I just sold a LC 550 to someone in Iceland. The computer sold for only $39 though (buy it now price). Shipping is $173.
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LC 550 sells for over $100
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Actually, the reason the 550 in particular is in demand is for its logic board. You can easily put one in a Colour Classic (the CCII used almost the same board if not the same board as the 550) and a lot of folks who didn't get the 550 in their country would want to do that (as would people who did have 550s in their countries).
Otherwise, it's just an AIO Mac LCIII+.
Otherwise, it's just an AIO Mac LCIII+.
Wasn't the 575 the one that needed to be modified somehow to get into a CC? Or am I thinking the PowerPC boards?
I'll have to look it up...but not tonight, I've got to get to bed early!
I'll have to look it up...but not tonight, I've got to get to bed early!
heh. I've gotten sniped on a couple of your auctions, Mike. (Nothing recently, though, and there's no way I'd pay $100 for one of those, even with free shipping! Not that I don't want one, but that price is a bit high for my tastes.
Meanwhile we can find 550's selling for 100+ any day now
I've often wished there was some easy way to classify old auctions to pull out pricing information and graph trends for various vintage mac systems and components. I did something sorta similar (but not Mac related), simply counting the number of listings on eBay for items that match certain keywords, and now have a 10 year history of that graphed, which shows the increase in the general level of interest over the time period, and some insight into yearly cycles, but not much else.
eBay would be such a great set of data to mine about vintage Mac prices and number of listings over the years.
eBay would be such a great set of data to mine about vintage Mac prices and number of listings over the years.
eBay is a bit of a strange animal. It used to be, loooooonnnng long ago, that you could view completed auctions going back at least 6 months, sometimes up to a year. Now, they supposedly only keep completed information for up to 90 days but I've still been able to pull completed info for auctions that ended years ago through luck of the draw in a web search. Some of the pictures might not work any longer but you get an end price and listing description. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.
From what I've seen, I presume that Macs have a roughly V-shaped curve when value is plotted over time. Expensive when they first come out, the value drops over 10-20 years until they're considered nothing more than obsolete and worthless, and then from that point on the value rises as they get "vintage" status and become increasingly rare as the ones that weren't just thrown away when they were worthless are bought up by collectors.
I think the 5xx series in particular has a steeply increasing value because so many of them have literally gotten smashed to bits. If you want one, get it at the going price now, or you'll be paying over $1,000 in a few years.
I think the 5xx series in particular has a steeply increasing value because so many of them have literally gotten smashed to bits. If you want one, get it at the going price now, or you'll be paying over $1,000 in a few years.
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