I'm the original owner, now out of storage and selling at:
http://ebay.us/EzbObC?cmpnId=5338273189
Take a look, and offer comments.
Thanks
Peter
http://ebay.us/EzbObC?cmpnId=5338273189
Take a look, and offer comments.
Thanks
Peter
My comment would be to compare prices to other 5150 sold on ebay, because $850 for a non-working, used 5150 with a 3rd-party monitor is insane. Look at listing 402623545489 for example. That one was working and came with the IBM 5153 color monitor - and sold for $357,50.
Also, if you state being the original owner, you should prove that by the receipt. If you can't, just don't state it at all.
Would be helpful if your listing includes pictures of the internals.
Since you're the original owner, I'm wondering why, in a previous post, you asked "...I think is a original PC, but want to know what's inside the box". I've owned mine since new (01/82) and still know exactly how it's configured.
Thanks. I made the error of comparing asking prices, with a few (better) complete systems at $1,000 - $1,200, so was undercutting those. Reviewing sales, I see just one as high as $850 complete in recent weeks. I will adjust my price down and will, of course, consider offers.
Peter
I work in estate sales, so take it from me when I say that if you want to know what something is worth on eBay, you have to look purely at sold listings, and you can't just look at the highs. Rich and impatient collectors exist in all corners of eBay, but they don't set the going rate, because they represent only one half of the spectrum. There are just as many items on eBay at a reasonable markup, or even under priced, and all this together sets the going rate
Obviously, there are many strategies to selling on eBay, and I understand people tend to overprice things in order to fish for someone willing to buy it outright, but a more conservative approach is to total up what you have, take the high and the low and find a median or average price. In this case, you'd be looking at the average price for a non-working IBM 5150 missing the original monitor + the average price of a Princeton HX-12 + average price of a similar dot matrix printer.
Even if you're not comfortable changing your list price, I suggest researching an average price for your own purposes, because in all likelihood you won't get asking price and you'll need to know what the acceptable minimum is.
That is much more in line with current market expectations. Thank you for being receptive to community input.
I'm thinking of donating this system to Goodwill and taking a deduction. If anyone would like to come to Sausalito, CA and pick it up instead, let me know. Call Peter at (415) 699-2739.
I have removed the listing from eBay, and have now listed the Model F keyboard separately at https://www.ebay.com/itm/164738873067
Based on feedback during this process, this will sell for close to what the entire system would get. If interested, take a look.
I'm not sure if the data point is useful, but I paid $135 for a Model F back in April.
The keyboards can go for a lot, but there can also be a lot of variability depending on how many other keyboards are on the market at the time. Supply fluctuates.
Thanks. I was offered $180 to carve it out when the system was for sale, and I've seen some sold prices that are quite high. I have it on an auction format ending next Wednesday, so we'll see. If yours is a clean as mine, you got a great deal.