Testing Equipment

One of my customers is a hardware developer who gave me boxes of old cool testing equipment. One particular piece is for cell phone testing (Lauterbach Trace 32 In-Circuit Debugger). After some quick ebay searches I found that this type of equipment sells for around $1000+. but, no one has ever purchased one on ebay. My question to you is where else could we take this equipment?


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Then lists for x amount of dollars would be more fitting in this case. Tons of stuff on Ebay that doesn't sell so be sure and check for Green numbers under Completed Listings. Definitely worth doing some homework if value is even a quarter of list price.

Jeremiah,
I looked on ebay at the test equipment name you listed in your post. I see crazy prices and no sales so it would be difficult to assess value here. This is my .02 on ebay and how it can be a real asset to a scrapper if used.
Example. I have a widget and want to sell it, I might search current and closed auctions to see if the widget I have is worth my time and effort. If there are a lot of active auctions with the identical widget for sale I may wait and check later. Most of the time I will just list and let happen what happens. Almost everything I have sold I have no to very little invested. I start everything I sell at 4.99 (saves on listing fees). If a lot of the same widgets sold and higher than my 4.99 start price I will list and see what happens.
If there are a lot of unsold widgets I look at the completed auctions and scroll through the page looking for a hit counter if the hit count is low (under 30-40), I may decide to forget and move on. If the hit count is higher on unsold items then I look at opening bid price. Sometimes sellers think that this is what the item is worth and that is what their opening bid is.
I check hit counts on some of the Lauterbach items, some were over 200, one I looked at had over 1,500 hits. Means people are looking but because of the high opening prices not buying.
If I may make a suggestion. You have no $ invested in this stuff other than your time. List one or more of the items with a starting bid of under $10.00 and wait and see what crazy things might happen. You can log into you’re my ebay and also see how many people have saved and are watching your item. The more watchers, likely more bidders. Have patience with the bidding, I have seen little activity on some of my auctions then whammo last day and even last few minutes can get crazy.
I also see a lot of auctions with misspelled words , always check if your not sure. If there is a word that commonly gets misspelled use it in your title with the correct spelling and make sure you do not run words together. Makes it difficult for buyers to find keywords in searches. Symbols like these @ /(), : ; in your title listing will not help buyers find anything. I just leave them out.
Sorry about the rambling, long post, I hope this may help you and others.

I would guess its a limited market so even though it might sell it might not show up as a recent sale. I don't think there is a way to go very far back in the completed sales on ebay. If there is I would be very interested.

Do some further research, perhaps a forum of cell phone repair techs. If you got it for free or cheap put it up for a lot less than others. If it sells then smile. Worst case there are probably some good boards to scrap, Mike.