I'm selling my DATEX OHMEDA 3900P PULSE OXIMETER

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » Tue May 08, 2007 4:40 pm

Well, I have had five months of great sleep and no horrible hangovers. I coincides with selling my house. I can't explain it, except maybe for the last few years I've been so stressed that I was having physical problems. I thought it was sleep apnea. But whatever it was, it appears to be gone. All I can say is I hope it doesn't return, and I totally appreciate the help I got from this forum.

So that's the story behind why I'm no longer needing to continue down the path of apnea. And I'm selling my oximeter.

I'm asking what I paid for it. But I managed to obtain the CD and the manual, which are really hard to find.

At any rate, if anyone wants this let me know. I just had it on ebay and it didn't sell the first time around. Here is the listing page.

Here's the listing I just placed- I dropped my price after DSM replied with noble and sage advice.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0108131666

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:50 pm

Gregg to be honest, I am not surprised it didn't sell with that as a starting price.

The unit is a very good one & very up-to-date. Ohmeda make excellent machines & this is one of them.

To get people interested you would have to start it at $200 or so but you then run the very real risk of it not reaching the $550 you want.

I suspect you are not going to get $550 but good luck.

DSM

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:12 pm

Yeah, I didn't know how to deal with that.

I guess ebay isn't the best place for something that has a questionable market.

The funny part is, when I bought it there was someone else bidding like crazy.

I'm so happy the hangovers are gone I could almost give it away.

But your feedback is helpful. I guess I'll have to review my price.

Thanks!

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:41 am

Gregg,

To help people understand what it can do,

Did you use a serial cable to download the data to a PC at all ?

If yes did you have a way of displaying the downloaded data in line charts ?

If no, how did you check a night's data & what form did this take.

Cheers Doug

Offerocker · Post by **Offerocker** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:28 am

Gregg wrote:Yeah, I didn't know how to deal with that.

I guess ebay isn't the best place for something that has a questionable market.

The funny part is, when I bought it there was someone else bidding like crazy.
Thanks!

Gregg - There are a LOT of similar items on eBay; a lot of it is just 'timing'.
I purchased my Nelcor N-395 from there, and am very happy with it; I had the calibration checked, and it was 'right on'.

You might also add the word 'cpap' into your item description, for those people who are looking for cpap equipment - then they will see it, in addition to those doing a search on 'oximeter'. - just a thought...

also, it didn't 'sound' like you'd had solid experience with it; people want to know it's in good working order, and that you can answer their questions, etc..

and GOOD LUCK!

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:52 am

The serial cable is for downloading the oximeter data to the computer. It has been months since I used it or I could recall more. I forget everything I'm not focused on, in about an hour. Makes life a bit difficult. Like what the name of the software is, and what it displays. If I remember it's sort of a less detailed O2 sat graph along with heartrate.

Thanks for the replies. It looks like dropping the price a bit made the diff. I've got a number of watchers. For what that's worth.

And now I'm off to go start another day. Also for what that's worth.