Jerry wrote:
>> R D S wrote:
>>>> Looking for £90 delivered for them, ebuyer want £120 new each.
>>> I think they warrant a better saving than £30 over a new one.
>> That surely depends on how much of the original 2 years warranty is
>> remaining.
>>
>>> I'd give £60 for one if you find them lingering around.
>> I'd suggest that £20 immediate, plus £5 a month would be a reasonable
>> depreciation rate for the first year. So, they would need to be 8 months
>> old to fall to that amount..
>>
>> --
>> Sue
>>
> Sure that's female logic.
> Ebuyer price of £120 is including vat, which would be about £18.
> As used items I presume we're not including vat here so one might round this
> down to £100 new price, unless OP is vat registered and will issue a vat
> invoice with goods. I think not.
> So, nett price (new) is about £100.
> I don't know where you get your depreciation figures, or time lines, from
> but they sure as heck ain't from an accountant.
What on Earth has an accountant got to do with it? This is a person to
person sale of items, not a "must go" situation. An accountant would not
place any value on a few isolated items like these. Whereas /some
members of this group/ would - even if working but out of warranty.
> IMHO £60 is a generous offer for an item of unknown age and quality (note
> that the hdd manufacturer is not quoted nor is the country of manufacture).
>
> I may be wrong, and would love to be proved so, but I think a reseller would
> not offer more than £10-15 for these
>
I rather think that the seller has an end user in mind as the would-be
purchaser. So what a reseller would offer isn't of much relevance -
unless the OP starts saying "must go".
How I arrived at the rough and ready valuation was: I think that there
is a reasonable chance that /someone here/ would pay £100 for a BNIB
one, here. However, for a whole heap of reasons*, I put the value of one
of these, a year old, as being around £40. If a dozen portable drives
between BNIB and one year old were on sale, it would be reasonable for
one a bit newer to fetch a little more than one a bit older - an mx+c is
an adequate model for that.
*I can bore you with a list of factors that I think should be included,
if you like.
Female logic would be, it has apparently been owned and used by a man,
so has probably been dropped a few times, left in a train or taxi and
reclaimed form lost property once or twice, half the screws will be
missing and those that aren't will be the wrong ones and half of those
will be cross threaded, it will either be filled with porn or Trident
targetting..etc.. :)
--
Sue
