What's a used C400 worth?

[Mercutio]

Customer of mine has a Dell Latitude C400.
He's had it 3 years and it's NEVER been out of its dock. 3lb. laptop used as a desktop. It's cosmetically perfect.

It's a 1.2GHz P3 system, 256MB RAM, 30GB hard drive. And it weighs 3lbs.

The guy can't find the CD-RW or floppy drive it came with. No idea what the battery will do.

I think it's worth about $225 as is, but I'm not the one who is planning to sell it. My thought is that the optical and floppy are probably worth about $75, together, and the "complete" unit + docking station is probably worth about $300.

Does "cosmetically perfect" make up for not having any removable storage?

 

[sechs]

I think that it would only make you feel better about the purchase, but suspicious of what the person was doing to it.

I'd suggest that it's worth a little less that you think. How was this person planning on selling?

 

[Mercutio]

I think he's going to try to peddle it to one of his other contractors or employees. He really isn't savvy enough to sell it on ebay.

 

[Handruin]

I've seen (and know of) Compaq's for as little as $399-$449 with more recent hardware such as a sempron and 256MB DDR... I don't think it's worth $225...but that's just my opinion. I'd offer somewhere in the ballpark of $125 - $150 for something that slow (sans docking station).