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Title: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: skilgannon on May 28, 2009, 10:18:10 AM

Hi all,

My friend is trying to get a good idea on how much to sell his card for.  

He states on the English Amiga Board (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=45040):

"After looking around here and on Amibay (what ever happened to Amibench BTW?) I'm a bit unsure of how much to advertise my A1200 accelerator for and could use some pointers.

The card is a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240-T/ERC 040@40Mhz with a 32MB SIMM in it (currently). The PCB is actually a 1260 Mk II according to the screening on it and I guess could theoretically be upgraded to an 060.

It's designed for a towered A1200 (the SIMM hangs out of the trapdoor of a desktop A1200) but I've been using it in my desktop A1200 for a couple of years and it works fine (I tested it again this morning and took a screengrab of sysinfo).

I was powering the fan via the floppy connector so there's no plug for the CPU fan.

It's boxed with the manual but has no driver disk and the box isn't what could be called pristine!

In terms of location, I'm in Scotland.

I've taken some pics that I'll use in the eventual advert, see here for the unsorted pics in case that helps.

The fact that it's the T-ERC version and doesn't have a "plug and play" CPU fan connector make me unsure on pricing. Also the 1240/1260 thing is a bit odd as it's not mentioned on BBOAH etc.

Damn this ended up being a bit of a novel - sorry about that. So any idea of what I should be asking for it?"


I thought that I would post her because everyone is so very helpful all of the time :)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

Skil

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: djbase on May 28, 2009, 10:23:10 AM

I would say 150-200 Euro.

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: skilgannon on May 28, 2009, 10:00:30 PM

Thanks DJBase - we are thinking that kind of price range too :)

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: Amigadude on May 28, 2009, 10:32:57 PM

Try AmiBay (http://www.amibay.com/) for selling but don't start a how much or offers thread as it is frowned upon.

I sold my Blizzard 1230 about the same price I bought it new 10 years ago... so I think it wouldn't be too hard to get the top end of estimates in this thread.

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: redrumloa on May 28, 2009, 11:23:47 PM

Quote from: DJBase;456688

I would say 150-200 Euro.

Reasonable estimate, probably just about right.

-Editted- For sanity sake.

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: CLS2086 on May 28, 2009, 11:25:28 PM

bought one 55 € at Axe-Z France  2 month ago ... N.O.S. !
It was the last one...

Title: Re: Valuation for a Phase 5 Blizzard 1240 T-ERC 040@40Mhz?
Post by: skilgannon on July 28, 2009, 01:45:54 PM

Oh, meant to say that it eventually went for £113 on eBay which I think was a bit low :(  Hey ho.  I did spot a nice Amiga 1200 Blizzard PPC 603e+ 210Mhz Card 68040 w SCSI on eBay, sitting at £7 just now but it's for Spares / repair as it's listed as not working.  If you are technicall adept, it's maybe worth a punt to get it working again as it's a pretty great card.