RE: Buying 170 - What's it worth, what's it missing?

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

The system has v5r1, all the standard pgm products. I dont know the details
of the lease, just what the dp mgr told me about the price offer.

I have been burned twice by ibm, buying a 150 and a system before that in
the 15K range, only to see the value drop to nothing without a fair upgrade
offer. Admittedly I dont know everything about the current state of the used
as400 market, just that it looks to be a buyers market. A lot more systems
available to be sold then people willing to spend 10K to buy.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brian D. James
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:49 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Buying 170 - What's it worth, what's it missing?


Steve,

That's interesting. Do you know if that price included the LPPs ( Client
Access, SQL Dev Kit, ADTS, RPG, etc.) or was it just for the hardware and
the OS?

Thanks,

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:37 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Buying 170 - What's it worth, what's it missing?


Hi Brian,

Sorry I cant give specifics.

My comments on what a used as400 is worth today is based on the lessor
telling the lessee that they could keep their loaded v5r1, 500 interactive
cpw 720 for $8000. Other info is less concrete. CE on site for the day
saying the 720 is worth $4000, the prices on ebay dropping drastically over
the last 6 months, IBM moving the system in the linux direction which will
need a lot more cpu.

Hope this helps,

Steve Richter


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