hgcsales on ebay.....

[McVenco]

Notice how clean this Atari 1040STe is.  I always washed my hands before using this computer.

Yeah. But God knows how dirty his hands were after he finished using this computer....

[McVenco]

I see Doomy has an ad on Craig's list too for the same 4000 that is on Ebay.

LINK

Hmmm, let's see what he's selling then:

"2 floppy disk drives"
No HD-drives, that's for sure...

"Other Amiga programs were also installed"
LhA and muchmore? Pretty much nothing saying...

"The 68040 / 25 MHz board appears to be in great shape"
Appears? Nuff said.

" I examined it under 7X magnification and all of the capacitors looked good, no leaks"
So the caps are good. How about all those other thingies that sit on the board?

"You will not find another Amiga 4000 that is in better shape then this one."
*looks at desk* Ehm, there's 2 over here :-)

[McVenco]

Doomy wrote:

I am on eBay every day and I watch and keep a record of what Amiga and Atari ST items sell for.  Anotherwards, I do my homework before I list an item.  What makes my Amiga 4000 worth at least $500 is its new condition.  If I still had the original box for it, the computer would sell for over $1000.00.  It is the condition of an item that drives its value up.  So, the closer an item is to new condition, the more valuable it is.  And this is what you NOOBS seem to forget.  Or are you just one of those assholes that try to get nice things for nothing.

I don't know which version of Ebay Doomy visits, but I've bought a completely white A4000 with some expansions (genlock, framegrabber) for $275 a few months ago on. The seller stated it as worldwide shipping, so Doomy should have been able to see it on US Ebay. There have been a few A4000s on Ebay from another Dutch seller, who sold them fo €350 (around $480). These machines came better expanded than Doomy's A4000 (3.1 roms, multiple GB harddisk, workbench disks, HD drives, DVD drive), and still he had to re-list them a few times before they even were sold.

@Doomy: get your figures straight. It's the market (multiple buyers and sellers) that defines the prices of goods, not just a single seller. And the market has declared a lot of times that a stock (and probably partially undressed) A4000, is NOT worth AT LEAST 500 bucks. It may get $500 MAXIMUM (not minimum). And an extra $500 for the original box? No way José.

But then again, Doomy is schooled in mechanics. Not economics :-)