nxh@meaddata.com (Nobuya "Higgy" Higashiyama) (10/22/90)
A friend has a Mac Plus she wants to sell, but has no idea how much to ask for. It's about two years old, and she paid about $1,500 for it. Not sure how much memory it has (it has only standard equipment). I would appreciate your opinions on how much this Mac is worth on a used market. Please email. Thank you! Higgy -- Nobuya "Higgy" Higashiyama | ____/| Mead Data Central, Dayton, OH | \ o.O| Vote for Bill in '92! Internet: nxh@meaddata.com | =(_)= UUCP: uunet!meaddata!nxh | U ACK! THPHTH!
nxh@meaddata.com (Nobuya "Higgy" Higashiyama) (10/23/90)
In article <1727@meaddata.meaddata.com> I wrote: >A friend has a Mac Plus she wants to sell, but has no idea how much to ask for. >It's about two years old, and she paid about $1,500 for it. Not sure how much >memory it has (it has only standard equipment). I would appreciate your >opinions on how much this Mac is worth on a used market. Please email. Thank >you! Thanks for all the responses I've received. Since a couple people mentioned that they're also looking into selling their Mac Plus's, I thought I'd post a summary of responses. My thanks to the following people: "Mark Interrante" <mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu> "Paul Pazandak" <pazandak@cs.umn.edu> deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) hauer@ecn.purdue.edu (Corey Hauer) dave@PRC.Unisys.COM bkuo%girtab.usc.edu@usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo) joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) "Quaestor" <jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu> Tadd <torbortc@clutx.clarkson.edu> Suggestions ranged from $300 to $1000, but I think the overriding factor is (as one emailer noted) the recent introduction of Mac Classic at $750 with educational discount price. Seems like $500 would be a pretty good price. I've attached excerpts of emails I've received. Thanks again! Higgy =============================================================================== You can buy them new at many universities for ~500. You may be able to get 700 in a town that is not heavily into macs (ie. not a major university town). =============================================================================== As an ex-Apple Technical Coord. / Mac-Lover/ and all around good guy I can tell you that she should be lucky to get $850 for it. It really depends on several things: 1) Her conscience - she could probably sell it to someone for $1100 - but will she be able to sleep well? This is with the understanding that the buyer is VERY new to the market & perhaps stupid to boot. 2) Realize that the Mac Classic which comes with a HD drive sells now for less than $1000 NEW. 3) Supply and demand in the area. 4) Is the machine worn out / was it taken care of ? 5) Is it dirty - if so, clean it up. 6) Adding software can help but don't add a lot to the cost - people see that it's a MacPlus more than what S/W comes with it. It might be more of an incentive to buy, than an increase in price that she'll gain. 7) A FAIR price would be in the range of $750 IF it has been taken care of - but many people don't want fair as much as they want $ (see 1). Hope this helps!!! =============================================================================== With the intro of the Mac Classic, new Mac+s are going for around $700 on the gray market, and could go lower. If you are giving software with the system, maybe you could get six or seven hundred for it.... I'd suggest asking $750 for it w/ software -- advertise the fact that it's at half price! =============================================================================== I have one of the beasts myself and when I sell it, I don't expect more than $500 for it. =============================================================================== A standard Mac+ has 1 Meg of memory. Useful information: The line was discontinued October 15, when the Mac Classic was introduced. The Classic is a very similar, but slightly (25%) faster machine, and uses the 1.44 Meg floppy rather than the 800K floppy of the Mac+. Other differences are minor. It lists for $999, but is available for as little as $750 (educational discount price). Some stores have been reported as selling off the Mac+ for $499. Your friend may be able to get $500 for it, particularly if she throws in a lot of software. A price of $400 might still attract a lot of interest. =============================================================================== Used, the max you'll get out of it would probably be around $650. Since that's what they were liquidating them at last month, I'd think around $550... =============================================================================== its worth about $300-400 in clean condition. =============================================================================== I soon will be selling my Mac Plus, and I have pondered on this topic. Since the average Joe on the street used to have to pay around $1250, and this is a used Mac +, your price should be lower. Things like programs and other specialsmight be alble to bring up the price, but I would post $1000 obo for the price and shoot for nothing lower then $800 or so. =============================================================================== Probably about $600 for the +. New ones are $800ish. -- Nobuya "Higgy" Higashiyama | ____/| Mead Data Central, Dayton, OH | \ o.O| Vote for Bill in '92! Internet: nxh@meaddata.com | =(_)= UUCP: uunet!meaddata!nxh | U ACK! THPHTH!