Interesting find. Seem to recall rumours of hardware going missing under Petro's watch. 14 years later Petro has 1500@ 150 euro = 225,000 euro's worth of Amiga hardware to sell out of the blue. Possibly the most sales of any single Amiga re-seller or developer in the past decade.
Is this legit? Is it morally ok to hide some Amigas when a company is dying then later sell them.
I think it's interesting when people tries to argue from a moral high ground point based on loose accusations, very similar to propaganda, coming from those very people responsible for assigning the Amiga brand the to lies, scams, deceit and general foul play (yes, that's the "Amiga brand values" today, thanks to Amiga Inc, Hyperion and Eyetech, and their likes).
And no, Petro obviously didn't keep "a hidden stash of Amigas", he sold them to some Indian entity towards the end of "Amiga Technologies", and now it seems like a great deal of them never came to use and remain unsold by that Indian entity, and now Petro has contacted that old customer and put an offer on those machines that clearly *never* will be sold by that Indian company in 2012 (meaning: from that Indian entity's point of view, that worthless pile of junk occupying floor space in some warehouse suddenly got a small value).
hmm who ever originally purchased the stock must be making a big loss... back in the day new a1200 surely would have costed more than 150 Euro to purchase wholesale? unless Saint Petro did the biggest accounting mistake on purpose.. freeebie!!
Today, these Amigas has *zero* value to anyone else but you people reading this thread (Amiga classic enthusiasts). They are utterly *unsalable* to anyone else but you, but to you they have some value! It seems to me that Petro is simply acting as a middle-man, a reseller, using both his connections to the Amiga community as well as his connection to that old Indian customer, and he is probably doing a nice little profit by connecting the dots in between. As long as you (the customers), the Indian entity (the seller) and Petro himself (the middle-man) are happy about this arrangement, then *everyone* will be winners in this arrangement!
