[Coco] NEW NORMAL

[Richard Goedeken]

I agree with everyone that $300 for a coco 3 seems very high.  It was only a
few years ago that I picked up one on ebay for $25, and I got one that was
supposedly NIB for something like 130.  But from looking at recent price
history on ebay, I think the $300 was an anomaly; I have no idea why this
machine with this really beat-up box sold for that much.

>From my own thoughts on bidding on a lot of auctions; I have realized that
there are only 2 people who matter in setting the final price of an auction.
The person who bids the most obviously wins and makes the purchase.  But
whoever bids the 2nd most amount is the one who sets the price.  Everyone else
doesn't matter.  So seeing one of them go for this much, only means that there
are at least 2 people in the whole market (which, for ebay, is enormous) who
are willing to pay this much.

Looking at prices of other Coco 3 auctions which have sold in the past 3
months, I see:  $172.50 (w/ 3 joysticks), $150, $143, $125, $117.79, $150,
$130, $129, $44.76, $199.99 (w/ floppy, manuals, games), $99.99, $107.50,
$149.99 (w/ games), $102.50, $75, $92.51.

So $300 is still exceptional.  I would say going market price is 125-150.  If
you want to buy one and not pay too much, look for an auction that ends in the
middle of the day, and use a sniping tool to bid in the last 10-15 seconds.

Richard

On 07/15/2015 08:20 PM, Sean wrote:
> Well, I did pay like $175 for a 512k CoCo 3 memory expansion once.
> 
> In 1990...
> 
> That was many many months of allowance saved up!  :)
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> 
> 
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:54 PM, camillus <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> To all it may concern,
>>
>> Maybe I did overreact,  and I apologize for using "inappropriate" words.
>> I'm just so PO, to see that so many people are being ripped.
>>
>> I do not however take back that the price war is insane and will
>> eventually end in the fact that many "coco lovers" will have to cease there
>> hobby.
>>
>> Imagine when  the "superIDE" controller will eventually be there, which I
>> expect that will be soon, and I guess that it would be not cheaper then
>> $200, and add there the nice SDC floppy emulator $25, and the new static
>> 512 memory expansion card for $50 I think it was. This would add up to $275
>> and then a coco 3 for $300 gives a total of $575.
>>
>> And for the ones that like to have LCD monitor they have to add the
>> rgb2vga adaptors of which I lost track of the prices, but say avg. $100
>> then the bill goes to $675.
>> And you do need an MPI for the two cards I mentioned before, another $80
>> to $100 would be my guess??
>>
>> Will eventually be close to $1000 when a complete set is set on the table
>> with all the odds and ends. Not bad for a "vintage computer of 35 years
>> old". Wonder how much that would eventually end up on eBay, newnormal
>> thinking maybe $3000 ?
>>
>> Sorry but I refuse to call this "NEW NORMAL" and out-loud insane and I
>> regret that if my coco3 breaks down,
>> it will be the last one that I ever owned.
>>
>> Maybe I should put it on eBay now, then I can buy me some commodore 64,
>> also a vintage computer and close as old as the coco, but still around for
>> less then $50, or maybe the new FPGA board with LINUX is only $500 and then
>> I can emulate as many old vintage computers for which there are cores.
>>
>> Again my apology for using degrading words...
>>
>> cb
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