Hello,
>I have an original new in BOX Macintosh SE30. Anybody have an Idea
>what I shuld sell it for? Also a Powerbook 180 C, 270C, and 520C; all
>new in box. Any Idea what they are worth?
This kind of question ("What is my vintage XYZ Mac worth?") seems to come up
quite a bit on the VM list. The answer, as near as I can make out, is:
whatever
someone else is willing to pay for it.
I apologize if that sounds flippant (it's not meant to), but the fact of the
matter is that there is no hard-and-fast set of rules when it comes to setting
prices for vintage hardware. One collector of vintage Macs might be willing to
pay $20 for a machine that another collector would be only too happy to pay
$100
for.
The best advice I can give would be for you, the current owner, to ask whatever
price -you- think they are worth. If the price you set is too high, then you
won't get any takers. You can always adjust the price downward if that happens.
There's also the question of where you plan to sell these machines. If you
plan
to sell them via eBay, you might fetch a higher price than if you were to sell
them on LEM Swap:
http://lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html
...seeing as how eBay would likely put them in front of more eyeballs than LEM
Swap would. The flip side being that eBay and PayPal are going to want a
percentage (someone who sells on eBay can step in here and elaborate on what
kind of percentage) of whatever you end up getting for the machines, whereas
LEM
Swap costs nothing to list an item.
Which venue would work best is a matter of whether you're looking to fetch top
dollar, or whether you want the machines to go to a good home. If the latter,
I
would say that LEM Swap is your best bet.
I wish I could be of more help. Perhaps someday someone will sit down and
write
a Blue Book for old computers and peripherals. Would compiling such a book be
worth the time and effort it would take? I don't know. Until that happens,
you
may want to do a "completed items" search on eBay to see what prices your
particular machines have fetched recently.
Other than that, I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas. [shrugs helplessly]
Best,
James Fraser
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