MacPlus has announced a new free and international service to evaluate the price of a used Macintosh. “The Mac2Sell guide to used Macs” evolves every day and reference thousands of Apple configurations, standart or not.
“We wish to provide every web surfer in many countries, a free and easy-to-use service so that they can evaluate the price of an used Mac which they want to buy or sell – like everyone can do for a car”, explains Cédric Mériau, president of MacPlus.net. “The used Mac market is very healthy and the creation of such a price reference may contribute to his expansion.”
The Mac2Sell service is free: http://www.mac2sell.net
Wow, my old 15″ PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive is worth $1,200.
Guess I should have checked before I just passed it down to my 5 year old. That kid (God love him) will probably destroy it in a week. Oh well…
yipes that site is slow.
The site is likely slowed down by people visiting to see what their mac is worth…Behold the power of MDN.
But do they offer to buy it at that price? Or is it just a “suggestion”? It’s going to take me all day to get to the end as slow as that site is!
It is great if we can really sell our old stuff at these prices. I wonder if this is an average in the global market, or just the US (where Macs are definitely cheaper than elsewhere).
Based in France.
Might not be reflective of US market.
What the hell? I endured their painfully slow site, making my selections and filling in the form, only to have the final screen flash by for one nanosecond, then nothing. Blank.
Maybe they’re getting hammered right now, but really… I suspect their site is “optimized” for I.E., weird as that sounds.
Unbelievably slow website. Incredibly clunky interface. But possibly a useful resource. Of course, no allowance is made for regional differences in the used computer market. The “U.S.” is a very big place. No allowance is made for the condition of the computer either. My conclusion: use the information dispensed by this site with a grain of salt.
OK, I hit the back button from here and what do you know, the final screen appeared. Anyone wanna buy a Quad G5 with 4.5GB ram, 500MB RAID drive, superdrive, for the fantastically low price of $2260?
That’s with VAT included. Huh? Does this mean this is the price in Euros? (And yes, I did click USA to start.)
Okay, anyone who will give me $920 for my like-new 15″ PowerBook G4 1.33 with 1.25gigs of ram, 60gig HD, and CD burner, it’s theirs. Heck, I’ll even pay shipping.
A bit unrealistic pricing, for the US anyway. But I will ship it overseas for that price!
From what I read, obviously the price given is over estimate for US users, feel free to send us your configuration, your country, the price given and the price you think you could sell it.
All we wants is make it better !
And sorry for slowness, we’re improving as much as we can our server.
I’m with you Chris.
My G4 Sawtooth with 1GHz upgrade, 1 gig of ram and 120 gig drive was priced at $600!!!
I think their pricing is a bit high. I could imagine getting 300 for it.
Perhaps it’s a Microsoft site to accrue some useful statistics to demonstrate that 60% of Apple users wants to sell their Macs!
Limiting and slow.
I can get better info on eBay.
Imac 24 with 2.33 Intel Core Duo 2Gigs of RAM and the graphics card with 256 Megs RAM came up as $1700. Is that right? Seems low to me. It retails at $2549 new. $800 dollar depreciation. ????
I meant 2.33 Core2Duo
Here’s the what I use for finding the value of any particular Mac:
eBay – Completed Auction listings.
It’s what people have actually paid.
I went in a stole the very first Apple personal computer from the Cupertino headquarters building lobby. It’s serial number is #001.
This new site wants $34.50 for it.
I don’t know…seems a bit low to me. Who wants a million dollar computer for $34.50, anyone? It’s pretty friggin heavy though…shipping will run you around $999,965.50.
Slow day at work…
they’re at least 50% high on most computers, it seems.
my 1.5 ghz 15″ powerbook, 2 gb RAM, 80 gb HD, combo drive, for $1100? I’d sell it on the spot. I think more realistic is $700.
It doesn’t give you the right config options, tho. It doesn’t seem to let you show if your model has two processors, for the PowerMac line. No mention that it takes that into account in the background, either.
Not ready for prime time, I’d say.
MW: using, as in using that site should be done with a huge grain of salt!
They didn’t have options for my old Mac II with a 16MHz 68020 and a full 8MB RAM.