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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: redrumloa on June 20, 2006, 02:36:30 AM
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A couple boxes worth of Amiga stuff, unsellable on eBay, just hit the dumpster :-( Most of it was listed multiple times on eBay with low (see $0.01) starting bids, honest shipping and no reserves. No takers. After losing money and time on the postings, I've come to throw it. It's a shame, but we're relocating and this stuff just has no home.
It's a crying shame when you can't give Amiga stuff away any longer :-(
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I guarantee if you lived down the road from me, you wouldn't have to throw any Amiga stuff away :)
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did you post a freebie thread here first before turfing them? Sometimes ebay isn't the best route.
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I had posted links to the $0.01 auctions IIRC. I didn't post an all one shot freebie this time though. I have done that in the past, but I didn't hink of it until tonight, and I rwally don't have the timeframe ATM. Must be moved in a few days...
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Why share such depressing stories? Misery loves company? :-)
To bad I don't do IIRC and rarly search ebay for Amiga. I'm sure their might have been a couple bits I would have liked. Any floppies or scrap 1200/4000 motherboards among the trash?
Plaz
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I feel your pain redo. A few years ago (before there was an E-Bay) I had to move and, sigh pithed two working A2000s in various configs... Not only did it break my heart, but I had to pay an extra fee cause it was computer parts... :-x
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This really sucks, why did you not atleast take it to a thrift store or Goodwill? They would of surely taken them off your hands and sold them to someone that wanted it, and also helped a good cause to boot. I say Nothing Amiga should be throw out!
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What kind of stuff was this?? Could you not have given it away for shipping price instead?
And it would have been better to offer it here on amiga.org as well. I personally do not check ebay because price there is usually very insane and i bet others think the same as me.
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Rather wasteful. Why would you throw stuff in a dumpster when you could have at least freecycled it, donated it, or offered it here?
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Sympathies Red, I've had to do the same myself occasionally - 4 a500s went in the bin last time I moved house, although I rescued the FDDs.
With all the other arse of moving house, the last thing you need is to be losing an afternoon waiting for someone to turn up in response to a freecycle ad.
Moving house is all arse - you have my sypathies.
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I know the feeling. Around the time Amiga Format went belly up, I completed a Stalin-like purge of my Amiga stuff (sold most of it though). Man, did I regret it a year later. Wisely, I boxed up but held onto my A4000 and A3000 machines (both 060s).
A year or so ago I discovered Amiga.org....the rest is history
Nowadays the only thing that goes to the bin are the M$ AmigaBasic manuals that come with the odd A500.
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OMG, that is just so sicking that so many people start with that "you should never throw away", crap. I guess some people just don't realize that is the way some business in America have to be run. I think I have a good idea have about how much money Redrumloa has lost trying to give away stuff, and it probably cut deep.
I know I had a lot of stuff I was planning on giving away, but I just didn't have the room for it, so I had to get a storage area for it. It nearly cost me my family, it cost me a lot of money every month to keep that. Even when i had no job, THEY still wanted their money. Everything has a price on it. In the economy of today, there is no such thing as FREE.
I feel your pain Red, but that is the cold icy truth of the world, so I don't hate you. All the others that get on him about not "saving" the drowning Amiga stuff from his ship, should really wake up...
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Most likely it was crap anyways so who cares. If no one on eBay would pay even $.01 do you think it was worth anything at all? :crazy:
I think Red's smart enough not to trash anything of real value.
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@adolescent
There are some people that will freak out even if you as much throw away anything Amiga or such. Some people actually live in a sterilized world void of realism.
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What did you throw ? I go rarely on ebay outside Europe..
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Guys, nothing of tremdous value was thrown away. I essentially tried to give the stuff away at shiping. You really think I would have made a profit if it sold on eBay for $0.01? No it would have been a loss, and it still didn't sell,thus I made a loss on listing fees already.
The stuff was mostly software, with little hardware pieces. Used complete Word Perfect, some new boxed games, some used boxed utils(Art dept pro, OS2.0), a handy scanner etc etc. It was a couple boxes of retro stuff. No PPC cards, no Walker, no A3000+ etc.
I do hate to throw anything, I love the old Amiga. But times come when if you can't give it away, you must dump :-(
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Hey all:
I just started working with a local used computer dealer (he went under a year ago) and now we will take used Amiga stuff here in the Kansas City Area mainly because we are looking for parts to make repairs. Also, I will not use ebay at all for this effort because you have to markup things and there is a point where you just can not expect to get what you have in something back. I wish I had known what red had because if he had posted here on A.org, we might have paid the shipping at least :-) Although right now the business is just getting going, so we are mainly counting on donations.
It's interesting, but to support Amiga, you must have a couple up and running and getting those parts can be a trick :-) Plus you want a good showing.
Anyhow, last time I moved, I actually threw out a bunch of items that I regret tossing in the bin myself. So I can sympathize also. Don't be too hard on Red.
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buying stuff is too easy i perfer dumpster diving :-D
if id seen your stuff i probably would have bid on word perfect. i should search ebay for amiga software more often i usually only check for hardware.
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Most of the listings no longer show on eBay, but here are a few that still are. Most are north of $0.01, but not by much.
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8801129989&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8797575445&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8797573384&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8797570046&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8797571481&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8797572993&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8800746699&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&rd=1)
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Oh yeah BTW, donating to Goodwill or Starvation Army? Pfft puhlease!! Come on guys, focus!! :idea: They absolutely refuse to take any computer equipment older than 2 years, let alone ancient 80's tech.
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Yeah... I'm kinda surprised no one took the Word Perfect and the DigiView.... The rest, well, I might question why someone would want... Though I must admit, I have one of those god-awful Golden Image hand scanners in my collection, too. :lol:
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How much for the remote control in the picture of digiview? :-)
Ilwrath wrote:
Yeah... I'm kinda surprised no one took the Word Perfect
That one I would have liked for my little collection. Too bad I didn't see it. The will teach me to not include Red in my "favorite seller" list.
Plaz
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I used to live down the street (then "800 miles on I-10") from Reddy, but not anymore. :-( Maybe we can see a silver lining if we're sure that the stuff that got thrown away was stuff that 1000's of other people already have anyway. Still makes me sad to see any old cool electronics thrown away. :-(
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I could have take all of that, if i had seen your auctions...
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> OMG, that is just so sicking that so many people start with that "you should never throw away", crap.
Because you know, after we trash the Earth and exhaust it's resources, we'll all live on the moon. Yeah.
> I guess some people just don't realize that is the way some business in America have to be run.
I see we have another consumer. They don't call it "programming" for nothing.
>All the others that get on him about not "saving" the drowning Amiga stuff from his
> ship, should really wake up
You must be kidding. First, tis wasteful. Next, it's selfish. Third it's bad for the planet to just dump stuff that you still works.
Increasingly I see things laid at the curbside with a sign that says "FREE". Stuff usually goes in less than 8 hours. If you can't find a new home for your Amiga stuff you're either lazy or not using your brain.
Anyway, it's easy to see who votes Republican here.
>I think Red's smart enough not to trash anything of real value.
Ah child, of value to whom?
>The stuff was mostly software, with little hardware pieces. Used complete Word Perfect,
>some new boxed games, some used boxed utils(Art dept pro, OS2.0), a handy scanner
> etc etc. It was a couple boxes of retro stuff.
Hardly useless. As shown by the comments above. Why you didn't offer them on the Amiga newsgroups is beyond me. Most people don't bid on the 0.01 auctions on Ebay. Something about "If it's too good to be true".
And besides, tossing something up on ebay isn't the answer. I rarely look for Amiga stuff on ebay. I should, but most of us don't. Don't go pinning your hopes on ebay. Focus.
>Oh yeah BTW, donating to Goodwill or Starvation Army? Pfft puhlease!! Come on guys, focus!!
> They absolutely refuse to take any computer equipment older than 2 years, let alone ancient 80's tech.
Around here they do. And you know, those aren't the only thrift stores around. Most communities have church-run thrifts. There are also consignment shops. Let somebody else house your Amiga stuff for you (like a consignment shop).
Blessed are the dumpster-divers for they keep usable stuff out of the wastestream.
As a last resort just offer stuff on some of your local Freecycle lists Freecycle.org (http://freecycle.org) and CraigsList.org (http://www.craigslist.org)
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boing wrote:
Blessed are the dumpster-divers for they keep usable stuff out of the wastestream.
Gotta agree with that. I was taking out the trash at my apartment a couple of years ago and found a Yamaha MIDI keyboard, a Sony Trinitron 17" CRT, and some other computer bits (keyboard, mouse, floppies, etc.). The monitor still works perfectly (and is in use in my garage/lab). The keyboard went to a musician friend, I could have sold it though. I saw the same model on eBay missing the battery cover, but in similar condition, go for $109!!!
My latest score: A mint (I MEAN MINT!) condition IBM PS/2, monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything (except the box). Now, I'm not an IBM collector but this thing is so cherry I had to grab it just to play Zork!
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TjLaZer wrote:
This really sucks, why did you not atleast take it to a thrift store or Goodwill? They would of surely taken them off your hands and sold them to someone that wanted it, and also helped a good cause to boot. I say Nothing Amiga should be throw out!
What he said.
I did that with all my old Amiga stuff, better than junking it.
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@boing
Rude.
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There is a Goodwill around here. They have this huge trash compactor in the back.
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@adolescent
One time I saw one of those big garbage cans out in front of someone's house the day before garbage pickup. There was like 6 monitors in there (under a sack of mostly empty beer bottles). I knocked on the guy's door to ask if I could root through his garbage but he wasn't there, so I went home, got a wagon and hauled those bad boys home. Too bad only 2 powered up, and one of those had no brightness control so it was dark. The other I used for a few months until it exploded. But, the coolest thing was that I got to smash 5 dead monitors with a sledge hammer! WOOHOO!! Turns out that tossing them up in the air doesn't cause much damage. You gotta give them what for... then find a dust pan to clean up all the silvery dust. :destroy: :destroy: :destroy: :destroy: :destroy: :destroy: :destroy: :destroy:
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@boing
amiga.org and redrumloa helped me regain my interest in amiga computers.
I have also purchased a few things from him and found him to be very professional. I really don't know what political views have to do with it.
As for being a republican you go redrumloa ;-)