[rescue] how to put a value on a monster ...?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:21:03AM -0500, max trefonides wrote:
> Any idea what a range of value we're looking at?  I'm hoping for $10K - 
> $30K ea. but if they are worth more to someone then I don't want to sell 
> ourselves short ... (I hate buying cars too, there is no way to get out 
> of the deal without feeling "taken")  I'm thinking that the only way to 
> get a feel for the market is to post them with a high reserve and then 
> see what kinds of bids we get.  I am not greedy, (forgive me if I've 
> said this before), we want to use these as the seed for the beginnings 
> of a community based wireless network in Chicago.
> 
> We would consider a trade for, (a lot of), wireless equip.

Hello!?!  Unless the FC-AL boards add quite a lot more than I would
expect to the value of the machine, the 16proc machine you listed is in
no way shape or form going to sell for $30k, $20k, and I'd be shocked if
it even hit $10k.  We are only talking a few thousand here, tops.

This is a market where the Chanlenge Ls often don't manage to top a
grand, and the predator rack is not a 9 grand premium.

And a 6 proc R8k machine is going to be much less.

On the upside, you can do quite a bit of community based wireless
networking for under $10k, and all the machines together might come
close to $10k.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd