[cctalk] Re: Another original Apple I sells for an insane amount

On 2013 May 27, at 12:21 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: Here's a source that I'll presume has some reliability: Mike Willegal's Apple I registry states Hatfield's unit was "Sold to a Texas based collector in fall of 2012 for $40,000" The 640K sale was in November of 2012. Which sale was first? We don't know, but as November is late fall, on a strict statistical basis it's more likely that Hatfield's 40K sale was before the 640K sale, Hatfield was in a position to be both informed when he made his sale and still surprised at the later 671K sale price. Before the Nov 640K sale, no one 'had a clue' that it could go that high. The 374K sale was in June of 2012, but a unit also sold for 75K in that same month, and around that same time period a unit failed to sell for 75K. In 2009, units sold for both 17K and 50K. It's hard to say whether there's any significant correlation between working/non- working and market value (and for us it's not really an issue as it's not likely to be difficult to get working, depending upon how picky one wants to be about date codes & c.), but it is to say that market values in the same time period are varying widely. In the fall of 2012 I don't see it as non-sensical for even an informed person to view the 374K sale as an outlier, take the sure-thing 40K and let someone else deal with the hassles. Maybe Hatfield has some regrets - although he doesn't sound like it - but he had already registered his unit with Willegal, he doesn't strike me as being ignorant of what he had.