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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: amiga1084 on December 03, 2013, 07:01:20 AM
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Hello All,
I was googling Amiga software and I came along this site! Is this true?
Check it out!
http://softhut.us/
Thanks in advance,
Merv Stent
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Well that is good news.. However doesn't look like much in the way of larger hardware..ie machines, motherboards etc..
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The "going rates" comment worries me.
It doesn't look like we are likely to be getting any bargains.
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The "going rates" comment worries me.
It doesn't look like we are likely to be getting any bargains.
i'll try to keep prices as low as possible, but joe has to sign off on the price list before i post it. after all -- this is still his stuff, so i only have so much leverage. i'm just volunteering to sell it for him because i hated the idea that it would just get thrown out or otherwise destroyed in his warehouse over time.
p.s.: i didn't anticipate google finding the site just yet. the little blog was just for a few friends to follow. but now that everyone knows, yeah, i'm trying my best to get through all of the stuff. quite a lot isn't really worth much -- like tons and tons of old CDs of textures or PD software or ancient DRAM chips that probably don't even work anymore -- but some of it is. anyway, we'll see how it goes.
-- eliyahu
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That blog is great, just skimmed it, will have to sit down with it a little later and read completely, but ahh, I love it. An Amiga adventure, and involvement from one of our own forum members here. Good luck to you and Joe in this venture! :)
:pint::pint:
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eliyahu
This is great news! Thanks for taking this on. I actually thought about getting in touch with Joe and doing this myself. If Iwas still on east coast I would have. I think its most important to catalogue whats there. I'm sure there is some good parts. And I will be needing many as I'm sure alot of the muppets like me here will ;)
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I posted up looking for an Amiga 500.
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Looking forward to seeing what all is for sale...
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This IS great news! Spent thousands there, even got my A1XE from Joe. Looking forward to seeing whats available.
Chris
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Wow. quite a haul you had there. Sad that we've lost the only half way decent retailer in the country.
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This sort of situation was how AmigaKit in the UK was started! The demise of Eyetech, the British equivalent of Software Hut was turned into a business opportunity as Leaman Computing bought up the stock and started AmigaKit. The rest if history!
Has Eldee Stephens thought about buying up the stock himself and becoming the new AmigaOS reseller/systems builder/peripheral shop for North America? I know there is an AmigaKit branch in San Francisco but this might be good competition for them!
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@BozzerBigD
We were trading in the Amiga market for a good few years before we acquired the Eyetech inventory.
this might be good competition for them!
I think there is a misunderstanding on how large the Amiga market is in reality. From a professional Amiga business point of view, in this tiny worldwide market, extra competition is not necessarily good for us. Margins are already wafer thin and our overheads/running costs are large, remember we have bills, taxes and wages to pay every month. Our profits get re-invested back into Amiga projects so that we have new items to bring to the community next year. We depend on every single order we get from our customer base, and appreciate it.
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When you are on the subject of re-investing in the amiga market, is there any chance of a new zorro based graphics card?
There is a bunch of different projects, memory boards, ethernet, soundcard and usb cards being produced, but IMHO we/the market needs a new graphics card for ZorroII/III.
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We need to get the Prisma Sound Card out first- if that is successful, we will of course look at other viable projects.
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@BozzerBigD
We were trading in the Amiga market for a good few years before we acquired the Eyetech inventory.
I think there is a misunderstanding on how large the Amiga market is in reality. From a professional Amiga business point of view, in this tiny worldwide market, extra competition is not necessarily good for us. Margins are already wafer thin and our overheads/running costs are large, remember we have bills, taxes and wages to pay every month. Our profits get re-invested back into Amiga projects so that we have new items to bring to the community next year. We depend on every single order we get from our customer base, and appreciate it.
Sorry, I can see that you were already in business before the Eyetech inventory buyout;
From http://www.leamancomputing.com/?page=about
Company History
Leaman Computing was formed and started operations in July 2004.
Offices in Cardiff(UK) were opened in August 2006.
In September 2006, Leaman Computing announces acquisition of remaining stock from Eyetech Group, Limited.
On 6th April 2009 entire business was transferred to Leaman Computing Limited.
However, as far as most Amiga owners are concerned the fact that you had all that Eyetech stock really was the point where your public profile rose.
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This sort of situation was how AmigaKit in the UK was started! The demise of Eyetech, the British equivalent of Software Hut was turned into a business opportunity as Leaman Computing bought up the stock and started AmigaKit. The rest if history!
Has Eldee Stephens thought about buying up the stock himself and becoming the new AmigaOS reseller/systems builder/peripheral shop for North America? I know there is an AmigaKit branch in San Francisco but this might be good competition for them!
thanks for the enthusiasm, but there's a huge difference between me and amigakit. matthew and the guys at amigakit are the real deal: professional staff, great service, guaranteed kit, the lot. there's no question that, at least for me, they're the first stop for anything anyone needs amiga-related.
i'm just a guy volunteering to help joe get rid of the remainder of his old stock. heck, it's taken me months to inventory the items because i've got a rather demanding full-time job (thank heavens), so just remember i'm just some hobbyist working in his basement in his spare time. there is no way i'd want to do this for a living.
that said i hope folks find the items of interest. i didn't anticipate anyone even finding out about it until i had finished my inventory and pricing work. this stuff literally gathered dust for years, and will be untested, so i don't want to get everyone's hopes up, but i think they'll be a few gems in there. but by all means if anyone needs anything for their classic or next-generation amigas, the first stop should always be the professionals at amigakit, relec, vesalia, amedia, GGS, and alinea.
'softhut redux' is just gonna be the equivalent of an electronic swap meet. :)
-- eliyahu
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We were just talking about the Software Hut Bar B Q's yesterday. Interesting this should pop up just now.
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Yeah, it's too bad it'd gone silent so long ago, I wanted one of those GVP accelerators, but couldn't afford it for so long... but then they disappeared (or the site was never updated, so I wasn't sure if they were still around) ended up getting a Cyberstorm MK1 68060 off of amibay, and paid a lot for it.
Cool that more stuff is out there to get, someone really needs a better US presence. Sending hardware off to the UK to get them fixed is rather pricey.
But my Amiga 4000D is working awesome after Amigakit's work on it!
slaapliedje
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I posted up looking for an Amiga 500.
Well here you go! ;)
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=66414
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We need to get the Prisma Sound Card out first- if that is successful, we will of course look at other viable projects.
It would be so awesome if you could produce a new graphics card.
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I know there is an AmigaKit branch in San Francisco but this might be good competition for them!
There is no us branch of Amigakit its a front for the uk operation.
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'softhut redux' is just gonna be the equivalent of an electronic swap meet. :)
-- eliyahu
Just don't limit yourself to Amibay, that is THE Amiga Horder zone...
ps: I'm surprised no one uses Amazon to sell Amiga stuff...
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Just don't limit yourself to Amibay, that is THE Amiga Horder zone...
ps: I'm surprised no one uses Amazon to sell Amiga stuff...
I use amazon to sell surplus PC items, processors and server equipment and whatnot, from my office. Payment terms are good and inventory management is nice, but they absolutely *rape* you on shipping charges by setting them artificially low - because everyone who buys stuff on amazon expects low shipping prices, regardless of what the seller actually has to *pay* to ship the item. Ya just can't win! :destroy:
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Some day soon my old a500 will got to amigakit for a clean and a fix.
Can't for the life of me part with that old thing.
Its the first amiga I had from way back in 1990.