Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

[David H. Barr]

As the originator of this branch of off-topic-shenanigans, I hereby
declare this portion of the thread finished.  Take it back to the
floppy timing discussion, and thanks for all the fish. «grin»

-dhbarr.


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:34:06 -0800 (PST), Vintage Computer Festival
<vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> 
> > I did offer some pricing suggestions.  My biggest suggestion is to try
> > and sell all of it, or at least a larger percentage than is currently
> > done.  Almost all of it should sell, at the right price.  If there is
> 
> I don't want to speak for Goodwill, and this thread is pretty much a
> nuisance by now, but this is naive and unrealistic.  You're right that
> "almost all of it should sell", but there's only so much shelf space,
> there's only so much time you're willing to have crap cluttering your
> shelves, and there's only so much profit (or none at all, or even a loss)
> in the prices it would take to sell most of the PC crap that comes through
> the door.  Goodwill stores are not setup to sell used commodity PC dreck.
> 
> The whole purpose of suggesting the price guide was to sort out the GEMS
> from the majority of the crap that comes through (i.e. use it first as a
> field guide to understand what you have), then choose an appropriate
> price.
> 
> > error in the price it should be on the low side, not the high side,
> > because the goal is too sell it, not have sit, and the only cost that
> > needs to be covered is the handling cost.
> 
> Retail sales is more complicated than this.
> 
> > Something else that David could try, would be to get a copy for himself,
> > and right down a summary, in the form of a sheet or two, that each
> > stores uses to price things, computer related.  Like a quick reference
> > sheet.  It wouldn't be all inclusive, obviously, but I think it would
> > get used more often than a book, yet not be taken as law, either.
> 
> So using a price guide to identify specific computers that already has a
> suggested price range to choose from is too complicated, but sending out a
> "summary sheet" to all the stores that asks the same employees you just
> finished saying aren't capable of utilizing a price guide to apply totally
> subjective rules to select and price computers is not?
> 
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