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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: justthatgood on May 17, 2007, 12:56:42 PM
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If you are interested, go ahead and look. If not, I guess let the "Feed the Greed" comments roll. I really honestly don't really care as I've had a VERY bad week. Stays on eBay unless someone can guarantee me a better offer. Serious offers as I have to use the money for something extremely important.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260119125431
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Looks nice and clean. Shame you're in the US as the buy-it-now when converted to GBP is fairly reasonable for a clean unit.
Best of luck with the auction.
Cheers,
Matt
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Best of luck to you on selling it and I hope your situation works out for you! :-)
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justthatgood wrote:
I really honestly don't really care as I've had a VERY bad week.
Is everything ok?
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M
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Well it seems that my unit sold faster then I thought. Well down to 2 Amiga's now....
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Hope Cecilia has gone to a good home. Sorry you had to sell :-(
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moto
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Dayum someone got a good deal on that. Sorry I was on the road and missed it!
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Okay I guess I should have charged more according to Doomy-
Question from retrogeek001
retrogeek001( 492)
Positive feedback: 93.2%
Member since: Jul-20-01
Location: OR, United States
Registered on: www.ebay.com
Item: Amiga 4000 Desktop (260119125431)
This message was sent after the listing closed.
You sold your Amiga 4000 computer too cheap. I usually get at least $500 for a stock, clean Amiga 4000. If you price Amiga items too low, people will take advantage of you. There are a lot of folks out there who think they can get something for nothing. The next time you sell an Amiga 4000, set the starting bid amount to $499.95 and set the Buy It Now price at $800.00.
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LMAO
someone should seriously stop this bloke. He's the Capitalist pig of the Capitalist world. If he got his way, starving 3rd world children would be making A4000s for a bowel of rice.........
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I thought of it first!! hands off people!
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You sold it for about what it's really worth on the current market. I paid a little over 300 for mine about a month ago--stock 040 with a video toaster card that didn't work. Every now and then things go nuts on Ebay and you get a lot more than something's really worth and sometimes you get something for a lot less than it's worth. Not everybody operates like Doomy. I just sold 2 1084s monitors and put a reasonable buy it now price on both of them and got my money fast and clean. I also listed with them an Atari Megafile drive that needed a new hard disk with a buy it now price of $40 and a minimum bid of $10. Someone bid on it which negated the buy it now price and guess what? It just sold in a flurry of sniping for $43. If the original bidder hadn't been so cheap and realized I wanted about what it it was worth for it and bought it, he would already have it shipped to him.
Yeah, you could have put a buy it now price of $350 and maybe it would have taken a little more time to get it. But you choose a selling strategy of low price fast cash and got it.
I wouldn't take any advice from Mr Doommastah. His feedback is screwing him up--yes, the Ebay feedback system does work-- and he's had a hard time selling things on Ebay right now. He had to do away with his 10 or more feedback requirement on the A4000 auction he just had in order to find a newbie buyer and I noticed he had to relist the zip ram he stripped from his A3000 several times and lower the price to 19.99 in order to sell it--below market rate in other words. :idea:
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In other words, you selling it for so little makes his auction look like what they are: rip offs and illustrations of how nuts people on eBay can really be as both sellers and buyers.
Generally, I do not like to generalize, but I have read plenty on this guy in forums and in his feedback. I cannot believe a word he has to say, and I feel that people like him are ruining the retro-computer market in favor of money in his own pocket.
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I feel that people like him are ruining the retro-computer market in favor of money in his own pocket.
It happens in every collectors market where there's money to be made. First saw it happen at about age 13 as an obsessed comic book fan. The good thing is not everyone sinks to that level. Some of us just want to have fun and make ourselves and others happy. And there are a lot of cool and fun things out there--Amiga and otherwise--that won't cost you nearly as much as Doomy's A4000.
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LoadWB wrote:
Generally, I do not like to generalize
:lol:
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moto
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@justthatgood
I think you did the right thing. I sold a stock A4000/030 machine a couple months ago and it took listing it three times to get $350 buy-it-now. In the end, the re-listings and eBay fees killed me and I made about the same money as you when all was said and done, maybe even less.
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Argus wrote:
I think you did the right thing. I sold a stock A4000/030 machine a couple months ago and it took listing it three times to get $350 buy-it-now. In the end, the re-listings and eBay fees killed me and I made about the same money as you when all was said and done, maybe even less.
I've seen a lot of stock A4000s being re-listed quite a few times because the starting bid or the BIN option was just too expensive. There's a stock 4000/040 for auction on eBay with a Buy It Now price of €350. I wonder how long it will be listed. I also wonder why Doomy doesn't buy this one and make a good profit out of it since he sure must get at least €450 for it... :-)
There's also an A2000 in "museum condition" on eBay for just €300 BIN (or €199 starting bid) - I wonder if Doomy would find that an okay price as well, since these machine are supposed to be BETTER than the A4000. Or maybe the seller asked Doomy already for a price to put it on eBay :lol:
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A fairly nice A4000D with a DVD burner installed and a broken keyboard just sold on Ebay for $207 this morning. You didn't do that badly
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I have sold a lot of amiga computers and items on ebay and I never sell buy it now. Some people pay more some get deals, but I leave it to the buyer to decide. I still retain my 100% feedback rating and 99% report fast service. The others don't report at all and that angers me, but that is another story. Back to the point, I think a buyer should bid what he thinks the item is worth, but If you want to try to get your money quickly Buy it Now is an option. Buy the way the 4000 looked very clean in the pics. I am sure the buyer will be happy. :-)
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Doommaster just relisted his A4000 for $500 buy it now so it looks like the first deal fell through. I reiterate, I wouldn't take any advice from this guy on how to sell your Amiga stuff on Ebay. Yours and the one that went this morning sold in the range they should sell for. I'm also a seller with 100% positve feedback and it is a real asset on Ebay. Doommasters negative feedback is slowly strangling his Ebay business.
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@Ami_GFX
Err, Yeah I'm a little more advanced on selling Amiga stuff on eBay, along with other stuff. I ended up having to pause on the selling of stuff, because PayPal screwed my stuff up.
One day I will be able to have my own webstore again so I don't have to deal with all the annoyances of eBbay, but then again, who knows.
Yes, My Cecilia unit is a very clean unit, I hardly got a chance to really use her. I kept her away from sunlight and ultraviolet sources, and away from smoke. That way so the bezel didn't get all yellowed up. As I got her for $125 many a year ago on eBay, I guess it's the trade going full course.
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I am very happy to see that you not only sold it for market price, but also that doomy didn't get a chance to buy it and re-sell it stripped down to nothing for 3x market price.
Geee I wonder why he re-listed his A4000? Because he's dishonest and tried to inflate the shipping *or* he had someone he knew outbid so that he could make it look like these are actually selling for that price... in an attempt to inflate the market value.
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Err, Yeah I'm a little more advanced on selling Amiga stuff on eBay, along with other stuff
I didn't mean to demean you in any way as an Ebayer, I was commenting on Doommaster who has just relisted his A3000 zip rams that he can't sell for 19.95.
I became an Ebay seller due to dire financial straits--dead car and I needed to buy a new one fast and the happy circumstance of my neighbors setting up a wifi system whose range extended to my house which gave a stable internet connection at home after years of dragging my wifi laptop around different hot spots and I'm very grateful to Ebay for giving me the means to get me out of the hole I was in and sell a lot of stuff I didn't need in order to buy things I did need like a car. And things are much better now and I can actually permit myself the luxury of buying rare and interesting things on Ebay like Amigas. And with this perspective of Ebay as a financial parachute, I'm not about to risk my feedback by buying something from someone like DoomMastah who could give you a negative on the slightest whim.
You sold an A4000 that you weren't using for a reasonable price and the buyer might actually use it and give it some life and maybe even create something interersting with it.
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that was a good deal. I would have bought it had I seen that sooner.. damn.