ROFL!! Blows my mind that people just assume eBay is the be-all and
end-all of 2nd hand selling. What a joke...
It's just one site;
there are hundreds of potential places to sell on the net; eBay is
just one of them. They key to getting a good sale is to aim at the
right market. eBay is *the* worst place to do that, it's a blind shot
in the dark when it comes to attracting the right buyer to get the
best possible sale.
Auctions on eBay are not 'prices', they're merely winning bids, while
fixed priced listings for new items from commercial sellers tend to be
overpriced. Suggesting that what an item sells for via auction somehow
denotes its inherant value is just ludicrous. Any auction is subject
to the massive vagueries of who happens to see the listing, who is
able to bid at the time, the time of day (for buyers, best time is
mid-morning and mid- afternoon when many potential rival bidders are
at work; for sellers, these would be the worst ending times for
listings), and there are loads of entities, both personal &
professional, who either do not use eBay or are not allowed to. I sell
items to a vast range of global companies for good amounts, none of
which are permitted to use eBay.
ebay is not and never will be an _objective_ measure of an item's
value; to suggest otherwise it just bizarre, and very misleading to
someone who is asking how much something is worth. An item is only
ever worth what someone is willing to pay. All you're doing is telling
the OP how much a 580 might be worth on _eBay_ (which biases the buyer
pool way down the scale), but that's NOT what the guy asked, so stop
giving him bad advice and be a bit more aware that there are much
wider markets out there for computer parts than just boring ebay. As I
just said, I sold two standard 580s recently for about $170 each,
because I know they are very highly valued as low-cost CUDA cards for
After Effects, and I'm about to sell a 3GB 580 for about $250. If the
OP wants to maximise his return, that's the market to target, not low-
brow eBay. There are dozens of sites dedicated to
imaging/effects/video, such as creativecow.net, and most of them have
marketplaces. To the OP, take some time to explore these sites, see
what's out there. Otherwise, you're just throwing away at least $200.
I mean ye gods, if I only used ebay to sell the SGI stuff I mainly
deal with, I couldn't get 10% of the amounts I can sell things for.
Ian.