been like that and I despise this approach to business. > > That said, if i can fix it in a few hours and by throwing some minimal money > at it, I will try. > > i
I worked for a used telecomm equipment dealer for a while. At first, I thought his prices were way out of line, but you just need one call from the one in a million customer that absolutely needs, let's say, that last 1980's 100MB hard drive with Mitel integration on it, (that we effectively bought for a $1) to make a $1000 sale. And, the customer will thank you for it when it arrives on site, installed and working, over night. One tactic, if time and space is not a problem, is to just sit on the machine until the right customer comes along. Then sell as-is, refurbished, or part out as needed. Or do a quick sale to someone on this list. Another option, develop a product or service that will allow you, or someone you contract to house and/or run the machine, a means to pay for the machine and rebuild. But, also realize your perfectly good machine will most likely have no generic resale value. It depends on the most likely customer; desperate 1/1,000,000, or yourself to keep and use. I think it really helps to have this worked out first (,but I myself haven't gotten it right yet). -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
