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    Vintage Apple

    Came across this apple Macintosh 512k yesterday. Everything seems to work. Has keyboard, mouse, external disk drive, and printer. Think ill put it on ebay. Unless anyone here wants it for a fair price.



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    Pop the cover and see if Steve Jobs signed it. If he did, I'll give ya a couple bucks for it

    Cool find there Mike ; )

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    You should do quite well on eBay with it, since everything is working.

    Good Luck...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikedmissouri View Post
    Came across this apple Macintosh 512k yesterday. Everything seems to work. Has keyboard, mouse, external disk drive, and printer. Think ill put it on ebay. Unless anyone here wants it for a fair price.
    Mike, I sold one of those on eBay last year. To be more effective, take a lots of photos of the machine TURNED ON. I went as far as shooting short videos of it booting, running some games. Then open a free account on photobucket or a similar site, upload all the photos and videos there and add a link to it in your eBay listing (do you know how to add hyperlinks to the body of the listing?)

    Good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by ilyaz View Post
    Mike, I sold one of those on eBay last year. To be more effective, take a lots of photos of the machine TURNED ON. I went as far as shooting short videos of it booting, running some games. Then open a free account on photobucket or a similar site, upload all the photos and videos there and add a link to it in your eBay listing (do you know how to add hyperlinks to the body of the listing?)

    Good luck
    I dont have alot of experience with ebay. It didnt have ne disk with it so it just goes to a screen with a disk in the middle. Im wondering if I should include the printer in the auction. (it weighs alot) not sure if adds that much to the value of the lot.

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    Thats a freaking sweet score, can't remember the last time I got an apple that old that still worked. Use to have a couple apple II e and couple II gs. God I miss em, wished I would've kept em. The II e with the old green screen were sweet, use to play a lot of Oregon trail on them old apples.
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    Quote Originally Posted by taterjuice View Post
    Thats a freaking sweet score, can't remember the last time I got an apple that old that still worked. Use to have a couple apple II e and couple II gs. God I miss em, wished I would've kept em. The II e with the old green screen were sweet, use to play a lot of Oregon trail on them old apples.
    When I was about 8 or 9 my parents bought us a IIgs. Played a lot oregon trail too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikedmissouri View Post
    I dont have alot of experience with ebay. It didnt have ne disk with it so it just goes to a screen with a disk in the middle. Im wondering if I should include the printer in the auction. (it weighs alot) not sure if adds that much to the value of the lot.
    google that printer and look for posts on vintage computer forums, you might find info on it's worth

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikedmissouri View Post
    Played a lot oregon trail too.
    Used to play that game on the teletype at school...Good times!

    Nice score and good luck.
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    Sweet! Ilayz is spot on about the taking the time to do photos/videos the right way when selling via eBay. There is a large spread of prices for these, from $20 to $300+ and the photos are really what sell them. I have four of them as well is a few Apple IIe's I've never took the time to sell them yet but they are not worth scrapping. I know the scrapper in us wants to rip into it to see if there is a bar of gold but don't. In fact, I've carefully opened one of these already and it's nothing special inside. Hold it until you have time to sell it the right way. Just my .02.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikedmissouri View Post
    I dont have alot of experience with ebay. It didnt have ne disk with it so it just goes to a screen with a disk in the middle. Im wondering if I should include the printer in the auction. (it weighs alot) not sure if adds that much to the value of the lot.
    Do to ebay -> search -> advanced, then type the make and model, check the "completed listings" checkbox and search. You will see similar items that both sold and did not. You can try searching for the printer separately too. Open those listings that sold and read their descriptions. maybe you want to include some of the details from those ads in yours. Also this will give you an idea of the price range. I also suggest making shipping free but then the initial bid should at least cover shipping price. In order to estimate the shipping, find a box big enough to fit the whole thing in, measure its dimensions, weigh it and then get estimated shipping price from fedex/ups/usps websites.

    Selling on eBay is relatively easy but you definitely do not want to rush. Do you research.

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