Wanting to sell mine, to help pay for another computer (no, not the new model). But I am apprehensive about the timing. A quick glance at eBay, in general bids on the MP seemed a little...slow.
At least in the USA, Best buy just dumped their inventory.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1555637/
Amazon price matched. Unless the price you are selling was substantially below those, folks could be "new" (eligible for Apple care) rather than your used (and older?) model.
Second, Apple sells refurb through eBay.
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/0...-offers-better-deals-than-apple-refurb-store/
buy used or indirectly through Apple with 1 year warranty? Again unless there is substantive pricing separation it is likely to impact both supply and demand. Apple has to be siphoning off some bidding activity from other sellers on eBay.
The other issue have is that 2008 Models went on sale in March 2008.
For folks who upgrade every 4-5 years on company policy, they are also punching out this spring. Price is a factor of supply and demand. Buyers should know that more older models are coming. If they aren't in a hurry they'll hold for now, which pragmatically increases supply.
There may be some upside in the EU Markets which are cut off from "new" Mac Pro flow, but most other places the pragmatically available supply is going up.
There is has always been a ready market for the deeply discounted Mac Pro due in part to some folks who are really in the xMac market. They don't need top end performance and put far more value on form over performance function ( "It has gotta be a box with slots" ). That market is gradually growing softer because more are gong the hackintosh route than a couple years back. Similarly, what Apple offers instead of a hackintosh ( mac mini, iMac) are increasing better for the same or slightly higher price. Again new/Applecare versus no warranty... demand will suffer. Apple didn't do xMac in part because folks who wanted them could get them; just not as "new".
Finally, there is an issue of age. 2006-7 Mac Pros are technically eligible for Apple's Vintage and Obsolete harward list. OS X 10.8 doesn't run on them so defacto it isn't much different from a software perspective. Those boxes should be moving much slower now. That is becoming the "boneyard" and want to live the past crowd looking for those machines. Demand will slow.
P.S. I wouldn't count on Snow Leopard being a key selling point that has deep traction much longer. 10.8 is better than 10.7. 10.8.3 just dropped and fixed lots of bugs. The "make it look like iOS because the iOS guy "ran" the GUI direction" is gone. I fully expect 10.9 to be much closer to what most folks who grumbled about 10.7 wanted. At least the forward looking folks.
The "snow leopard is the best" is largely going to be the "I want to live in the past" crowd. For example, folks with PPC only apps that were abandoned by their developers long ago. Those folks tend to be price sensitive. "If it ain't broke don't buy anything" tends to be their mantra. They aren't going to be high activity bidders either.
