30 Jan
1998
30 Jan
'98
10:25 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
I have to disagree here... I'd say $50-75, possibly as high as $100 with
the extra parts, depending on how badly one wants one. (Again, assuming
it's working.) Mind you, that's what I'd feel comfortable selling it,
wihtout feeling like I'd ripped someone off. I don't know if I'd pay that
much right now, but catch me in a good month...
No way! Maybe $50 at the top end, but $75 is way too much. These are not
common, but then they're not so rare either. And we're still talking
about a hobby that is still in a relative infancy in that nobody (save for
Haddock) has come along trying to enforce some pricing structure and
rarity statistics on it, and therefore I price it based on a usability
factor. I look at it as far as this: what would be a reasonable price if
someone was trying to sell one at a swap meet? What would you expect to
pay for an old-assed, obsolete computer with no current support that some
guy had lying on the ground in a parking lot? For a Coleco Adam, I'd say
that number is between $25 - $30.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Also, what's a fair price for a Coleco Adam
system: 2 keyboards, memory
box with datacassette drives, external numeric keypad with knob (paddle?),
and printer.
$25 - $30 as long as it works.