[SunRescue] Sparc Values

[jcarver]

Hi Chris,

Might have your IS dept. check again as to the value of those
Suns. Sun has recently made changes as to the value of trade-ins.

According to a good friend, who is a Sun Dealer, Sparc 4, 5, 10, 20
systems are now worth only a flat $200.00 on a trade-in. In many
cases, you have to purchase specific equip. to get any trade from
your stuff. I just got a few Sparc Arrays and a couple 1000E's for
an average of $75 ea. My company was only offered $50 each because 
they were not upgrading to the "right" models. While they were all
low end, minimally configured, just a year ago they were worth 10-20
times more in credit for new models.

				jim

Chris Powell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 05:06:50 -0800 (PST), kebabthesheep at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > --- Chris Powell <Chris_Powell at mitel.com> wrote: >
> > > There are sometimes bargains to be had from
> > > ebay.co.uk - recently I got
> > > a dual 60MHz SPARC 10 with a 17" monitor (screen
> > > burn, but OK) for just
> > > over 200 which is pretty good value I think.
> >
> > That's pretty good - can't have had much ram though?
> 
> 64Mb in 4x16Mb DIMMs. :) There were actually 7 or 8 of these SS10s
> on eBay at the same time from the same guy - most were 2x50MHz, but
> I managed to get one with 2x60MHz (runs Quake pretty well :)
> 
> > > I'm also under the impression that Sun still
> > > give fairly generous
> > > rebates on old machines for upgrade (5 or 10% off
> > > list price).
> >
> > I believe this is still partially true, i'm not sure
> > whether they will p/x really old stuff still - i'll
> > ask.
> 
> Our IS department insists they are worth money - hence it's impossible
> to get even one of the pile of IPX/SS2 machines from work. Last time I
> looked Sun even offered something upgrading a Sun3 or 386i machine!
> 
> > > Other UK-based Sun VARs: Peripheral Technology
> > > (Derby), Stellar (London),
> > > Amtec (not sure where they are based).
> >
> > I tried, yahoo.co.uk, and www.yell.co.uk, but didn't
> > drag any of them up :(  I'll try again.  They london
> > one sounds promising tho - i've got monday off work :)
> 
> http://www.peritech.co.uk/
> http://www.stellarperformance.com/
> http://www.amtecgroup.co.uk/
> http://www.summit-tech.co.uk/
> http://www.exquip.com/
> 
> I believe Stellar deal a lot with the City, so are probably used to
> asking top whack for stuff.
> 
> Exquip list bare SS2/LC machines for 75, bare LX machines for 125.
> 
> > Unfortunantly I only use them at home, at the moment.
> > We have a sun on order at work, for bench-testing, but
> > since our purchasing dept. decided to order it from
> > PC-world, things have gone a little downhill.
> > Apparently (according to the PC-world sales-droid sun
> > are going out of business!) it's "on it's way" only
> > been waiting 6 months so far, so still hopefull...
> 
> Didn't even know PC-World would sell you a Sun!
> 
> Chris.
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