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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Staticman on April 30, 2003, 04:28:46 PM
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hello after much thought i have decided that the amigaone is not for me. no os4, and i dont really need such a high end amiga. call me stupid, call it ridiculous either way my mind is made up. anyone intersted, it is advertised on amiga.org classified or you can pm me. it is approx 4 months old, and has hardly been used which is a shame as they are high in demand.. anyone interested in giving it a good home get in touch! thanks.
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ill give you 100 pound for it :-D
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pffft.....grrrr :-o
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Did you redeem the coupon, and is it transferrable?
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I'll give an amiga $50 coupon for it.
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i expect is just the g3 so 150 pound then. Im still waiting for my g4.
:-o
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Swap for a Celeron 300A @ 450MHz? :-)
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neeschk!
any SERIOUS offers!?!?!?!?!
or am i stuck with it forever and ever - or lose about £500 on the whole thing?
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Yup, god's punishment for buying an unfinished product ;-).
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I would say that Staticman is doing his life biggest mistake...We would regret it later..
Staticman, you never know how powerful the new OS4 will be, and AmigaOne is definitely the future...
At the end, it's up to you..
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When AmigaOS4 ever will be released, then there will be for shure a faster and cheaper PPC available. So I will wait till it's ready.
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You might want to try putting an ad up on http://www.amibench.org/ (http://www.amibench.org/) or even on the classifieds (http://amiga.org/forums/classifieds.php) here on amiga.org.
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Only available to UK Resisdents only?
Staticman wrote:
hello after much thought i have decided that the amigaone is not for me. no os4, and i dont really need such a high end amiga. call me stupid, call it ridiculous either way my mind is made up. anyone intersted, it is advertised on amiga.org classified or you can pm me. it is approx 4 months old, and has hardly been used which is a shame as they are high in demand.. anyone interested in giving it a good home get in touch! thanks.
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if you did not need it why spend 500 pound on it if you get know one that wants it ill give 160 pound including postage.
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The option of selling it to a Linux coder who wants to set up their own distro for PPC?
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T_Bone wrote:
Did you redeem the coupon, and is it transferrable?
(strange, my second post disappeared!)
I'm serious, is the coupon transferrable? How would one go about getting the OS when the time comes... is the "OS Pending shipment" registry transferrable?
Maybe I should put it to the "Ask Fleecy!" list.
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or am i stuck with it forever and ever - or lose about £500 on the whole thing?
Why not sell it to Helgis75?
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Staticman stated:
hello after much thought i have decided that the amigaone is not for me.
:-? Are you a Club Amiga member?
;-) If so, take a look at Amiga's Club Newletter (http://os.amiga.com/cam/). Especially page six.
:-D If not, I'll make an offer....
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ok it seems i have made a big mistake. £160. give me a break. it has cost me well over £800 i have never used it, it is 4 months old. half price would be a complete rip. i'm not asking for full price but something half decent - somewhere around £700 would be sensible, as the whole thing has probably cost me £900 - thats £200 lost. you work it out
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It is second hand, plain and simple.
£700 is way OTT for seconds.
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hmm, everybody has been moaning about lack of A1's from eyetech or whereever, and now that you got one in your lap ready to go, nobody wants it? :-? :-?
i don't get it.
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Is it an XE? I'll give you $299USD. If it's an SE, I'm not interested.
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HELGIS75 WILL BUY STATICMAN'S AMIGAONE
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Selling such a machine 2nd hand will be too expensive for most people. I suggest you keep it for a while until OS 4 comes out and then judge for yourself what you want to do with it.
You can also put it on Ebay with a minimum selling price of 650 euro ...
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Staticman wrote:
ok it seems i have made a big mistake. £160. give me a break. it has cost me well over £800 i have never used it, it is 4 months old. half price would be a complete rip. i'm not asking for full price but something half decent - somewhere around £700 would be sensible, as the whole thing has probably cost me £900 - thats £200 lost. you work it out
Is this just Motherboard or a system??
Loki :-?
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I don't know anyone who ever got a good deal selling a used computer. Sorry, but that's the way the market works. Hell, I usually just give my stuff away to family members or something. It's not even worth the time to sell it.
The AmigaOne is a hobby machine, anyway. I'd definately keep it, if only as a collector's item.
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i cant believe this...
new slogan "if you want to waste money - buy an amiga and try selling it again the next day"
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@Staticman,
Don't blame the community for your impulse purchase.
In case you haven't noticed, most people here (or on other sites) are in "wait and see (+bitching) mode" or have bought a Pegasos + Mos by now..
And like some said before, the minute you buy/unpack any product it, be it a computer, a telephone a bike, it's second hand and looses 50% or more in value..
If you really want to sell your A-one wait untill OS4 is released (Or who nows ? Mos for A-one), as of now, the A-one is only for hardcore believers or linux users (And those allready preordered). When OS4 is released you may get a better bargain. (And indeed, when OS4 is out, put it on Ebay, let people bid on it)
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@Staticman
It's an AOne-SE, is it not? Most of the people interested either
already have one or has ordered an AOne-XE. Wait a little until
systems are being used more widely before selling. Then you
might get a decent prize. You cannot expect a second-hand
market to emerge before the system is actually fully released...
Traditionally the Amiga second-hand value has been rather
good. Time will tell.
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SlimJim
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"new slogan "if you want to waste money - buy an amiga and try selling it again the next day" "
Staticman, it happens with anything you buy, not only Amiga. You can try it with a PC, if you don't believe me...
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I have no money, and besides, think of it as a slap for being impatient after what? 10 years?
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"new slogan "if you want to waste money - buy an amiga and try selling it again the next day" "
Staticman, it happens with anything you buy, not only Amiga. You can try it with a PC, if you don't believe me...
Absolutely.... In fact, the only thing I can think of that this doesn't happen with might be a house. You can usually resell it quickly for about what you have in it. Anything else is a very hefty loss. And consumer/luxury goods (like a hobby computer) are the worst.
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Hi,
Will you take a 200 MHZ Packard Bell, Amiga 500 and $50.00. Remember this is a second hand unit and beside that who really want to buy a dead computer. My gosh do you really expect big bucks for a computer that comes with a free down loadable OS, or no OS. Who suckered you into buying that thing. HMMMM I just might have to keep the Pack Bell at least it has an OS (Winblows 95).
Smerf
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Staticman wrote:
i cant believe this...
new slogan "if you want to waste money - buy an amiga and try selling it again the next day"
Fair cop - you spent money and you were burnt.
But it's in the buying you were burnt - not because people won't buy it off you for the price you are asking (700 pounds).
In order to sell it you'll have to set a realistic price based on what the technology is worth today, not what you paid for it yesterday.
A quick look on Eyetechs site can give us some (hopefully current) figures:
AmigaOneG3-SE G3 750CXe@600MHz 360.00 UKP - 580.00 Euro
Thats a far cry from 700 UKP!
Especially when:
AmigaOne-XE G4 7451@800MHz 500.00 UKP 800.00 Euro
So what value would I be getting for the additional 340 UKP I'd be paying?
It's a serious question - I am led to believe that the eyetech price won't include ram, case, or other accesories (although these are hardly expensive nowadays).
So what additional value do I get for my purchase? Because it looks like most of the offers here could be held as legitimate.
Siggy.
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Helgis75 wrote:
I would say that Staticman is doing his life biggest mistake...We would regret it later..
If that would be the greatest mistake in a lifetime, then he should consider himself lucky :-)
Staticman, you never know how powerful the new OS4 will be
Isnt that exacly the problem... we never know anything about OS4 do we? :-D
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Dont touch 200Mhz Packard Bells, they have a tendancy to fry keyboards and mice.
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Staticman, you never know how powerful the new OS4 will be
Isnt that exacly the problem... we never know anything about OS4 do we? :-D
We have a feature list. For some it's enough. For some still would like to see it first. That makes the difference in this community :-)
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@ staticman
your new slogan should read "if you want to waste money - buy ANYTHING electronic and try selling it again the next day"
If I were you I'd try to get some use out of it, you'll probably get a better second-hand price in six months' time.
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As I sit here typing this on my AmigaOne*, I wonder why anyone would want to get rid of an AmigaOne so soon after buying it.
It's quite possible that Staticman has had a few issues with it and hasn't been looking for help in the right places.
If that's the case Staticman, let me know and I'll be happy to do what I can for you. Trust me when I say you'll regret it later if you get rid of the AmigaOne now...
Regards,
Yttrium Oxide
AKA Ben de Waal.
* (well, to be completely accurate, I sit here typing this on my Windows box running an X-Server connected to my AmigaOne and running Mozilla off it (purely for the fact that my Windows box has a wireless keyboard and I can lie back in bed and type and Mozilla was less clicks of the mouse to load than running IE locally))
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Its a system. I think this is the poster called "Mike" in the classifieds ( hardware ).
If not a system Id be Mr Cynical and say that if you didn't want to sell something you owned but wanted to make a point price yourself out of the market ;-)
Seriously though others have good advice here, wait a few months and you'll get a buyer. In fact the key is to wait for the thing you don't want to wait for - AOS4 - that will make the kit very desirable.
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Absolutely.... In fact, the only thing I can think of that this doesn't happen with might be a house.
Technics SL1210 turntables don't lose value either. Second hand they cost more or less the same as brand new, as they are so well made, they are virtually indistructable. I sold my pair for £600 last year, you can buy them brand new for £645
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mdma wrote:
Absolutely.... In fact, the only thing I can think of that this doesn't happen with might be a house.
20-odd year old Mini Cooper - Red with the white roof a la the Italian Job ?
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..I have quite similar experience, 3 years ago I`ve bought an old A4000k desktop "system" second hand for about 500 pounds... it was working for a week or so, then it definitely crashed... ==>> don`t buy anything while using amphetamines... ;-))))))) ..shit experience, but good for the future..
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mdma wrote:
Absolutely.... In fact, the only thing I can think of that this doesn't happen with might be a house.
Technics SL1210 turntables don't lose value either. Second hand they cost more or less the same as brand new, as they are so well made, they are virtually indistructable. I sold my pair for £600 last year, you can buy them brand new for £645
Yep, that's true. I was recently offered £550 for mine. Not selling though. :-P
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Yep, that's true. I was recently offered £550 for mine. Not selling though.
I don't blame you. I really miss mine. I'm gonna get two silver 1200's from sapphires in n.london for £700 with a mixer and phones when i sort my finances out.
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20-odd year old Mini Cooper - Red with the white roof a la the Italian Job ?
Ah yes, but there are lots of things you can buy and hold for 20 years (provided you keep in mint condition) and sell for equal or profit... There's a lot less things you can buy and keep for 20 days and expect to come out near even.
Evidently that consists of houses and high-end turntables. ;-)
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The issue is more that the system is the G3, discontinued model than anything. Those have little value, as they were replaced with a G4 fairly recently. The closest comparison is to the Pegasos, with it's G3, but the Pegasos has more features, so that means need to deduct the missing components from the price....
500 brittish sterling frankly is too much for such a setup. Even $500 USD would be asking too much.
Sorry guy, I wish you luck in pawning that white elephant off on someone. You will need it.
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500USD is a ripoff for that thing... pathetic little motherboard to run Linux on... I wouldnt buy it... not for 200$ let alone 500... if I wanted to run Linux I'd get a PC frig the WaffleOne for Linux...