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#1 2008-04-29 12:19 pm
Used Apple/Mac Pricing Guides
I'm interested in finding objective sources for pricing used Apple/Mac equipment.
So far I've found these which have market pricing estimates:
www.everymac.com
www.Lowendmac.com
Ebay is different because it's an auction environment; that makes it an uneven as a pricing guide.
Any other sources I may have missed?
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#2 2008-05-11 1:45 am
- willywalloo
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Re: Used Apple/Mac Pricing Guides
eBay is really the best option, as it lists the range of prices, and it shows how much people are really willing to pay for the item.
when I price there, I look at the buy it now's first; then average them and know that finding will be the high end price range. the auctions usually are somewhere in the mid-range, and the low range usually will include some broken or semi-broken items.
hope this helps.
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#3 2008-06-04 10:41 pm
- Scott Baret
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Re: Used Apple/Mac Pricing Guides
Most Apple stuff is right about where you'd think a computer of that age would be. For example, an iMac G3 from 1998-1999 is worth about $25-$50 from what I can see, with a beige PowerPC under that.
The exceptions I see are for the rarer machines or the ones that have become so old they're antiques. Sort of like how a 1977 Cutlass was dirt cheap in 1992 but is a collector's item worth more today. Compact Macs, for example, are going up in value.
The following will ALWAYS be high-priced and high-demand: 128K, 512K, SE/30, Color Classic, Mac TV, Lisa.
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