Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD

Posted by: Taym

Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 27/08/2004 05:24

I'm buying a MK2a with no hdd from a friend. Perfect conditions. All oroginal accessories.
What would a fair market price be?

I'm happy to be part of the multi-empeg owners club, now
Posted by: Shonky

Re: Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 27/08/2004 06:20

You have to consider that the drives in an empeg don't add much value since they are almost an expendable commodity i.e. they go out of date reasonably quickly and are easily replaced. Sure there's a difference between a 200GB and 20GB empeg because of the price of the 100GB drives. But when you are talking 20GB vs 0GB there's not much extra room to move. How much can you get a used 20GB laptop drive for these days? $30-50? If that?

That said I would pay somewhere around US$300 I think for a driveless empeg. But then I'm cheap...
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Re: Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 27/08/2004 09:29

Depends if it comes with the sled and accessories. I'm not aware of too many driveless empegs that have sold, but I recently paid 200 for one (but am still waiting for it) that had no sled or remote.
Posted by: Taym

Re: Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 27/08/2004 09:41

I too was thinking of $ 300.
Yes, it does come with all original accessories: sled, remote, ac adapter (US plug, but I'm in Italy. Not a big problem at all, though), original cd.
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Re: Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 27/08/2004 09:47

I think that's a fair price considering you have the know how to install a drive yourself.

If shipping wasn't so much, I'd take that AC adapter off your hands.
Posted by: FireFox31

Re: Fair Market Price for MK2a with no HDD - 28/08/2004 20:16

Yeah, $300 sounds about right. I haven't been up on prices lately, but I'd hope that $300 is near the floor of driveless empeg pricing. I'd hate to see such a tecnological gem slip below the price of a typical CD headunit.