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Hi Leon - I owned a CPC800 until I sold it last year. They are such beautiful scopes and (in my opinion) tick pretty much all the boxes for visual and eaa astronomy. It is by far the best of the alt-az celestron scopes, and arguably better than the Meade LX200 due to compatibility with Hyperstar, StarSense. Just bear in mind that this is the non-edge version, so would be inferior optics to the edge or ACF versions.
I honestly don't think the age is a problem, as the only 2 changes Celestron made to them I'm aware of is providing the Farstar compatible secondary and the Nexstar+ hc. The scope you have already has both of these. So if the optics are in good condition (no damage or mould/fungus), and the mechanics are still good, tracking well and not making weird noises, I would say it's almost indistinguishable from a newer unit.
Having said all of this, they don't look as 'fancy' as some other scopes, and the size of them can scare some people off. The market often makes its decisions on what to purchase based this kind of stuff, and I've noticed that these cpc's sometimes are a bit difficult to move.
My one I sold from memory around the $2500 mark, but it was much older than yours and didn't have the upgrades I mentioned above. I've seen them go cheaper than that, but I reckon a reasonable price is between $2500-$3500. It all comes down to who wants to purchase it at the time.
Hope some of that helps
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