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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: on March 03, 2007, 09:50:05 PM
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Hi people,
Just letting you all know I am selling a variety of chips for Amiga 500 1000 2000 and 3000 on eBay.
See items:
160091622535
160091624141
160091626371
160091634916
160091637015
160091638848
Thanks all!
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It's always nice to provide your potential customers with something potentially clickable.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZeslapionQQhtZ-1
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Do the Buster chips not have the same general shape over all the revisions? The buster being sold here is rectanglar whereas the superbuster I just sold is a square. I wonder what matter it made for them to change the shape so dramatically.
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The Buster and SuperBuster are basically completely different chips other than they both handle bus arbitration. Even with the same form factor, they wouldn't be cross compatible. In a way, it's good that they did change the shape, it eliminates the temptation for people to try it. ;-)
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weirdami wrote:
Do the Buster chips not have the same general shape over all the revisions? The buster being sold here is rectanglar whereas the superbuster I just sold is a square. I wonder what matter it made for them to change the shape so dramatically.
I believe Super Buster is for Amiga 3000 and possibly 4000 only. Buster supports only ZorroII while super buster supports Zorro II and III and is therefore a more complex chip.
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hummm... not very popular, I sold only one of them all after 4 days...
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eslapion wrote:
hummm... not very popular, I sold only one of them all after 4 days...
My friend Orange wanna buy four CIA chips, but we have problem with moneybookers system (not really we, but THEY bstrds).
I hope we will make it until auction ends. :crazy:
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Unfortunately,
Somebody just bought all the CIAs I have.
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eslapion wrote:
hummm... not very popular, I sold only one of them all after 4 days...
I wonder if chips like that need to be sold in a group instead of individually. At least, if you want to get rid of them fast. Otherwise you end up storing things for 5 years waiting for the right person to stumble upon your adverts... like me. :cry: But, at last I'm wittling down my collection. Amiga stuff needs owners that use them, not keep them in closets. :violin:
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Hurry up people! Only 7 hours left!
I still have:
5 x 8364 Rev7 Paula 48 DIP for Amiga 500 1000 2000 3000
10 x 8362 Rev8 OCS Denise 48 DIP for Amiga 500 1000 2000
5 x 8361 rare original Agnus 48 DIP for Amiga 1000
3 x 5721 Buster 48 DIP for Amiga 2000
2 x 5719 Gary 48 DIP for Amiga 500 2000
Considering the very low price at which I offered them, if they don't sell then I will trash them.
See: http://search.ebay.ca/_W0QQsassZeslapionQQhtZ-1QQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQrdZ0
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I'm tired of hearing the "they're going to the trash" excuse.
If you want to sell something quick, you lower the price or make a more attractive package, you don't "force" the sale with such words.
If you were going to trash them, you would have done it anyways; certainly much easier than trying your luck on eBay.
But even if they don't sell and you want to get rid of them, there's an easier way still (and one every TRUE Amigan would chose, because you know full well you can't throw away something sacred :-D ): you'd pass them on. Basically you ask in the forum and I'm sure someone will pay the shipping charges for you to send them to him/her.
Bet it won't happen though.
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I would be interested in some of these ICs for a lower price or if you make a bundle package price with a lower cost/IC.
:-)
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da9000 wrote:
I'm tired of hearing the "they're going to the trash" excuse.
If you want to sell something quick, you lower the price or make a more attractive package, you don't "force" the sale with such words.
If you were going to trash them, you would have done it anyways; certainly much easier than trying your luck on eBay.
But even if they don't sell and you want to get rid of them, there's an easier way still (and one every TRUE Amigan would chose, because you know full well you can't throw away something sacred :-D ): you'd pass them on. Basically you ask in the forum and I'm sure someone will pay the shipping charges for you to send them to him/her.
Bet it won't happen though.
Well, that's easy for you to say...
It's not you who the trouble of sorting, individually testing and storing these chips...
FYI: All these chips have been discontinued since 1994.
Or maybe I should do like these obsolete semiconductors clearing houses... minimum order 250$ / no individuals orders accepted.
Not a single chip I advertised was priced above 10$.
You'll pay for what these things are worth or you forget them. That's it.
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eslapion wrote:
You'll pay for what these things are worth or you forget them. That's it.
They're worth what people will pay for them.
IMHO, if you can't sell them you should at least offer them to people for the cost of shipping before trashing them, at least that way they aren't wasted (and they don't sit taking up space in a landfill somewhere - think of the environment :-D )
That said, I can understand that it could be a pain taking them for posting, unless you can post them all en masse at the same time.
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YES it really irritates the CRAP of out me when people say they will trash it if it does not sell. If you do that you are a moron!
How about this idea: I know groundbreaking idea. If it does not sell, offer it for FREE to someone and have them pay for shipping! What a concept I know, I should get an award!!
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Ok well,
3 weeks ago I was DONATED enough Amiga equipment to fill a minivan. All of it working. I happened to get all this stuff because a good friend of mine fixed Amigas for more than a decade. He is having health problems and wanted to sell all the stuff but he said it was too much trouble and people just didn't want to pay what it was worth.
At first, he wanted me to help him sending all this stuff to the landfill.
I offered to take it all and I believed he was a bit exagerating. Boy was I wrong. Tha Amiga community can be very cruel.
After having been ripped off by a german ditributor, being sold an A3000 that was supposed to contain 64MB of RAM but really had 4MB in it and now being insulted for asking about 1/4 what stores ask for, I think it is time I post a picture on this board.
I am going to invest energy and time making good of this Amiga stuff ONLY it is will at least pay for my lunch.
I have no time and no room for this stuff anymore.
BTW, I am being told I charge too much but no here comes this Kurtz guy who charges 99$ for a little piece of electronics that not worth 15$ and everybody's jumping on it...
With attitudes like that, you shouldn't ask yourself why you end up with people selling you crappy MoBos.
In exactly ONE week I will take all the AMiga stuff I can't keep any more and I will put it in a place in Montreal where you will have about one day before the trashmen pick them up. I will tell you exactly where it is located.
Once on the street, all these items are FREE for anyone to grab.
I will NOT test them, ship them, package them or any otherwise.
Like it better like that?
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TjLaZer wrote:
YES it really irritates the CRAP of out me when people say they will trash it if it does not sell. If you do that you are a moron!
How about this idea: I know groundbreaking idea. If it does not sell, offer it for FREE to someone and have them pay for shipping! What a concept I know, I should get an award!!
Be irritated...
I am a volunteer worker and I will take the time to carefully check, package and mail something for somebody with no salary at all for my time and work.
Yeaaaaaaah right...
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Be irritated...
I am a volunteer worker and I will take the time to carefully check, package and mail something for somebody with no salary at all for my time and work.
Yeaaaaaaah right...
OK so what you are saying is you would rather throw it away than give it to a fellow Amigan? That is messed up!!!
Nobody said to do all that for free, but to offer it for free to someone instead of throwing it away! (IF IT DOES NOT SELL AS YOU THREATENED) Was that hard to comprehend?!!!? While it is your perogotive to do what the hell you want, when it comes to Vintage Amiga stuff NOTHING should be throw away just because you did not take someone to the bank selling it on ebay... (Even Atari stuff!!!! LOL)
Sorry all it just pisses me off with that kind of mentality. If you are that kind of person to throw something away just because you did not make $1000 on ripBay. then I feel sorry for you. I am sure most people feel the same way I do.
/off soap box
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Let me first say that I agree with what TjLaZer is saying.
Second,
@eslapion:
I didn't direct the comment at your prices or anything like that. In fact I never saw your items (well, until that fellow posted a link, and he made a good point, read it). Going further, I wasn't passing judgement on yours prices, and by the time I saw the link the items were gone (good for you!), but I'd say that if you were asking $10 a chip, it's not so bad (depending on the chip and shipping of course).
What I was saying is the irritation that comes with the false THREATS that I commonly see everywhere, here, on eBay, but also Craigslist: "they're going to the trash tonight if you don't come (when I want you to, and how I want you to <- never said, but implied)", "I'm putting it out at 8am, trash pickup at 8:30am (have fun suckers <- never said, but implied)", "they're by the front yard, but hurry, rain forecast for this afternoon (bring an umbrella suckers<- never said but implied)" etc
It's people playing with someone else's "pain" or "suffering", because if someone is in need (or a die hard Amigan who cannot see an Amiga item being trashed), he'll go through a lot of hoops to get that item. And that's what these threats are "praying upon": let's see how FAR X person in need, desperation, or Amiga-fanatic, will go through for Y item. It's not cool. It's similar to what the Romans did at the Colloseum: let's see how long people (Christians and others, gotta have variety, right?) will last against hungry lions and tigers.
There's a name for such people: TYRANTS.
So, like TjLaZer says: you do what the hell you want with the items, they are yours afterall, but be conscious of two things: 1) it doesn't make it right, or your a virtuous person, to trash it JUST because you have no need or plenty or you got bored, etc (especially with vintage/rare and Amiga stuff, but that is what you'll have, hopefully, nightmares about every single day afterwards), but MOST importantly 2) don't FORCE or threaten people just because you want to trash them; just DO IT and shut up. Don't talk about it. Why do you have to rub it in? How would someone, you perhaps, like to be in a situation (I know, not the best example, but I feel obligated to make people, that think think this way, understand) where they need drug X, because they're sick, but I'm too bothered to even send it for the cost of shipping, because I'm grouchy or angry for not having anyone buy it from me, and I decide to not only empty the bottle in the sink, but also write them an email TELLING them I did that. Isn't that ... err, REVENGE of sorts?
/[rant finished:YES];
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If you can't test things, just sell them "as-is". And say "I don't have the time to test all these items, so I'm selling them as-is".
I've had stuff I've saved from being tossed in the garbage for years and years and I keep lugging them around waiting for people to buy them because I don't like Amiga stuff just being thrown away. Don't throw things away just because people on here gave you a hard time. :-( I think most things people on here have offered for free or for just shipping have been snapped up pretty quick. If I was near you, I'd drive over and pick up everything you have, but I'm not even in the same country. There's gotta be someone in Montreal that likes Amiga's. Do a craigslist post.
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Oh, there's TONS of people in Montreal who love Amigas! When I visited Montreal a while ago for some demo-party, there were a ton of Amiga fans, and much more hardcore than any around here. Canadians know their Amigas, that's for sure. Just as an example: the X-Calibur 040 accelerator was made in Canada (although to be honest I don't know which side of the country)
Cheers
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Just my US$.02, because everyone's entitled to my opinion.
At the very least, I posted hard drives of various capacities here. All I asked was shipping. No bites. They were tested and formatted on an Amiga 4000, even. I expected a much bigger response than what I got considering the audience.
So they went to hazardous waste recycling.
I walk around the local flea market every so often. I find things like last week: a TI-99/4 RF modulator and CS2 cable. But I realize that the rest of the pile is stuff that should have been thrown out, probably these as well. But these people didn't throw them out because "someone could use it" or "all it needs is a couple of $components." I cannot afford unlimited storage space for old stuff just because someone MIGHT be able to use it in the next decade.
I have to agree that sometimes, one shot deals are all there are. People who have stuff should not be expected to hang onto it until people who do not have stuff decide they need it or finally have the money to buy it.
[EDIT:] Also from my perspective, there are a lot of people who are more apt to take an offer seriously if they know that the items will definitely be discarded if not taken. In any case, it will be "damned if you do, damned if you don't" -- I specifically state that items I am GIVING away will be thrown out if no one wants them, or I just do so quietly and reveal this fact months later when someone asks, I am just as much a jerk either way.
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ok, so we pay for shipping plus a bit for your time to pack and post. what type of stuff are we talking about here?
i assume you're keeping your Vic-20? ;-)
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@LoadWB:
I understand your point very well (I've been there too), and it's only too logical. The owner is the owner after all.
But there's a fine distinction about what some of us are saying. Let me make it clear:
If you have X items, rare, uber-rare, and Amiga too, and you post them someplace, for free, or pickup, with your terms, REASONABLE terms:
"hey guys, I have X items, and I must have them out of here by Y date, so if anyone is interested, please call 123-456-6789 or email here@stuff.org"
and then NOBODY comes within the aloted time, or they're all a bunch of flakes and then you decide to throw them out because they're yours after all AND that was your intention from the beginning (<- VERY important distinction) and then a week later I call you and ask you:
"hey LoadWB, have you got those X items from last week"
and you simply reply:
"Sorry dude, nobody showed up and they sadly had to go"
then believe me: you are NOT damned or a jerk. You're a man of your word, who offered a great opportunity which wasn't taken up. Sad, but honest and true.
I believe that anyone in their right mind would see you in the same way. People who're somewhat fscked and think you OWE THEM will be offended or what not, but then again, they're unrealistic (idiots).
The first is true even for me, a die-hard Amiga fan, even if those items were Amiga items that you threw away. I would never call you a jerk or get offended. Of course from my point of view, and to myself, you would not be a true Amigan and maybe even a shameful Amigan, if you did throw them out, BUT that still does NOT make you a jerk or damned because (and here comes the distinction) you did it out of NECESSITY (wife, garage-full, new baby, whatever the reasons, they are yours and most likely honest, because why else would you give stuff for free?)! But this is a whole other issue (me thinking you're not a true Amigan), and it's my personal opinion which would be in my head for 5-10 minutes and then gone, never to be shared with anyone on a.org or anyplace else (unless you threw out an AAA chipset dev. board or something :)
But notice how this case differs ever so slightly from those who are purposefully tyranical.
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If I lived in montreal I know where I'd be on friday :-D
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Hahaha!
Do you mean e's place (Amiga stuff) or the streets? (at least last time I was there, the cabbie was asking us if we wanted some, and then we realized he was pointing at some hot biatches in the street; apparently prostitution was/is quite legal and 'in your face' in montreal ;-) )
All in all a very cool city. Very lively (European style) indeed!