Saturn appraisal.
- Thread starter TubeRacer
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Just post it on the BST forum here, they always seem to go pretty quickly when people sell them. I think Cloud's estimate is a bit low... $30-45 is reasonable for a stock saturn with a controller, but the mod chip is worth $20 by itself, not to mention labor and the fact that it works. I'd offer it for about $60-70 personally.
lordofduct
Established Member
add 10-15 dollars for modding?
WHAT!?
chip 20 USD is cheap (racket sells them for a great price) labor... and if its country modded, my labor charge would be rather significant! That 50/60 mod aint easy, not that hard, but still you need to know what your doing. Takes time. I charge atleast 30 bones to do an XBOX just because of the time itself. And thats for friends.
WHAT!?
chip 20 USD is cheap (racket sells them for a great price) labor... and if its country modded, my labor charge would be rather significant! That 50/60 mod aint easy, not that hard, but still you need to know what your doing. Takes time. I charge atleast 30 bones to do an XBOX just because of the time itself. And thats for friends.
lordofduct
Established Member
if you know how to mod it.
a lot of people dont like risking it cause they dont have the skill to solder. Which I don't understand, its really easy to solder.
a lot of people dont like risking it cause they dont have the skill to solder. Which I don't understand, its really easy to solder.
It's not easy for morons like me, I know exactly what to do and totally understand the whole soldering process but my success rate for soldering is 3 out of 7 consoles. And taking into account that two of the successes were just GBA Afterburners that's not too good. I did put an import chip in my Dreamcast successfully, but I've killed 1 Saturn, 1 GBA and two PS2s. I don't know what it is, I'm just no good at it, and what makes it strange is I have no confidence in my skills unless there is a potential mod job to do--then I dive right into it and usually screw up. I don't know
EDIT: More on topic, in my opinion a mod-chipped Saturn should be around $90 US. I think that's fair, because while it is an easy mod, the work spent (or luck) obtaining a Saturn that can be modded also needs to be taken into account. I payed a lot (over $60 I think) for the labor only, but I got more mods done. Besides a mod-chip I got a switchless 3-region mod installed and changed the LED light to blue (which I understand isn't fun to do). He also adjusted the laser to read CD-RWs. Worth it in my opinion, because this Saturn kicks ass, and I never would have been able to do all that.
I sold a yellowed white Japanese one for $67AUD on ebay but the buyer never payed, so i re-listed and it went for $150AUD instead.
Then I bought another one in perfect (very very perfect)condition with mod for $110AUD, the funny thing is that the seller didnt know that it had a mod in it, infact neither did i till i got it home and booted a copy of Radiant Silvergun!
Then I bought another one in perfect (very very perfect)condition with mod for $110AUD, the funny thing is that the seller didnt know that it had a mod in it, infact neither did i till i got it home and booted a copy of Radiant Silvergun!
lordofduct
Established Member
heh, i aughta go into business or something then. The pawn shops around here have tons of saturns for like 20 bucks. Mod em' up and ship em' out.
Ill get back to you guys when I go buy some.
Ill get back to you guys when I go buy some.
