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Title: 100 amiga games
Post by: slayergirl80 on June 15, 2003, 09:58:02 PM

hey i need a bit of help. i gotta get rid of my amiga and games. i have over 100 copied amiga games that i want to sell. can anyone tell me how much i should be getting for them?

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: alx on June 15, 2003, 09:59:10 PM

What do you mean by "copied"?

BTW welcome to A.org :-)

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: slayergirl80 on June 15, 2003, 10:02:01 PM

most of them are not the original amiga disks but copies of the disks

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: alx on June 15, 2003, 10:07:39 PM

That's a big problem - one of the reasons that the Amiga nearly died the first time was copied disks - I very much doubt that many people here would buy those.

The originals are another matter - there are usually quite a few going on eBay, and you should be able to get an idea from there.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: odin on June 15, 2003, 10:13:56 PM

IMHO you can only ask the price of the disks. Copied games are worth zilch.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: slayergirl80 on June 15, 2003, 10:14:02 PM

oh really? thats a bummer cause i need to get rid of them. how much would you get for a commadore amiga?

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: bloodline on June 15, 2003, 10:36:31 PM

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slayergirl80 wrote:
oh really? thats a bummer cause i need to get rid of them. how much would you get for a commadore amiga?

Depends totally on the type of Amiga...

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: PMC on June 15, 2003, 11:45:10 PM

How much would you pay for copied albums on cassette compared with the originals?  Most people here are a little twitchy about copied stuff, as selling it could get you in trouble with copyrights etc.

As for the value of a used Amiga, this will depend a great deal on the model/condition.  A500s won't fetch much used as they're pretty obsolete these days, and A1200s don't tend to get very much as there are a lot of them about.  Any accessories will help (i.e. original monitors, packaging, scanners etc) and if your system is modified then that will also be of interest - standard Amiga's are very rare these days.....

However, if you've something rare and exotic (A3000/A3500/A4000 etc) for sale then get in touch :-D

Otherwise try www.amibench.org for a rough guide to used values.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: KennyR on June 16, 2003, 12:38:14 AM

The copied disks are worthless. Even if anyone wanted the games on them, they could just download them from the internet. The only attraction to buying old games now is for collector's value, and you don't get that from copies.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: Lando on June 16, 2003, 01:54:30 AM

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slayergirl80 wrote:
hey i need a bit of help. i gotta get rid of my amiga and games. i have over 100 copied amiga games that i want to sell. can anyone tell me how much i should be getting for them?

1p?  Dunno... I just binned 5 diskboxes full (500 disks) - this might give you some indication as to their value.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: Leo42 on June 16, 2003, 02:02:01 AM

The only thing that these copied disks worth is JAIL !

Leo.

Title: Re: 100 amiga games
Post by: that_punk_guy on June 16, 2003, 02:44:53 AM

The best thing I can think is to give them to a family member. It could be the greatest gift they have been given  :-D