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Jason Patterson wrote:
> 
> Darren Reed wrote:
> > Worth, maybe, $800 ?
> 
> Most of the offers have been in the $1500 area.
> 
> > Friend of mine picked up a headless 20/612 for $800 last week
> > (albiet it was headless).
> 
> Headless is a BIG factor here. I've had one offer of almost $1000
> for just the SX graphics VSIMM and the 128 MB of RAM.

Indeed.

[...]
> I think your $800 is way off the mark... The cheapest second hand
> dealers in the USA that I know of list the items for the following
> prices:
> 
>   SS20 base unit    $470 US      (www.memoryx.com)
>   2 x SM50 CPU's    $250 US      (www.sunvalleytech.com)
[...]
> I'm not trying to rip anyone off here, just trying to sell some
> systems that have been replaced during our recent round of upgrades.

And you're agreeing their prices are "reasonable" ?  Personally,
I'd beg to disagree.  Dual Pentium-II boards with SCSI (some dual
channel) can be had for the same price as the above, running at
100MHz (Front side bus) with a 33/66 MHZ PCI BUS rather than the
25MHz SBus.  I'd be waging that they're reselling systems they've
bought, so subtract some margin from the above (as much as 100%
for used SPARC systems, in my experience) to get a "true" value.

More the fool they are for paying so much.

Darren

p.s. that "100%" is based on a price quoted by someone trying to sell
a SS5/70 at a "swap meet" and to which I later found out the prive at
which they'd bought it as "used".