Selling my 12" powerbook G4, 512 MB, 1Ghz

[f1restarter]

Hi, i've decided to upgrade to the 15" PB and therefore thinking about selling my 12" powerbook. Works and looks perfectly fine but the battery is just getting worn out now and gives me about an hour of work. Would $600 be a good asking price for it? Im asking cause i have no experience with Apple as this is my first powerbook. thanks

btw it comes with the wireless extreme card that i bought separately for it.

[ITASOR]

Hi, i've decided to upgrade to the 15" PB and therefore thinking about selling my 12" powerbook. Works and looks perfectly fine but the battery is just getting worn out now and gives me about an hour of work. Would $600 be a good asking price for it? Im asking cause i have no experience with Apple as this is my first powerbook. thanks

btw it comes with the wireless extreme card that i bought separately for it.


LOL $600 is WAY too low. :)

You're looking at more around $800 minimum.

[doucy2]

Mods put this in the marketplace

would you take trade for this Ti book laptop?

[Patmian212]

Mods put this in the marketplace

would you take trade for this Ti book laptop?
Mods cant put in in the marketplace, newbies arent allowed to post threads in the marketpalce.

[doucy2]

Mods cant put in in the marketplace, newbies arent allowed to post threads in the marketpalce.
good call
i hope they dont close it then
but rules are rulesit will probally be closed sometime soon

[f1restarter]

Thanks for the useful advice ITASOR. I have heard that the Apple powerbooks hold their value really well. BTW it's not a titanium notebook (black KB), it's the Aluminum 12" powerbook (silver KB).

[840quadra]

good call
i hope they dont close it then
but rules are rulesit will probally be closed sometime soon

He is asking for pricing advice, not to sell it on here. Granted this is "grey" area, but I don't see the violation.

[Vlade]

$800 is to high, you can get a new 1.4 with wireless for $1000 or $900(edu). I sold the same exact laptop as you (with a RAM upgrade) for $700 and thought I got a good deal.

[Jschultz]

$800 is to high, you can get a new 1.4 with wireless for $1000 or $900(edu). I sold the same exact laptop as you (with a RAM upgrade) for $700 and thought I got a good deal.

Huh? A new 1.5 ghz 12" powerbook is still $1399 from the EDU store at Apple.

I just did a quick completed search for his spec of computer on eBay, and the first 3 I found were $799, $810, and $830. Some of these had a superdrive, so take that into consideration.

I think the person who you sold your laptop to got a good deal. Then again, it is Christmas time, and people are paying stupid prices for gifts. I remember I sold a 500 mhz iBook months after I bought it during the holiday rush for only 50 dollars less than I originally bought it for. Go figure.

Anywho, do a recent search of completed items on eBay. That'll give you a rough guesstimate of where you should start at.

[bousozoku]

He is asking for pricing advice, not to sell it on here. Granted this is "grey" area, but I don't see the violation.

Well, as long as no deal is made, it should be fine. Anyone who might consider buying this would do so at their own risk since they would be participating in something against the Marketplace rules.

[f1restarter]

Thank you all for your good advice. Since i've always had a PC so i thought the Apple loses their value just as quick. My PB does not have a super drive, just a cd burner and dvd reader. Anyway, if i do get to sell it for about $600, i can live with it since the buyer will eventually have to buy a new battery and could use the old batt as a backup. :)

[asherman13]

Thank you all for your good advice. Since i've always had a PC so i thought the Apple loses their value just as quick. My PB does not have a super drive, just a cd burner and dvd reader. Anyway, if i do get to sell it for about $600, i can live with it since the buyer will eventually have to buy a new battery and could use the old batt as a backup. :)

seriously???? post all the specs, if you know them, including when you bought it. that will give us a better idea of how much you should charge. i.e., ram? hd space? cpu speed? graphics card? bluetooth?

EDIT: nevermind; i didn't read the title on the original post. sorry; my bad...:o

[f1restarter]

seriously???? post all the specs, if you know them, including when you bought it. that will give us a better idea of how much you should charge. i.e., ram? hd space? cpu speed? graphics card? bluetooth?

EDIT: nevermind; i didn't read the title on the original post. sorry; my bad...:o

lol, i bought it almost 2 years ago (march '04) from ConUSA (compusa) for about $1700 i believe, tax and all. It has bluetooth, Nvidia graphics card with 32MB video ram, 40GB HDD.