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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: redrumloa on September 19, 2003, 12:41:13 PM
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A4000 local to me. (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2752063487&category=1486&rd=1)
I was winning bidder at $299 until the last ~hour when 1 lousey person outbid me. Obviously a video guy because I re-bid up to $400 and was still outbid:-( That's more than this box is worth IMO, shame. No way I was going higher than that. I was actually going to keep this box to play with, oh well. Maybe next time :-D
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What happened to the last one you got? Or did I miss something?
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That's always annoying. Last month I thought I was in for a Motorola Powermac clone on the cheap, until some bugger outbid me :-( Yeah, yeah that's how auctions work, etc :-D
That A4000 looks like a nice example, although it's a little bit strange they didn't show a photo of the front panel of the main unit.
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/me gives Red a lollipop
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Karlos wrote:
What happened to the last one you got? Or did I miss something?
You missed something:-) I sold the motherboard to an AO member. Purely buisness on that one, it was lacking a power supply so I parted it out. The remaining parts will be put on eBay shortly.
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Hmm, bells are ringing now...
Maybe I didnt miss it but it was simply lost in that hole-ridden vacuous excuse for a memory I'm developing...
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wow...it had firecracker!
i missed that auction....grr
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My A4000/040 with CV64, Toccata, Ariadne and DPS PAR + the odd soft and some books finally went for about 800€/900$. Some of it was sold together, the rest was sold as seperate items. A few items (http://cgi6.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=tintin0801&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50) are still being bid on right now, amazing thing is I had a bid on each and every item, no leftovers :-)
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@tintin
Yeah parting a system out is the way to go. You probably would have goen half of that if you sold it all together. Trust me I know this from first hand experience.
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@redrumloa
It was thanx to you and some other people on this forum I did it this way so I guess I owe you a drink :pint:
Cheers !
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redrumloa wrote:
A4000 local to me. (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2752063487&category=1486&rd=1)
I was winning bidder at $299 until the last ~hour when 1 lousey person outbid me. Obviously a video guy because I re-bid up to $400 and was still outbid:-( That's more than this box is worth IMO, shame. No way I was going higher than that. I was actually going to keep this box to play with, oh well. Maybe next time :-D
Ouch! I once bid on an A1200T-system. Ateo busboard, 040@50, 64mb RAM, Pixel64 Gfx-card, sound card, etc. I was outbid five minutes before the auction ended... :(
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cool avatar.... Karlos
No I didn't start anything......!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
:-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-D
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Its happend to me as well sometimes when there is less than a minute to go, thats why i prefer opera for ebay. You can have one window open with the item to bid on and enable refresh every 1minute or every 15 seconds, and another with a higher bid just waiting for you to confirm it ,use the tile mode to get both windows alongside when it near to the end of item like in the last 1minute to 45 seconds confirm the bid in the second window . :-)
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Awww you poor thing.. here you go: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2754388667&category=8142 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2754388667&category=8142)
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Yeah, I know the feeling.. My 2000 went 'pop' last week (It had been on it's last legs for over a year) -- and I thought it would be time to maybe replace it with a 3000...
Just as I was tooling around looking for my ebay password, this guy Redrum-somethingorother- put a bid down on it :P
I'm hanging back to see if anyone else is gonna push the price up :)
Cheers!
Siggy
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Just as I was tooling around looking for my ebay password, this guy Redrum-somethingorother- put a bid down on it :P
LOL! Don't worry, I'm not going too high on that one:-)
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I never bid on an auction until the last 10 seconds or so.
There's no point placing a bid earlier - all you're doing is driving the price up and will 9 times out of 10 be outbid anyway.
You have to decide the max you're willing to pay, and bid exactly $0.01 more (just incase your high bid happens to be the maximum bid of the current winning bidder, so you still outbid him but dont have to pay any more), about 10-15 seconds before the end of the auction (so nobody else has time to bid). Commonly known as "sniping".
The only problem with this is that everybody does it now so if it's a popular item you end up with 10 people all bidding in the dying seconds.
As a seller it's quite amusing to see something you're selling stay at $50 for the whole week then shoot up to $200 in the last 30 seconds :-)
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So basically you need a good ping for this, LPBastards are ruling just like all the FPS games ;-).
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Wow, isn't that expensive for an A4000/030? Or, am I missing something. I got my 040 for $200. I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?
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I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?
But the video card says something about mutiple monitors. :-)
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What kind of Videocard is that Firecracker card anyway ? Amiga-hardware.com lists it as non-RTG and doesn't give any other usefull information.
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adolescent wrote:
Wow, isn't that expensive for an A4000/030? Or, am I missing something. I got my 040 for $200. I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?
Well yeah sort of, all put in perspective in is a bit steep. I was willing to bid a little more than usual because it was local to me. I would have to pay shipping and I would be able to verify it's condition before paying.
If it wasn't local I wouldn't even want to pay the shipping for that monitor:-)
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locutus wrote:
What kind of Videocard is that Firecracker card anyway ? Amiga-hardware.com lists it as non-RTG and doesn't give any other usefull information.
It's a non-rtg. You can't use it for workbench but you can with software like Image FX.
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The FireCracker was one of the very early 24bit cards. I remember seeing them at Creative Computers in the early 90s.
As mentioned, it does not support RTG. I don't even think there was a WB emulation available (like RetinaEmu). It requires a seperate monitor (or a switch) to use.