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| Thread ID: 79322 | 2007-05-16 08:25:00 | What's a good reserve? | JJJJJ (528) | PC World Chat |
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| 550204 | 2007-05-16 08:25:00 | I will be shortly selling a PC on Trade Me and don't realy have a clue what sort of reserve to put on it. Lian Li case lian LI Psu 500+ Watts Asus A8N-E m/b amd 64 4000+ cpu. 2 gigs A Data 3-2-3-8 Ram NVidia 7900 GT vid card 320 gig Seagate HDD. Loaded with XT sp2 update current. Disk included. Can an expert tell me the lowest price I should accept? I know how much would make me happy, but I doubt if I'rd get it. Thanks |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 550205 | 2007-05-16 08:30:00 | The reserve should be what you would be happy to get. Only you can decide that. If you have no idea what is a likely price you'd receive on the other hand, take a look at closed auctions of similar systems and see what people actually got. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 550206 | 2007-05-16 08:33:00 | I'd pay about 600-700 for that. Care if I bought it for 650? | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 550207 | 2007-05-16 08:43:00 | I know how much would make me happy, but I doubt if I'rd get it. Thanks You just answered your own question. If that doesn't work the first time, drop the price a bit. As a general rule of thumb, brand new PCs are like brand new cars- as soon as you drive them off the show room floor they loose about 15-20% of their value and keep on going down hill from there. If no one wants it, it isn't worth anything. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 550208 | 2007-05-16 09:34:00 | I'd pay about 600-700 for that. Care if I bought it for 650? I would put it on for: Start $500 Reserve $600 Buy now $725 With any luck you'll get a few offers between $600 and $700, and just go for one of them. But really, just sell it to qazwsxokmijn, he's offering a good price, that's $690 if you take trademe fees into account. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 550209 | 2007-05-16 16:13:00 | If that doesn't work the first time, drop the price a bit.Yeah. Put the price around or a tad lower than what you'd ideally like, then if it doesn't sell simply reduce the reserve by about a hundred. And so on. | Greg (193) | ||
| 550210 | 2007-05-16 16:15:00 | I like a good, single-malted private reserve. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 550211 | 2007-05-16 16:19:00 | You just answered your own question . If that doesn't work the first time, drop the price a bit . As a general rule of thumb, brand new PCs are like brand new cars- as soon as you drive them off the show room floor they loose about 15-20% of their value and keep on going down hill from there . If no one wants it, it isn't worth anything . Or . . . . . . . . . . hold the item for another 60 years so our "Stuck in a time warp" member will want it dearly . . . or at least reminisce about it profoundly . <rimshot> Sorry, Terry . . . I hadda go there . A straight line like that needs to be yucked . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 550212 | 2007-05-16 21:32:00 | Why not keep the case and PSU and sell the contents? | pctek (84) | ||
| 550213 | 2007-05-16 21:55:00 | Why not keep the case and PSU and sell the contents? And I would also keep the HDD, you can NEVER have too much space ;) | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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