Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 18:28:33 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] What are L50s and L100s worth these days?

At 01:59 AM 17/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:59:23 -0800
>From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: What are L50s and L100s worth these days?
>
>I have an L50 and L100 I need to get rid of (need the money, have an
>L110 I'll keep), and I'm wondering what a fair price is for each.

Just to give you an idea ... I paid $750AUD (about $375USD) for my L50 a month and a 
bit ago (after which I joined this list!) but it came with a whole pile of stuff:
- both the standard docking bar and the enhanced port replicator
- 56k Xircom Realport modem with all cables
- power supply 
- floppy drive
- Teac 10x PCMCIA CD-ROM drive
- Canon BJC80 mini IR printer with both print heads, power supply, a few spare ink 
cartridges, carry case PLUS a scanner head
- all original diskettes and CDs for printer, scanhead, laptop, etc.
- all manuals for all the major bits and pieces plus (expired!) warranty cards, 
receipts, cleaning sheets, etc.
- Other bits and pieces (keyboard, mouse, disk box, etc.)
However it only has the original 770MB HDD and 16 meg RAM in it. It doesn't have any 
bad pixels however nor does the libby or any of the other bits and pieces show any 
signs of being dropped (not a single scratch on the case or screen, none of the 
corners had 'flat spots' which would be a sure sign of being dropped, no rattles in 
the CD or printer) - apart from being a little bit dirty it was in what I could see as 
perfect condition. It wasn't overclocked (in fact I couldn't see any signs of it ever 
being opened). The battery was also in pretty good condition, I got 1 hour out of it 
when I turned everything on and kept the hard drive thrashing, stretched it to 1.5 
hours using it carefully.

You could probably get a good estimate of a fair price by subtracting how much you 
recon the CD, modem and printer would be worth, subtracting a bit perhaps to account 
for it having been dropped and missing pixels, then adding the hard drive, RAM and 
battery packs in. I'd estimate it'll probably get you perhaps $450-$550AUD 
($225-275USD) but then again that'll be in an Australian environment where there is a 
premium for relatively rare technology (because the market is so small here). Your 
mileage may vary in the US or Europe.


Hope this helps!

- Raymond

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