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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: reddwarfer on March 11, 2007, 09:00:21 PM

Title: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: reddwarfer on March 11, 2007, 09:00:21 PM

Just been looking through the ad's in the local paper and saw an A1200 in there with a few games, joystick and extra disk drive, priced at £300.
I thought this was a mistake on the printers part so I rang up the guy. He went through the list of games etc. and asked him if he had made a mistake with the price....he said that he found from a well known source that these machines are so rare he was told to sell for a minimum price of £300. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: Darth_X on March 11, 2007, 09:15:54 PM

@reddwarfer

nice price.


By the way, I bet you made a lot of prank calls as a kid.
 :crazy:

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: Akiko on March 11, 2007, 09:30:19 PM

I used to see 1200's advertised in our local paper almost every week for as little as £30.00, that often included monitor, accelerator and tons of games.

I don't see any these days, obviously people have become acquainted with ebay and Amiga hardware pricing :-(

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: amigakit on March 11, 2007, 09:37:10 PM

The market has changed- a couple of years ago, people went through a stage of selling their Amiga kit as quickly as possible due to Windows migration.  There are a lot of those guys who regretted doing that now and Amigas are back in demand to retro users.  We now have New A1200 Magic Packs back in stock again too: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=668

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: weirdami on March 11, 2007, 10:52:00 PM

I remember selling a stock A1200 back around 1998 or so for $300. I wish I would have held out ten years for the $600 they're apparently worth now. :-)

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: Darth_X on March 11, 2007, 11:06:43 PM

I miss mystery science theatre..

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: MickTheLip on March 11, 2007, 11:21:21 PM

If you take that price as a guide, off EBay you could buy all the parts and cables you would need to have a very good system.HDD,Accelerator + memory and CD.Heck Igot a 1200 for £20 + lots of games and my latest computer buy was a A600 for £2.20 My latest buy is a an Amiga 1084S monitor for 0.99

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: rkauer on March 12, 2007, 12:11:04 AM

Here in Brazil the regular price for non-expanded (even without HD) A1200 is R$300,00 ,who means about US$150.00 or £100 (if my exchanger is correct).

£300 for a plain A1200 is too high, tought.

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: MickTheLip on March 16, 2007, 01:09:34 AM

Got my monitor today best £0.99 worth deal on Ebay yet.Works well and looks very tidy.

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: bobamu on March 16, 2007, 08:15:22 AM

£300 is too much

OMG R4R3 is all that can be said

a well known source? maybe the well known source thought it was a military spec nasa version?  :crazy:

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: motorollin on March 16, 2007, 09:31:35 AM

I bought my first ever A1200 for £250 from a guy in Luton about 10 years ago :-) I absolutely loved it. Coming home and playing Cannon Fodder with my best mate was the most exciting thing ever. And playing WormsDC was even better. I miss those days  :cry:

I paid the same amount earlier this year for my A4000!

--
moto

Title: Re: £300 for a standard A1200!!!
Post by: madsjm on March 16, 2007, 11:42:00 AM

@motorollin: With the 060?  :-o