[cincon]

i have a powermac G3 (Blue & White G3) 350mhz, 256 ram, 20 gig hd, os 9.1, os X. i want to sell it but am not sure how much it is worth. any opinions would be greatly appreciated.

thanx

[sek929]

Anything with it (Monitor, periphrials, etc?)

What about software besides the OS?

Off the top of my head I'd say 1000 with just the info your giving me.

[OldManMac]

I was just talking to a fellow Mac sales colleague of mine tonight, and he has a chance to pick up a B&W (not sure yet what speed, but 350Mhz is the slowest) from someone who bought 4 of them due to a going out of business sale. He's getting the machine for $400, which is darn cheap; but my friend follows the used Mac market (I don't), and he said the machine he's buying is worth $500 - $600. Eighteen months ago, I bought a B&W 350, 128Mb, 12Gb demo for $999 from the Apple Specialist where I work, so, unless you're throwing in a lot of stuff, $1000 seems high to me. Your best bet is to check on e-bay and see what they're going for.

[cincon]

thanks all. the machine comes with an apple monitor, all accessories, including video out cable, vga monitor adapter, an external modem, internal modem, 2 ethernet ports (1 OEM, the other installed for secure network, i.e. file sharing, sharing internet connection with ip net router)

software includes:
OS 9.1, OS X, OS X Developer Tools

adobe photoshop, acrobat 5.0, illustrator 9.0, photo deluxe 2.0
roxio's toast titanium 5.01
ms office 1998, ms office 2001
virex 6.0
tech tool 3.01
stuffit deluxe 6.01
IP Net Monitor, IP Net Router
Astarte CD-Copy 2.02
Ajax (Virus Utility - useful with the 666 virus)
Virtual PC 3.0 (Windows 2000), 4.0 (Windows 95), 3.0 (Windows 98)
Quicken 2001
MacLink Deluxe 13.0
Fax Stf 6.0
Connectix Virtual Game Station 4.0
Mac Bench 5.0
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 9.0
+ other misc. applications all on harddrive, i.e. iTunes, Eudora, MS Explorer, MS Messenger, etc.

Games: Oni, Falcon 4.0, Diablo II, Myth II, Star Wars Pod Racer, Carmageddon I & II, and more.

entire drive would remain intact. Also includes Internal Zip Drive, OEM microphone, Macally iKey Keyboard and Macally iOptinet Optical Mouse, Plus an extra usb mouse that came with the computer.

hope this helps, thanks in advance

[cincon]

forgot to mention: radeon 32mb pci graphics card
also included.

thanks again.

[Leonis]

On the software side:

Unless you have all the original software CDs, you can't really drive the price up. This is because you are giving away the illegal stuff and they can't be worth anything.....

[Scotttheking]

This is headed to the buy/sell forum.

[cincon]

i cd's of software are included if i decide to sell. i just want a price range.


thanks in advance

[sek929]

With all those goodies you could def get 1000+ for that machine....and I wouldn't settle for anything less.

Don't use ebay, you will get far less money than you want....find a buyer in the local area, put out and add, ask some friends, and let people know that you are going to sell your machine. Your best bet is to find a college student who is computer-less.

[Cowdog]

I sold my old blue and white 350/192/6/cdrw/mouse/keyboard (web page) pretty basic system... on ebay for $800 buy it now + $30 shipping. Could I have gotten more for it? I don't know, I stripped it pretty much stock, so I think I got what it was worth.

You might be better off selling the accessories separate if you want to get max dollar, bundle deals usually come with extras that people really didn't want in the first place and end up selling anyway.

If you want to try and sell it locally, since you're in sacramento (?) try www.craigslist.org, place a free post, there are a lot of flakes on there and stuff tends to go a little low but you'll get like 10 emails about it with various offers and you won't have to deal with shipping if one of them is good.

edit: ubb

[ 09-21-2001: Message edited by: Cowdog ]

[cincon]

should i also sell the monitor as a set? i don't see to many desktop cpu's with a monitor as well, which is how i purchased it on apple.com - i bought the monitor separately. should i include it? and if so how much is the o.g. monitor for the b & w g3 anyway?

thanks again in advance.