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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: DesktopJinx on Tue, 01 May 2012, 09:56:44
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D1%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8104687340217298091&_trksid=p4340.l2557&autorefresh=true&item=150804209343&nma=true&rt=nc&si=eOflmr9hK%252F2TU9POaV9q%252B3OrUcI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
With box and manual and foam-rubber wrist pads (but no box for the 10key).
Seller set the opening price at $995. I wonder how soon it will relist.
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Not that I am in the market, but I thought that these things sold in the $1200-1500 range.
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Not that I am in the market, but I thought that these things sold in the $1200-1500 range.
This was the second time that I've seen this item being listed on eBay. For the previous (i.e., first) listing, the starting bid was $1600.
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This one is not really overpriced now, $1,600 before was but this for $995 with the 10keypad isn't bad, just don't know how much higher it will go in today's market
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The description made a point of that M15 sold in late 2010 for over $1600... but that one was New In Box IIRC, and that was a price peak we haven't seen since, at least not that I've noticed. Used one two weeks earlier only topped $800.
I'd say $995 is a decent price for a complete-with-box original-owner M15 plus an inherited 10-key, but not a great price, unless you really covet the 10-key.
As a starting bid, meh.
I think I paid $655 last year for my M15 with the original box (internal cardboard is fine, external glossy box is a little ratty).
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Good price, suprising it didn't sell. And the Options by IBM one are rarer than the standard IBM ones. I realised you can make about 25% more if you list Model M's in the Vintage Computers catagory.
It's a nice board but I personally not a fan of ergonomics.
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People will probably wait till the price is lowered by the seller to about $500. Then bidding will push the price up to about $1-1.5k anyway. Moral of the story is to not get too greedy when setting the initial price.
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Have to consider that the market in this price range isn't all that big, and I suppose most of the MUST HAVE guyd already own one.
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People will probably wait till the price is lowered by the seller to about $500. Then bidding will push the price up to about $1-1.5k anyway. Moral of the story is to not get too greedy when setting the initial price.
Couldn't agree more. Same thing happening with this NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys (http://goo.gl/wmbgN), except the seller dropped his BIN price from $159 to $139 after a couple of days. But the price is still high IMHO - interesting to see if anyone bites at the new BIN price. The alternative approach would have been to start at, say, $97, in a normal auction format and see how high it goes. Someone was selling a few of these NIB for $100 not long ago.
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Good price, suprising it didn't sell. And the Options by IBM one are rarer than the standard IBM ones.
Options by IBM examples get listed all the time. Blue-windowshade-IBM logo'd examples are rarer than hen's teeth. (See sig.) The latter keyboards were only sold with IBM PCs (PS/2s); the former were sold separately.
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Relisted for the same $995 starting bid, now with an $1195 Buy It Now -- new post here. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?31078-ebay-US-IBM-M15-w-10key-relisted-starting-995-or-BIN-1195)