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In Reply to: Where/how to sell a music server PC? posted by gregeas on September 8, 2006 at 14:55:33:
Kind of like trying to sell DIY amps or speakers. If they can't read a review about it they don't want it or won't pay much for it.You are asking almost 80% of retail for a used piece that nobody knows much of anything about or have any idea if it works as promised. Your price is way too high, especially since most people aren't familiar with what you are offering or have any idea what it would cost to put it together. You didn't bother to list the retail price of each part so how does anybody know if retail is really that high?
A person knowledgeable about such devices will assume you listed the total of the retail prices of each component but you bought them for much less, especially the computer parts since they almost always sell for much less than retail. My server has eight 300 gig drives that retail for $150, but I was patient and bought them on sale for less than $100. I paid about 70% of retail for the whole box brand new. You want more than that used.
BTW excellent job of drawing attention to your ad on Audiogon.
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DIY stuff may be fantastic, but it is rough on resale pricing. I'd figure no more than half of the legitimate street price (not list) of the components.
...further reduced by a technology obsolesence factor and likely the fact that someone who is into building their own would rather build their own and everyone else want a name brand.I think this is going to be a real tough sell even at 1/3 of what you are asking.
On the plus side you are only selling one of them.
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