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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: amigadave on November 02, 2005, 05:09:39 PM
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I am dying to bid on this clean looking A3000T (http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-Amiga-3000-Tower-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ8714585566QQcategoryZ4598QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem), but dare not because I think I know who the seller is and would not trust him as far as my daughter could throw him.
I hope the bidders (who also frequent here) know who they are dealing with. :getmad:
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yea we were talkin about it in this thread
lies lies lies (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18399)
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Yeah I too was checking out that auction, unfortunately once the page loaded I knew who's auction it was... too bad.
I went and bought a 3000 from a complete stranger, who oddly, I trusted more ;-)
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I like the way he says he offers a refund if unhappy, but at the very bottom of the page it states that refund is offered as merchandise credit. :-D
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I might be mistaken but those floppy disk drives.. look "empty" ?
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seer wrote:
I might be mistaken but those floppy disk drives.. look "empty" ?
Yes it looks like there are no floppy drives included, just the faceplates. Also I can't see a CPU card. And, looking at the fouth picture (http://home.comcast.net/~mikelafayette/A3000Tpic4.jpg), looks like the kickstart ROMs have been removed?
Ended at just over $200 - a very good price for an A3000T (if it was complete and working).
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Yes, unfortinately, Doomy strips all items that he can to resell or use, and offers the rest. Sadly he does not tell people so you have to do as he says, and LOOK AT THE PICTURES! LOL I am sure the buyer is not going to be happy when he plugs it in and turns it on!
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Lando wrote:
seer wrote:
I might be mistaken but those floppy disk drives.. look "empty" ?
Yes it looks like there are no floppy drives included, just the faceplates. Also I can't see a CPU card. And, looking at the fouth picture (http://home.comcast.net/~mikelafayette/A3000Tpic4.jpg), looks like the kickstart ROMs have been removed?
Ended at just over $200 - a very good price for an A3000T (if it was complete and working).
The A3000D and A3000T floppy spaces did not have face plates, they are part of the front of the case that cannot be removed. There are covers to hide the floppy drive access holes in the front cover of the computer when no floppy is installed. Kind of cool looking, I wish the A3000+ with AGA had been put into mass production, I would prefer it to the A4000. The one thing I agree with Doomy about is that I think the A3000T is the most rare and sought after Amiga model. I need another Amiga like a bullet hole to my head, but I still want one and would gladly trade a towerized A4000D for one. I don't think it is worth $850 to $1200 USD, but if in good working condition, clean and not stripped of cards and floppies, it is worth more than $200.
Commodore was on the ropes and trying to cut costs as much as they could when they produced the A4000, as such it received many poor reviews when first released IIRC, as it was too little too late to save the Amiga and Commodore from going bankrupt (and yes, I do know that it was not the Amiga that was the cause of Commodore going bankrupt, it was mismanagement and losing money on their PC sales, where they could not compete)