25 Feb
2004
25 Feb
'04
3:08 a.m.
does anyone keep track of real-world prices for old machines? I get the
impression from past list traffic that there are price guides available
for classic computers but they're next to useless anyway.
I have a few odds and ends which don't fit into the current collection
that I might want to part with, but have no idea what they're
realistically worth. I'm used to giving stuff away, not selling it :)
Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look at prices fetched for
past items to give a rough guideline?
cheers
Jules
25 Feb
25 Feb
5:30 a.m.
At 11:54 AM 2/25/2004, you wrote:
Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look at
prices fetched for
past items to give a rough guideline?
E-Bay lets you look at completed transactions but you have to be registered
and sign in.
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Gene Ehrich
gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com
6:03 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
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Sent: 25 February 2004 19:30
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: prices...
At 11:54 AM 2/25/2004, you wrote:
Yeah, but it's only for the last 30 days which can be annoying sometimes.
Cheers
w
Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look
at prices fetched
for past items to give a rough guideline?
E-Bay lets you look at completed transactions but you have to
be registered and sign in. 
6:05 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Gene Ehrich wrote:
At 11:54 AM 2/25/2004, you wrote:
And only for the past 30 days, which is pretty useless.
Once the VCM starts getting a sizeable sample of sales, we'll be
publishing price guides--or at least making the data available--in some
form or another.
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Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look
at prices fetched for
past items to give a rough guideline?
E-Bay lets you look at completed transactions but you have to be registered
and sign in. 
5:35 a.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
does anyone keep track of real-world prices for old
machines? I get the
impression from past list traffic that there are
price guides available
for classic computers but they're next to useless
anyway.
I have a few odds and ends which don't fit into the
current collection
that I might want to part with, but have no idea
what they're
realistically worth. I'm used to giving stuff away,
not selling it :)
Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look
at prices fetched for
past items to give a rough guideline?
ebay yes, just search those completed
auctions. But it
seems they reduced the searchable duration after an
auction ends.
cheers
Jules
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11:18 a.m.
Jules,
Are there certain machines you are trying to appraise? I've been saving
eBay auction results (in a single file archived html format) for machines
that I am interested in. I'm up to about 1100 auctions starting in April
2002. Let me know if you would like me to dig into it for you.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:54 AM
Subject: prices...
does anyone keep track of real-world prices for old
machines? I get the
impression from past list traffic that there are price guides available
for classic computers but they're next to useless anyway.
I have a few odds and ends which don't fit into the current collection
that I might want to part with, but have no idea what they're
realistically worth. I'm used to giving stuff away, not selling it :)
Do ebay or any other sales sites allow you to look at prices fetched for
past items to give a rough guideline?
cheers
Jules
29 Feb
29 Feb
12:21 a.m.
** Reply to message from <nick(a)computer-history.org> on Wed, 25 Feb 2004
19:18:56 -0600
Are there certain machines you are trying to appraise?
I've been saving
eBay auction results (in a single file archived html format) for machines
that I am interested in. I'm up to about 1100 auctions starting in April
2002. Let me know if you would like me to dig into it for you.
Nick
I/d be interested in IMSAI 8080, Perkin Elmer Hemm can't find model its a 5Meg
fixed and 5meg removable hard drive 150 lbs. 19" rack mount.
Rich
26 Feb
26 Feb
2:42 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:54, Jules Richardson wrote:
does anyone keep track of real-world prices for old
machines? I get the
impression from past list traffic that there are price guides available
for classic computers but they're next to useless anyway.
I've been keeping track of Apple clone prices for a little over a year
now, but I have less formal records going back to 2000. I can usually
guess to within $5.00 or so, what the ending price on a particular clone
will be, but there are still times when I am WAY off, for reasons that
aren't always clear to me.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the ending bids on most of
the old computer stuff has been way down since 2001. Not all prices, but
most seem to be off from their highs during the heady dot.com days. No
surprise, I guess, and I'm not complaining. It sort of gives me a reason
to hold on to items that I might otherwise have been tempted to sell.
I also wonder if the market has been saturated. Is the group of
collectors growing, or shrinking? I can't tell either way?
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