From: kscott@brahms.udel.edu (Nicole Lassiter)
Subject: AmCoEx price guide
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:39:06 GMT

Well, seeing some of the "I don't get it" posts and such I thought I would
post the American Computer Exchange price guide, as of mid October 1992.
The AmCoEx can give you more info at (800)786-0717, they are good people
trying to give buyers and sellers an honest feel for the worth of computers,
if they were trying to rip people off they wouldn't put out a price list.
Under no circumstances would they be deserving of flaming.  Skip the next
page if you are in a hurry.

Keep in mind:
1)  Computer equipment devalues quickly.  The fpu listing in September
    macmagazine for $180 may go to $99 the next month.  Sorry seller.

2)  Not all equipment is worth something to everybody.  If you have a "loaded"
    machine you limit the increased value to those who need the "loads", this
    cuts down on the number of buyers and decreases the "demand" side of
    supply and demand.  Sorry seller.

3)  You can usually get a better price in your local paper (well, if you live
    in the SF bay area who knows) tahn you can on the internet.  Your computer
    may be worth more than you are offered on the internet where many people
    have access to educational discounts.  Sorry Buyer.

4)  You can usually keep the computer equipment in the family.  Computers make
    great gifts (my mother-in-law loves her macXL/elephant-imagewriter for
    writing papers.  And I don't sweat the devaluation, whatever it is worth
    the full value is being used.

The bottom line is, it is worth more than you think of buying it for and less
than you think of selling it for.

Keep in mind that selling time is an unknown factor, if you need to sell fast
you should lower your expectations, if you can wait long enough you may sell
your computer for more than it is selling new (I once wrote a friendly letter
indicating the current IIsi prices vs. his selling price.  He wrote back that
he had sold the machine at his price.  I had no way of verifying, but would
discourage people from trying to find "suckers").  In general, if you are not
forced to sell you should wait for a fair price, if you get greedy and wait too
long you will suffer from the quick devaluation of computers.  Running an
auction may be fine, but if you take too long your highest bidder will back
out of the deal if you get back to him/her a month later.

The change in prices were affected by Apple's cut in prices last month.

Machine				Avg Buy Bid	Avg Sell Ask	Close	Change

Mac Plus			300		600		400	-50
MacSE 20mb			500		900		800	n
MacSE30 40mb			1300		1900		1550	-50
MacII 40mb			1400		2150		1750	-50
MacIIcx 80mb			2000		2600		2350	-200
MacIIci 80mb			2200		3100		2750	-400
LaserwriterPlus			900		1400		1000	n
LaserwriterNT			1500		2000		1450??	-50
HPlaserjetII			500		950		900	n
IBM AT339			300		600		375	-50
IBM PS/2 model 30/286 20mb	400		750		550	-50
IBM PS/2 model 50Z 30mb		500		850		650	+25
IBM PS/2 model 70 60mb		1000		1500		1125	+25
IBM PS/2 model 80 70mb		1050		1600		1375	n
CloneAT 20mb			250		600		400	n
Clone Notebook 386SX 40mb	950		1400		1050	+25
Clone 386/SX 40MB VGA		500		950		750	-25
Clone 386/25 40MB VGA		600		1100		875	+25
Clone 386/33 40MB VGA		800		1350		1050	+25
Clone 486/25 80MB VGA		1000		1550		1300	n
Compaq SLT/286 20mb		350		900		775	-25
Compaq LTE/286 40mb		600		1000		850	n
Compaq Portable II 20mb		250		700		425	+25
Compaq Portable III 40mb	400		850		625	n
Compaq Deskpro 286 40mb		300		700		375	-50
Compaq Deskpro 386/20e 100mb	1200		1800		1500	-50
Toshiba 1200HB			500		950		700	n
Toshiba 1200XE			500		950		800	-25
Toshiba 1600			500		900		825	-25
Toshiba T-3100SX		1000		1500		1100	-50
Toshiba 5200			1100		1850		1550	-50

Taken from _Delaware_Computer_User_
Not responsible for typos (proofread), please email me and/or followup
kscott@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu   Kevin Scott (not Nicole)