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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: TjLaZer on August 09, 2013, 07:27:02 PM
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Here is an Amiga 1000 that is being sold for $2,600. A few of us die hard Amigans have tried to help out the seller with his sale and he has taken it a little hard and is posting the comments on the auction. I tried to be nice and tell him he needs to lower it and also post pics if he wants to sell it. :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=151095162850
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I don't think the seller understands. He says it negative comments. Criticisms should not be taken personal. It should be used to learn. At least you tried to reason with the seller.
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Seller is an idiot. Maybe he sees Jesus in his Amiga, too? I sent him a nice, reasonable message too. Maybe I'll get "famous" by being posted on his wall also? Ha!
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Seller is an idiot. Maybe he sees Jesus in his Amiga, too? I sent him a nice, reasonable message too. Maybe I'll get "famous" by being posted on his wall also? Ha!
You sir are now famous ;)
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Seller is an idiot.
Not true. What if some real idiot comes along and buys it? Can't hurt to try!
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As I have stated before in other Amiga related posts, GREED. GREED, GREED, GRAB, GRAB, GRAB.
Mike
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I laugh at all these threads about "crazy Amiga listings"...they are humorous on so many different levels...and...just for some perspective, I'm not lol'ing at the seller either :)
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Not true. What if some real idiot comes along and buys it? Can't hurt to try!
In my view it make both of them idiots. True maybe some one think it rare. If it rare like gold than I be surprised.
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I believe it is stupid to try to contact any seller to complain about the high price of an item. If it is way above market prices, it wont sell, so he/she will have to lower it till it finds a sweet spot for a buyer.
Complaining about Amiga high prices does nothing to solve that.
Be honest, there are a lot of Amiga hoarders that have more than a dozen Amigas that never get used at all, and that doesnt help to generate better offers in the used market.
Also there are also some users, that buy and resell at an important markup (highly unreasonable you may say for hobbysts), like for example that guy from Hungary in ebay. Or if you wish, we may add to the list, those 30 or something guys (from Amibay and Ebay) that sold their Amiga ethernet cards way above their buying price, speculating on buying the soon to be released Xsurf-100 at a lower price, so that they keep some pocket change in this process. The exactly same thing happens with Amiga accelerators, especially now that the current ACA 12xxx series batch seems to be reaching out of stock status on the usual Amiga shops.
In the end, I believe that complaining about high prices on Amiga stuff is something that goes from stupidity to hipocresy
But then... it is your choice :)
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Someone can't manipulate the price anymore. We have 3 FPGA Amigas to choose from.
When someone has the Ebay store it only costs 1 cent to list something, so the guy doesn't care if it sells or not.
I am personally fed up with Ebay. I went there to compare prices and the things I was after were actually more expensive on Ebay than the stores I checked.
I don't sell there anymore. I can do a bit of browsing by selecting auctions only. It is a horrible experience if you just want to do a bit of browsing with no particular product in mind.
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It would be nice to know what he offers at next from his parents rooms. What could it be, a rocking chair, an old clothes stand, a pair of worn boots galoshes plus spats, or probably an antique briefcase from 1945? :rolleyes:
Maybe we should immediately contact a bookie!
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As I have stated before in other Amiga related posts, GREED. GREED, GREED, GRAB, GRAB, GRAB.
Mike
How do you know it's greed?
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He said he just picked $2,600 as a number and also made reference to Christ in the Chicken McNugget that I guess sold for a lot? Well for one you cannot compare a freak eBay sale to an Amiga 1000. The A1000 is NOT that freaky or rare to expect it will sell for thousands of dollars. But then again he hasn't searched very hard. But even on eBay you can see A1000's for sale pretty often in the US anyways. True there might not be 100 offered at the same time, but they are on there often enough. I guess he thinks it's indeed the Christ in the Chicken McNugget of Computers!
Image removed because it was reported to mods. Link provided for those interested in knowing more.
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/26779/nugget-of-jesus/
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Seller is an idiot. Maybe he sees Jesus in his Amiga, too?
HAHAHAH lmao.. i needed a good laugh today. :)
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TJ
I dont think its appropriate to blaspheme with that pic. I'm sure its against the rules.
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I dont think its appropriate to blaspheme with that pic.
Obviously only religious people think it's blasphemy :rolleyes:
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TJ
I dont think its appropriate to blaspheme with that pic. I'm sure its against the rules.
What's wrong with that pic? It just shows Jesus and his chicken nugget. Nothing blasphemous about it.
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It's a trend now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1000-/271256149299?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item3f28205d33
I wonder what the seller would want if the power button worked.
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eBay obviously don't give a crap.
I find it amusing that eBay will limit the amount of money one can charge to post a DVD (for example) but allows a moron to start the auction price of a broken Amiga 1000 at $2,000.
If eBay wants customers in the long term they would restrict such idiots from being able to list at that price in the first place.
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There is another A1000 for $2k with $3k BIN
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1000-/271256149299?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item3f28205d33
Maybe we all can list our A1000 for $1000 or more and see who can sell it first at that price. I think they have free listings right now.
It could be a game.
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eBay obviously don't give a crap.
I find it amusing that eBay will limit the amount of money one can charge to post a DVD (for example) but allows a moron to start the auction price of a broken Amiga 1000 at $2,000.
If eBay wants customers in the long term they would restrict such idiots from being able to list at that price in the first place.
Problem is Ebay has no idea what some of these things are worth. Some of the first Apples might go for $20,000 if a fully functional AAA prototype were to show up that could be worth thousands.
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People can sell their Amigas for whatever they want to ask for them! You don't have to buy it, so get over it.
That being said, I look at every single one of these auctions and I would definitely pay this kind of money for an Amiga 1000 with the original Boing Ball logo - which was the badge the Amiga 1000 was being sold with before Commodore purchase the rights to the Amiga.
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I've got a stack of Amiga 1000's, eBay time?
:)
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I have a mint MilSpec Doomy edition Amiga 2000 I'm thinking of selling. Should I include a chicken nugget with it? ;) I'm sure I can find one that looks like something. Hahaha
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You sir are now famous ;)
Aw-shucks, I guess I'm famous too. Serves me right for asking if it was blessed at the Temple of Hi-Toro :D
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Wow! The going rate for an A1000 is between $70 to $140 depending on how many are available. I can't believe he is serious about that price. No real photos. No peripherals or original box.
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That being said, I look at every single one of these auctions and I would definitely pay this kind of money for an Amiga 1000 with the original Boing Ball logo - which was the badge the Amiga 1000 was being sold with before Commodore purchase the rights to the Amiga.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I thought the A1000, hence the badges were produced by Commodore only after acquiring the rights (Sanyo in Japan was the contract manufacturer).
Back around '97 I got a few of those boing ball badges from Dale Larson's Intangible Assets Manufacturing. It was mentioned (http://www.amigareport.com/ar501/news13.html) at the time that Commodore changed their mind and dumped the boing ball in favor of the rainbow checkmark, leaving boxes of unused boing ball badges up for grabs.
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Maybe he could work out a deal with this guys shaver bag.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lovely-Gents-Shavers-Bag-/161083826161?pt=UK_Men_s_Bags&hash=item2581581ff1 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lovely-Gents-Shavers-Bag-/161083826161?pt=UK_Men_s_Bags&hash=item2581581ff1)
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I don't think I'll tell this joker on Ebay that I bought my Amiga 1000 complete in its box at an Amiga show in St. Louis a few years ago for $50. And no, I'm not selling it. ;)
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There is another A1000 for $2k with $3k BIN
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1000-/271256149299?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item3f28205d33
Maybe we all can list our A1000 for $1000 or more and see who can sell it first at that price. I think they have free listings right now.
It could be a game.
I contacted the seller with the $2000 A1000 and tried to explain to him about his pricing.
He responded saying he had researched pricing and found the $2600 unit and that's what he based his pricing on.
Sent him another email telling that unit was the source of much derision here in the Amiga community.
Guess we'll see if he takes the hint. NOT!
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He responded saying he had researched pricing and found the $2600 unit and that's what he based his pricing on.
I have seen fully decked out Amiga 4000s for around that price, but not an Amiga 1000. It never even cost that new!
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You can't reason with delusional people. Let them list them for what they want and they will see the errors of their ways when nobody bids.
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There are other tricks on ebay. Someone will sell an instruction manual, but only mention it's only the manual at the bottom of the page in small print. Occasionally people are not going to bother reading the description until after they have paid the money.
Also there is one now where framed photos of retro computers are up for sale.
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I had one tool who bid on my Atari TOS 2.6 rom set on eBay $25 + $8 shipping to South America) thinking he just scored an Atari 1040STE computer! He actually thought that's what he won and when he realized his error days after he won asked if he can cancel. I told him sure but asked him WTF was he thinking! That he scored this for only $31 shipped??? LOL