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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Chain on January 04, 2006, 06:15:26 AM
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Look at this A1000 for $1200 (http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8743862330) :crazy:
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Ouch!
But... it looks clean and appears to be very complete.
I bought my A1000 (just the main unit plus keyboard) in the UK for £12 from Cash Converters!
- Ali
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The real bidding endet at about 130 $.
Maybe the guy typeing in 250 $ was real too and after being outbid by the pushbidder just drove up the price.
Rest assured that the seller will never hear from the winning bidder let alone receive any money. He will just end up having to pay a lot of roalties to Ebay for nothing that's it. (Prooving that a transaction never took place is a little bit tricky if the buyer leaves a "Fast delivery, thanks" feedback)
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I guess to someone it's worth that amount but to me it seems like a waste, a 1000 isn't even that great, maybe an a4000 for $1200 lol, crazy people indeed
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Unreal! I didn't even see that auction and I search the entire categary about every other day. We'll have to see how this one goes. Although, this one (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8748910915&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1) has no monitor or software.
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the winning bidder is probably the seller himself anyway.
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@gizmo350
Shame it will be NTSC or I might have bid on a nice A1000 in that condition.
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@InTheSand
I bought my A1000 (just the main unit plus keyboard) in the UK for £12 from Cash Converters!
My nearest Cash Converters is 27 miles away, or else I would go in and try to get lucky deals like that. A nice find indeed!
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I paid 130 USD for a mint A1000 in the original box.. with a 1010 drive.
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Lemmink wrote:
The real bidding endet at about 130 $.
Yes. I would guess at about 55 bucks when all authentic bidding stopped.
You see, the other people who were bidding so aggresively afterwards had extremely low feedback numbers (one had 0 and the other had 1), which is always a sign that these users are probably the seller him/herself. Then someone bid $129. We can all assume that this was a real bid. Then the two price-raising culprits go back to work.
Look for this system to be listed again soon, probably under another name, because no one "won" it. Hell, had it been priced reasonably, I would have snagged it for myself.
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The ass stole (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8743862330#ebayphotohosting) my pic from the gallery too!! My system is nicer.... I actually have two complete A1000's that are mint. Damn $2000+ anyone? :P
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TjLaZer wrote:
The ass stole (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8743862330#ebayphotohosting) my pic from the gallery too!! My system is nicer.... I actually have two complete A1000's that are mint. Damn $2000+ anyone? :P
Yep. Posted well over a year ago:
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=740
Did you notice the bad cropping he did around the monitor?
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I got my A1000 for one fokkin dollar on ebay at december :-D
Its NTSC, but i have stepdown 240>120V converter and monitor is capable to handle NTSC signal, so im happy with it although i dont have it "BOXED"
:-D
...really well designed machine, keyboard garage is very clever spacesaving thing
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@InTheSand
It's easy to get a bargain when you shop at a store that pretty much exists to sell stolen goods.
Best keep away from a store that supports drug dealers and petty thieves indirectly by receiving stolen goods; even when they know this is the case.
No slant against you, InTheSand, just the store.
I won't go on about it, but people should know. I feel strongly about it with good reason.
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Hmmm... I'd never really considered that about Cash Converters... But now you've mentioned it, I guess there's nothing to stop people from using it to clear stolen goods...
But I wouldn't have thought that everything sold there is stolen - the store I got my A1000 from was in a quiet-ish town on the UK's south coast and unlikely to have been too dodgy.
- Ali
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The only bad thing about those shops is when you're short of cash and wanna sell something and they offer you $5 for a camcorder...
:-)
They usually ask for proof of ID and address so the drug dealers and burglars usually go to the 2nd-hand computer stores with laptops etc.
I've never seen an Amiga in a 2nd-hand shop or boot sale, their appearance is very tempting to most (particularly the A500/600/1200).
The best place to sell though is on eBay as it has the largest audience who can bid and fight for a deservedly 'worth-fighting-for' series of computers. Amibench is another place to pick up and sell a bargain.
Damnit, when was the last time an A4000t made itself visible...
:-)
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My guess would be that if the auction selling price is legit, it went that high because of the collectability of several of the books and the original OS 1.1 disks.
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The item description lists it as being IBM compatible, how so? Am I missing something in the listing?