Watching eBay
You'd think that with a new, fully featured base station on the way for $199 in the next few days to weeks that eBay would have already reflected this price drop in reselling new and used graphite and snow units? Yes and know (as in "in the know"). The average price for a graphite seems way down to about $100 or so. But people are still paying $175 to $200 or more for new and used snow base stations.
Advise your friends! Fool your enemies. The eBay price for a snow should be less than $150 within the next two weeks as reality finally sets in once the Extreme units ship.
Comments
The ebaY factor should never be observed as rational, reasonable, or even predictable.
In fact, the only thing predicable about ebaY bidders is that 99% of them don't follow Apple product introductions close enough to stay their bidding finger when bidding on recently outdated products.
Perhaps this is less a lesson in following Apple closely enough not to overpay for Airport Basestations, but more of a lesson in how small a group we are that know exactly when and what new stuff Apple has tossed to its most feverent of followers.
Posted by: matthew | January 28, 2003 05:14 AM