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 :)
actually it "real" value is the value which a seller and buy agree upon....
the sellers opinion is " I payed good hard cash for this and I don't
see why I can't get more than half the new price for it". (as an
aside the specific person salary packaged a new TiBook a couple of
years ago and has just in the last few months salary packaged a
17" AlBook so to them the iBook is 2 time over obsolete machine
that even their kids don't want to use - which was their reason for
selling it.
my opinion, speaking from the voice of experience of supporting
obsolete hardware, is that a 4 years old, out performed 4 to 8 times
over by a new laptop that's half the price of this ones original RRP,
no warranty, unknown or dubious history, the next time its powered up
it could blow a logicboard or a $200 battery or a $800 screen (or
some other part that's not available anymore) is simply not worth me
expending a week and a bit's salary on.
Just in the time I've taken to respond to this e-mail the school
admin officer has rung me to tell me that they have sold 2
PowerBook G3s one for $70 and another for $100.... and my personal
opinion is good riddance - one's just had the PRAM and main battery
die and the other is been gotten rid of simply because of it's age
I'd take on of those if they were not dead weight bricks.
<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.
The stupidity of e-bay sellers and bidders never fails to amuse and confound me
a seller who describes the FireWire and external monitor ports as
"two other similar shaped ports, I have no idea what they are"
I tell you I'd not feel comfortable biding sight unseen on something
sold by some one with that level of user knowledge. Also the "resale
value 6 months ago" of $1500 was for run out stock of the 800 & 900
Mhz G3 iBooks I know because with educational pricing they were $1100
and i thought about getting one with my tax return.
Have fun,
Shay
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