I need help identifying a saw from a picture of a box.

[SettleThePuck]

Can anyone tell what saw this is from this pic in add?

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/tls/1877096792.html

[Black wallnut]

bt3100 for sure

[LCHIEN]

yup.........
the pic is what the BT3100 looked like and the "precison woodcutting system" was what they called the BT3s.

[SettleThePuck]

The guy wants to sell it to me for $200, new in the box. Is this a deal, normal price, or or a rip off?

[Black wallnut]

At the tail end of the sales of this saw with closeout pricing many sold for $199. Given the condition of the box I'd hesitate to pay his price sight unseen. If he allows you to completly unpack and inspect then $200 might be fair although I'd offer less. Sight unseen I'd offer $50 due to extensive packaging damage.

[Woody]

Definitely a BT3100. I'd offer him $125. You can at least get him down to $150 I would think. I doubt he has many people knocking his door down for it.

[LCHIEN]

strictly on value, i would say that $150 would be a good price for a saw of the BT3100's caliber. You could not find another new saw that had its capabilities and versatility for anywhere near that price.
Depending upon how badly you wanted one, even $175 would be a good price, considering its basically new and unused but w/o warranty.

Just a few percent of the BT3 saws sold were at clearance pricing near $200. Still considering its been out of production for 4 years now and he cearly has no use for this saw, and might not be aware of it's popularity, you could haggle the guy down, certainly $125 would be a good opening counter.

[Chris_B]

+1 on starting around $125 for a counter-offer. In my experience, somewhere around half-off retail is usually a reasonable final resting place for like-new equipment on CL.

FYI, here in the SF Bay Area (not known for low prices - on anything...) a virtually new BT3100 clone *with* mobile stand recently sold for only $50. See this thread.

Good luck!