[WEB4LIB] Rough Price

[Bosman, Don]

I suggest you check eBay, as that has become the defacto guide to the surplus market. You can use the history feature to pull up pricing for the last month or so to give a realistic average. I've seen several people surprised to find out how little some things that cost big were now "worth" on the open market.

Based on my own experience buying at auction (don't all techs have a sideline selling and giving away used computers?) I'd expect to pay more for the monitors then I would for the Acer's you have listed. They are not very upgradeable. If the license for Windows 98 goes with the machine and there is a hard drive, my personal opinion is $50 - $65.00 would be fair to all, presuming there is a contract for zero tech support. 

With out a licensed OS, I'd suggest that at $35 - $50 the purchasers would be doing your boss a favor by not having costing you cash to dispose of them. That's about $30 each for monitors now. 

A batch of Gateway 200's similarly configured to what you listed and 15 inch monitors went out of MSU Surplus at about $25.00 each a month or so back. 

Don Bosman
Information Technologist
Michigan State University Libraries
517-353-8586
dbosman at mail.lib.msu.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Garwood [mailto:sgarwood at infolink.org]
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:02 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Rough Price


Hello All,

I've been asked to get an approximate value on computers which would have 
the following specs. The figures I need don't need to be "official" per se, 
but just a good estimate of what the machines are worth. [Read - I have old 
computers that I need to dispose of but I'm not allowed to just give them 
away...]