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| LC 550 sells for over $100 |
Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2008-02-17 21:12:43
I just sold a LC 550 to someone in Iceland. The computer sold for only $39 though (buy it now price). Shipping is $173.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-02-20 17:14:21
Actually, the reason the 550 in particular is in demand is for its logic board. You can easily put one in a Colour Classic (the CCII used almost the same board if not the same board as the 550) and a lot of folks who didn't get the 550 in their country would want to do that (as would people who did have 550s in their countries).
Otherwise, it's just an AIO Mac LCIII+.
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Posted by: alk on 2008-02-20 19:59:24
Why bother with the 550 in a Color Classic when the 575 has an '040? I don't buy that argument...
Peace,
Drew
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-02-20 20:38:09
Wasn't the 575 the one that needed to be modified somehow to get into a CC? Or am I thinking the PowerPC boards?
I'll have to look it up...but not tonight, I've got to get to bed early!
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Posted by: ~tl on 2008-02-21 02:59:51
Nope, it's the 580, 630 or any PPC boards that need the "Takky" upgrade. 57x boards are the same size as the original CC ones.
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Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-02-21 03:28:16
heh. I've gotten sniped on a couple of your auctions, Mike. (Nothing recently, though, and there's no way I'd pay $100 for one of those, even with free shipping! Not that I don't want one, but that price is a bit high for my tastes.
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Posted by: ClassicMac on 2019-02-24 09:44:38
Meanwhile we can find 550's selling for 100+ any day now
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Posted by: pcamen on 2019-02-24 13:40:06
I've often wished there was some easy way to classify old auctions to pull out pricing information and graph trends for various vintage mac systems and components. I did something sorta similar (but not Mac related), simply counting the number of listings on eBay for items that match certain keywords, and now have a 10 year history of that graphed, which shows the increase in the general level of interest over the time period, and some insight into yearly cycles, but not much else.
eBay would be such a great set of data to mine about vintage Mac prices and number of listings over the years.
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Posted by: agg24 on 2019-02-24 18:54:27
That would be a fun project. It is such a difficult project to properly classify everything, however, which makes a lot of eBay automation mostly useless.
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Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2019-02-25 05:23:49
eBay is a bit of a strange animal. It used to be, loooooonnnng long ago, that you could view completed auctions going back at least 6 months, sometimes up to a year. Now, they supposedly only keep completed information for up to 90 days but I've still been able to pull completed info for auctions that ended years ago through luck of the draw in a web search. Some of the pictures might not work any longer but you get an end price and listing description. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.
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Posted by: SalvationCoder on 2019-02-25 17:37:40
From what I've seen, I presume that Macs have a roughly V-shaped curve when value is plotted over time. Expensive when they first come out, the value drops over 10-20 years until they're considered nothing more than obsolete and worthless, and then from that point on the value rises as they get "vintage" status and become increasingly rare as the ones that weren't just thrown away when they were worthless are bought up by collectors.
I think the 5xx series in particular has a steeply increasing value because so many of them have literally gotten smashed to bits. If you want one, get it at the going price now, or you'll be paying over $1,000 in a few years.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2019-02-25 18:10:36
LC550's make a decent small AIO mac retro gaming system and it is cheaper then a CC.
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