I have a couple of work colleagues who each have identically
specked original 2001 snow 12.1" G3 iBook (code name "P29") 500Mhz,
128 MB, 10GB, CD-ROM (no burner) original purchase academic staff
price would have been about $2000ish.
One of them wants $700 for it - which is, in my mind is more than
just a bit too much for a 4 year old laptop that even in its day
was entry level. The other owner is undecided about if she want's
to sell _right_ now. As I plan to purchase this week I may not be
able to acquire it soon enough. The first person has given me e-bay
action bid details and to be quite blunt it only shows how thick
some people are as some of these bids are for more than the cost of
a new G4 iBook.
Speaking to some of other mac experts wasn't all that helpful,
While I was in X-World the guys in Syndey wer saying $200 up to
$250 tops. but a couple of apple guys here I've spoken to here are
saying $500 to buy
The monetary worth of something is what it costs to replace it. What
the market will bear is best reflected on eBay, the authoritative
source of all pricing information in our capitalist economic
rationalist society :)
<http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4606&item=5106639123&rd=1>
The one I can see there is $570 with a days left of bidding to go, so
$250 would seem a bit unreasonable (to the seller :). It's also
possible it might hit $700 in the next day.
Have fun,
Shay
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