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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: was Mac IIsi (Repost)
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.163824.8397@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 16:38:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.013347.23522@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In article <1991Jan8.013347.23522@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> mmj@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Mostafa M. Jafari) writes:
>
>Ok, let's be fair to these guys.  I called our universities bookstore and asked
>for current prices.  Here it is:
>
>Mac IIsi with 2 Meg RAM and 40 Meg hard disk    $2789
>Extended keyboard                               $ 185
>
>For a total of $ 2974 plus 5.75% TAX = $ 3145.01

Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but technically speaking I think
you are obligated to collect sales tax when you sell something like this (just 
like a car).  With a car, it's easy to trace things like that, but with a 
computer it isn't since there's no license or registration, so it isn't likely
you'll get caught....

There are substantial price differences between schools, evidently - I'd
say your bookstore is hosing you.  Here we pay:

Mac IIsi with 2MB RAM and 40 MB disk  $2429
Apple Extended keyboard               $ 153

Anyway I think the lesson here is that you should plan on taking a big loss
when you sell a computer.  Just a like a new car, it depreciates dramatically
the minute it leaves the dealer - "like new" is *not* the same as "new".