Price Advice My oMP

First of all, that's an awesome machine. Very nice.

Here are my questions for you and what I would estimate the value based solely on my assumptions:

1. Is the RAM ECC or not?
2. Are the HDDs in RAID or not?
3. What did you use the machine for?
4. Did you have it pretty much powered on and in use for long periods of time?
5. Are you considering including any accessories such as a KB/Mouse?
6. Will you be downgrading the OS to SL before the sale?
7. Will you be including any original software that you might not need since you'll be using Mavericks? Such as iLife'09, iWork'09..etc.


I would personally consider finding a bracket for the SSD and make it the startup disc. Yes, that would incur more cost, but including the SSD along with that massive amount of storage from conventional drives would increase the value in my opinion.

Everymac has this estimated value between 2400-2700 and Mac2Sell has it estimated at 2,840.

I think it's worth more since there are people that will pay more money for this older style that they can expand internally as opposed to the limitation of the nMP on only being able to expand externally via TB2.

So I would say price it at $3100 and see if you get any buyers. But definitely use the SSD/HDD combo as a means to sell it. Good luck!

 

You're welcome!

1. System Profiler should tell you whether or not the RAM is ECC. If the RAM is ECC (which is more expensive) you might want to consider another bump to the price.

2. That's fine and probably better. That way the buyer can decide whether or not use all of the drives or not.

3. Cool.

4. Even better!

5. Good, and I think that will help you sell it faster in my opinion.

6. I would sell it with SL just to be safe. It was shipped with SL and all of the OS upgrades would have been purchased/downloaded with your AppleID. Since Mavericks is free, then the buyer should have no problem starting with Snow Leopard and upgrading as they see fit.

7. No worries then!

Given that it was used professionally but not left on all the time, I would further increase the selling price because of that. I would also increase it if you find the KB and Mouse.

I don't know what you're going to do as far as external storage for the nMP, but you might want to consider keeping one of the HDDs or two just in case. Plus, you can thunderbolt enclosures (or at least USB 3.0) enclosures or HDD docks and not having to repurchase that makes sense to me.

With all that, I would recommend leaving the SSD and maybe 2 of the HDDs and starting the sale with a price of about $3400. Good luck again!

 

The only other place that I like (but isn't always consistent) is the marketplace forum on MR. That way you're at leafs able to get it out there to other Mac users that would know the value of the machine.

Other than that, maybe Amazon. At least with those two, you have a better chance of getting what you ask or what you're at least comfortable getting for it. With CL, there will be too many people looking for a steal.

Allright then as far as storage. I personally think you have a pretty good chance of getting the price you want with the ECC RAM and all that storage. If I could afford it I would make it mine. Have fun!