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Originally Posted by jwh1192  these cards are still worth close to 5 grand ... used ... |
Apparently not, or somebody will pay you $5K for it. If it's worth that much, the $3K systems will be grabbed up, some time will pass while buyers recalibrate their expectations, and then it'll sell for what you think it's worth.
The value is strongly affected by how motivated the sellers are--if everybody needs to dump their PT systems in order to have food on the table, they're worth less.
Disruptive technologies (like the MacPro/Symphony combo) are going to cause steep drops in value--this is the two-edged sword of technology. It's great on the buying side, and sucks on the selling side.
My condolences; I hope you get a good price for your gear. The question you have to ask yourself is whether this is a localized price drop or a market-wide one. If it's the latter, you probably don't want to hold out too long waiting for someone to pay you what you want for this stuff. If it were me, I'd sniff around and get whatever price data is out there (eBay, ads, whatever) and give it a few weeks and see what happens.
On the other hand, maybe something is going to be announced at AES tomorrow that will cut the legs out from under the price even more. You never know...