{"id":1457,"date":"2011-04-11T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2011-04-11T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:21:22","slug":"rising-ebay-prices-for-apple-ii-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Rising Ebay Prices for Apple II Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a trend in rising prices for A2 systems on ebay. I usually buy parts machines when I need a new system or components for a project. In the past, I’ve been able to get parts A2 plus systems (often with a lot of extras) for around $50 plus shipping. <\/p>\n

Within the last week an A2 (not plus) system<\/a> listed as parts or repair went for $810! Granted, this system had a few desirable components – but still…<\/p>\n

An A2 plus system<\/a> also listed as parts or repair went for $183.49!<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve seen several A2 plus systems go for close to $300 lately. These were not parts systems, but it’s not long ago when that was the expected price for a non-plus system.<\/p>\n

Is this a temporary situation, or is the day of the dirt cheap, $50 A2 plus parts system, behind us?<\/p>\n

At least IIe’s are still dirt cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a trend in rising prices for A2 systems on ebay. I usually buy parts machines when I need a new system or components for a project. In the past, I’ve been able to get parts A2 plus systems … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple2","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}