used computer prices

[ndurbin]

anybody know where I can look up the value of my used computer? I found one website but they wanted $4 to tell me how much it was worth.



TIA

Nathan

 

[Texas Diesel]

Good question.



Go here and you can browse computer classifieds for free, perhaps get an idea on value



http://www.usedcomputer.com/classifieds/XcClassified.asp

 

[Chipstien]

As a rule of thumb... ... . not very much.

 

[RobertBolinger]

Originally posted by Chipstien

As a rule of thumb... ... . not very much.

Computers are unlike almost any other commodity. If CTD's performance improved at the yearly rate of computers they would have to add 50HP and 100 FT/Lbs of torque every year. Lets see, in 2008 525 HP and 1000 FT/Lbs



Look on Ebay-it's easy to do a search on completed items-see what they are selling for...

 

[Texas Diesel]

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "if GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25. 00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon. "



In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:



1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.



2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.



3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.



4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.



5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT", but then you would have to buy more seats.



6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would only run on five percent of the roads.



7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.



8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.



9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying.



10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.



11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (Now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish by 50% or more.



12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.



13. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.