Advice on a reasonable price for a 2nd hand PC

Hi guys

I've an interesting problem that I would like some advice on. I have a
Compaq desktop PC that has a COA licence of Windows 2000 Professional. I've
added a bit of extra ram to take it to 500mb and there's a 20gb hard drive.
An HP 4x cd writer and all the usual other bits: usb, lan, ps2, keyboard,
parallel port, serial port, a keyboard, a mouse and a 14" Philips monitor.

My question is: Is it reasonable for me to expect someone to pay $350 for
this or do you guys think that I'm asking for too much? I know that 2nd hand
PC's have dropped quite a bit, but surely there's some value in a win2k
licence - or am I being naive

Thanks for any responses.

paul

 

Depends Paul.

You've missed a few other significant details like CPU, & graphics.

 

bugger sorry mate. you're right.

it is a pentium III 800mhz cpu. onboard AGP graphics with a dedicated 4mb
ram module for the graphics (fits into the agp slot).

 

The monitor is a bit crap but other than that your price isn't too
unreasonable as long as the CD writer still writes etc. If I had the money
I'd be trying to knock you down a bit and buy it myself, I want a Win 2K Pro
licence and the machine would find a home somewhere on my LAN.

The 2K Pro licence would be worth $150 if it wasn't OEM, tied to the
machine. $50 if it is and includes a proper MS install CD and there's
someone out there who needs the machine. (All in my opinion).

Shame it's a Compaq.

 

Hmmm... sounds reasonable to me, especially with the license.

If you took another $50 off, I think you'd definitely be getting offers.
But, $350 not a bad price.

 

Wrong forum to guage price. Probably $100 to somone here but maybe $500
'out there' dependant on several factors but CPU most important to the
uninitialted.

 

The warehouse is selling a new Dell for $1000...now that is a price to
think about.

regards

Thing

 

I've an interesting problem that I would like some advice on. I have a

How long would you think about it? It has no floppy drive. That is
an extra at time of purchase, as is extra RAM and they charge about
$100 if you want them to come and set it up for you. Given that the
integrated graphics require 32 - 64megs of the 256Mb of RAM that it
comes with, that doesn't leave enough for Win XP to run in. What is
the quality of the monitor like? What is the CD burner like?

You could build a better one for similar money yourself. I priced
some components, from NZ online suppliers, to build a system for $999
that included a DVD burner but no OS. Replace the DVD burner for a
cheap CD burner and you have the money for the oem XP.