4 May
2001
4 May
'01
5:39 p.m.
"James B. DiGriz" wrote:
Ok. I give up. ip500 wants my honest opinion? Since
I've never seen a
980 on ebay in several yearws of watching, it's worth exactly $9.99 at
the moment, or what ever the current high bid is. An industrial or lab
equipment supplier might ask several thousand for it, if they had it,
but they'd only get that much from a corporate purchaser with a revenue
stream being held up by a broken machine, in an extreme emergency. That
is, somebody they had by the short hairs who was spending someone else's
money. They sure wouldn't pay that much if you just walked in cold
trying to sell it, because it's really an obsolete piece of junk that
will take up valuable storage space, to them.
There you have it: $9.99
I don't agree with any theoretical "worth" rhetoric. What people want
to know when they ask, is normal street price, for a given condition and
configuration. If I am interested in something on Ebay, but don't
really know what I would expect to pay for it, it would be wise to ask
before bidding too much money. Why would I "buy it now", or be the
winning bid at twice it's normal value? If I pay $100 for a $50 item
does that mean I magically doubled the value of all like items? No! I
paid double, and the seller made out like a bandit! What make the item
a $50 item is that the said item is sold for $50 quite often, when
available. I say, when available, since many of the items concerning
this list, aren't produced in regular production anymore, in many cases.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA