Practical question on valuation of old systems

In article <455ACE22.14183.4226EF4 at cclist.sydex.com>, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes: In a perfect market, yes. However, what we have here is a sparse market with frenzy pricing. For instance, I purchased a Beehive terminal branded as a Cromemco terminal. Ordinarily, a Beehive terminal is pretty rare in the first place, but putting the Cromemco branding on it made it more attractive to collectors. Ironicly, this is probably what kept it from hitting the scrapper! However, because of the collector interest in the Cromemco branding, bidding on this terminal went up to like $350 before I was able to secure it. A regular Beehive terminal of comparable model would probably not go to $100 unless there are some other weird terminal collectors like me out there :-). Beehive doesn't command much interest, but Cromemco does. Same hardware, different nameplate. The only way to determine "market" price from things like ePay is to monitor them over a long enough time to have sufficient "comps" to determine which items sold abnormally low and which sold abnormally high. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>