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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / August 2004Second-hand Mac prices?
Can anyone point me at a decent resource for figuring out how much a second-hand Mac is worth? I've taken a look at the prices being asked by smalldog.com and some Trading Post advertisers, and am having a hard time believing anyone could seriously get $2500 for a Quicksilver G4 given what you can get new from Apple for that sort of money... Matt I got $2400 for my MDD G4 with superdrive, GF4MX 64MB, two 60GB internal drives, 1.25GB ram, and combo drive. But it's a bit much for a quicksilver. On 23/8/04 3:22 PM, in article ahbov1-0g8.ln1@romana.boggle.org, "Matt McLeod" <matt@boggle.org> wrote: > Can anyone point me at a decent resource for figuring out how much > a second-hand Mac is worth? I've taken a look at the prices being [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Matt >I got $2400 for my MDD G4 with superdrive, GF4MX 64MB, two 60GB internal >drives, 1.25GB ram, and combo drive. But it's a bit much for a quicksilver. Was that with or without display? I've got a QS G4 @867MHz, 768MB RAM, a single 60GB disk, superdrive, and 15" Apple LCD. It's nearing three years old, so with the new iMac due for release in the very near future I'm considering selling it to part-fund an upgrade. I'm seeing similar systems selling in the States for US$800 or so without the display, and people advertising locally asking for around $2500. A friend is interested in buying it from me, and while I don't want to over-charge him I also don't want to sell for too far below market price -- a little under is fine, but not more than a few hundred dollars. The obvious thing to do would be to stick it up on Ebay, and I guess that's what I'll do if I don't sell to my friend, but that's not really the way to find out what it's worth... Matt That was without display. All the little extras in it added up, I was happy to let it go for around $2000ish stock. But with the RAM, bigger video card, 2nd hard drive, and second optical drive (superdrive) I feel $2400 was fair :) I advertised it in the Sydney trading post and 2 weeks later I got a call from a guy in Qld keen on it, who was also bidding on a quicksilver on eBay. He ended up going for mine as it was better value and was spotless, and I couriered it to him, and also got a sale out of it at work, sold him a scanner :) On 23/8/04 7:11 PM, in article duoov1-mfb.ln1@romana.boggle.org, "Matt McLeod" <matt@boggle.org> wrote: >> I got $2400 for my MDD G4 with superdrive, GF4MX 64MB, two 60GB internal >> drives, 1.25GB ram, and combo drive. But it's a bit much for a quicksilver. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Matt > I'm seeing similar systems selling in the States for US$800 or so > without the display, and people advertising locally asking for around > $2500. A friend is interested in buying it from me, and while I don't > want to over-charge him I also don't want to sell for too far below > market price -- a little under is fine, but not more than a few hundred > dollars. If you're selling, check out prices similar systems have gone for on eBay in the past six months. They're usually a bit nuts, I find. But that's good if you're selling :-). Cheers, Robert. In article <>, Matt McLeod <matt@boggle.org> wrote: > Can anyone point me at a decent resource for figuring out how much > a second-hand Mac is worth? I've taken a look at the prices being [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Matt My rule of thumb is that a computer depreciates by about half roughly every 18 months (sort of a corrolary of Moore's Law). Prices on eBay roughly agree with this. (I've been looking for a certain Powerbook at a (as yet unmet) good price.) Cheerio,  SignatureK.A. Moylan Canberra, Australia Ski Club: http://www.cccsc.asn.au kamoylan at ozemail dot com dot au > Can anyone point me at a decent resource for figuring out how much > a second-hand Mac is worth? I've taken a look at the prices being [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Matt It's a true example of "fools and their money are easily parted" but that's Australian dollar prices (multiply by about 0.75 for US$ equivalent - I'm saying this because of your .org rather than .org.au domain) A bog-standard, new 12" iBook will outperform most of the older, 2nd hand G4s fetching AU$2k+ for about AU$1700 while the eMac for the same money will also include the Superdrive option, so yes, avoid 2nd hand, Apple's new pricing has never been better. >It's a true example of "fools and their money are easily parted" but >that's Australian dollar prices (multiply by about 0.75 for US$ >equivalent - I'm saying this because of your .org rather than .org.au >domain) A quick look at whois will show that the domain-owner lives in Australia. >A bog-standard, new 12" iBook will outperform most of the older, 2nd >hand G4s fetching AU$2k+ for about AU$1700 while the eMac for the same >money will also include the Superdrive option, so yes, avoid 2nd hand, >Apple's new pricing has never been better. I'm the one with the second-hand Mac to sell, not looking at buying one. The only reason I could see to buy a PMG4 at the sort of prices I've been seeing would be if one really wanted a tower enclosure for some reason (e.g., have SCSI devices, want the upgradability) but had to work within a limited budget. Neither an iBook nor an eMac will give you that. Matt |
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