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Title: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: carvedeye on April 30, 2018, 01:36:37 PM
Hi all, how much do you think I would get for my system as I am thinking about selling it.
I very rarely use it these days so its just gathering dust.

Specs are below.

TIA Ray

Specs.
Amiga 1200
EZ-Z4 Tower
Mediator LT4
M1230XA 50Mhz 68030 w/64mb
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon 9250 128mb (used for fast ram)
Realtek LAN Card
Spider USB Card
80gb HDD With AmigaOS 3.9 + BB1-2

Also comes with about 35 Boxed Games (All Original's) and 15 Large Diskette Holders (Large Size) All containing Floppy Disk's
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Djole on April 30, 2018, 01:38:48 PM
You will regret it :)
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: LoadWB on April 30, 2018, 02:05:04 PM
You will get whatever someone will pay for it. ;)

Oh, and what Djole said.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on April 30, 2018, 03:21:09 PM
Echoing the above.  However if you still want to sell it, I'll start the bidding at $2 USD.  ;)


(https://www.collectons.com//images/items/2013/06/14/1371244271.jpg)
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Iggy on April 30, 2018, 03:58:53 PM
Quote from: carvedeye;838857
Hi all, how much do you think I would get for my system as I am thinking about selling it.
I very rarely use it these days so its just gathering dust.

Specs are below.

TIA Ray

Specs.
Amiga 1200
EZ-Z4 Tower
Mediator LT4
M1230XA 50Mhz 68030 w/64mb
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon 9250 128mb (used for fast ram)
Realtek LAN Card
Spider USB Card
80gb HDD With AmigaOS 3.9 + BB1-2

Also comes with about 35 Boxed Games (All Original's) and 15 Large Diskette Holders (Large Size) All containing Floppy Disk's


These days, probably more than you should, after all that is a fairly nice system.
I'd give it a minimum of $600, and it would likely sell for more.
Although, as posted previously, you'll regret it.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: giZmo350 on April 30, 2018, 05:43:20 PM
(http://viralviralvideos.com/wp-content/uploads/funny-pictures/Regrets.jpg)

And my tat ain't it!

Must * Main * Tain * Rel * I * Van * Cy.... :laugh1:
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: goldfish on April 30, 2018, 08:34:25 PM
Dont do it your regret it I sold mine which had 060 and picasso IV in A1200 power tower. Now I have desktop with 030 and a none functioning A1200 power tower with Mediator does not like ACA1233 with mediator . Only sell if your planning on using money for NG Amiga
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: klx300r on April 30, 2018, 09:36:49 PM
@ carvedeye

if it's in working condition with no issues and case in good-great condition I would say I wouldn't sell it for less than $900 + USD. Similar systems have sold for alot more over at AmiBay and ridiculous amounts on EBay.  If it had an 060 or PPC board than that's another stratosphere for classic amigans :hammer:

oh & as other have mentioned yes you'll eventually regret selling it and eventually you'll end up spending 2 times more to get a similar setup in the future..& yes only AMIGA:hammer:
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: midway on April 30, 2018, 11:40:45 PM
You will get thiiis many offers but probably in a few years want to buy it back for nostalgia. Thats at least what happened to me in the 90s and the ppc/4kt i had
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: LoadWB on May 01, 2018, 12:33:39 AM
Quote from: midway;838873
You will get thiiis many offers but probably in a few years want to buy it back for nostalgia. Thats at least what happened to me in the 90s and the ppc/4kt i had


The number of times I think back to when I got rid of something and curse myself.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: amigakid on May 01, 2018, 09:09:58 AM
I sold my A1200 setup a number of years ago and have regretted it ever since.  Luckily I have an A 4000 but getting it all upgraded and trying to find some of the stuff I sold is expensive and hard to find.  If you do sell it I would say around 900 bucks as it looks like a nice system.  Think hard though because if you try to piece one together again with those specs it'll run you twice that, if you can get all the stuff
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Akiko on May 01, 2018, 10:15:14 AM
It can be a bit time consuming, but if you wish to achieve the best price,  then I recommend you dismantle the Amiga and sell each part individually including the games. To find the current market value of each part do some research on eBay using the "completed listings" to give you rough estimate of what your hardware and games might  all be worth. You might prefer a quick sale, or for the Amiga to go to a good home, however just beware that the Amiga scene is crawling with resellers these days, so if you don't take the time then someone else may have already done the math.

Also as others have said be 100% sure you won't ever want to rebuild a similar spec machine in future, even though your hardware is modest, finding the parts might be difficult, prices keep rising and if Elbox should ever go out of business the resellers will move in and triple the price of that hardware overnight.

Good luck.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: DWV on May 02, 2018, 10:10:20 PM
Basically, this stuff is worthless, I tried selling a pile of stuff and had no luck at all, and for the few things I did sell, I only got pennies on the dollar, so it just was not worth boxing and shipping a 100 packages all over the world, so I just took it all to the electronics recycling depot.
And no, I don't regret it!
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: LoadWB on May 02, 2018, 10:48:20 PM
Quote from: DWV;838918
Basically, this stuff is worthless, I tried selling a pile of stuff and had no luck at all, and for the few things I did sell, I only got pennies on the dollar, so it just was not worth boxing and shipping a 100 packages all over the world, so I just took it all to the electronics recycling depot.
And no, I don't regret it!


Smells like bait.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: pyrre on May 03, 2018, 12:52:27 AM
Quote from: LoadWB;838920
Smells like bait.
yea....
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7pFSfVZBI) goes through my mind when i read posts like this....
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: DWV on May 03, 2018, 06:59:15 PM
It's not "bait", I just got tired of people nickle and dimeing me to death, and just took it to the recyclers, solved all my problems.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on May 03, 2018, 09:08:02 PM
Quote from: DWV;838941
It's not "bait", I just got tired of people nickle and dimeing me to death, and just took it to the recyclers, solved all my problems.

Not trying to sound snarky but if you obviously hate Amiga so much, why are you still here?

Heck, even giving the stuff away on Craigslist would've been a better option...
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: smerf on May 03, 2018, 10:17:18 PM
Just threw out 2 Amiga 3000, one with a case one without, one Amiga 4000, with case none of them worked. but they did have the plug in card boards, and the power supplies. Good by to space taker uppers. Now I am getting ready to throw out a stack of Amiga Disks boxes that go 2 disks across and about 100 disks back on each side out, I have 5 boxes or more stacked about 5 foot high. Had to get rid of this stuff because we are moving.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: BozzerBigD on May 03, 2018, 10:43:37 PM
Quote from: smerf;838946
Just threw out 2 Amiga 3000, one with a case one without, one Amiga 4000, with case none of them worked. but they did have the plug in card boards, and the power supplies. Good by to space taker uppers. Now I am getting ready to throw out a stack of Amiga Disks boxes that go 2 disks across and about 100 disks back on each side out, I have 5 boxes or more stacked about 5 foot high. Had to get rid of this stuff because we are moving.
Idiot! Is that what you wanted to hear? You're posting on an Amiga thread not RecoveringHoarders.com what do you expect me to say?
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: klx300r on May 04, 2018, 12:58:47 AM
Quote from: smerf;838946
Just threw out 2 Amiga 3000, one with a case one without, one Amiga 4000, with case none of them worked. but they did have the plug in card boards, and the power supplies. Good by to space taker uppers. Now I am getting ready to throw out a stack of Amiga Disks boxes that go 2 disks across and about 100 disks back on each side out, I have 5 boxes or more stacked about 5 foot high. Had to get rid of this stuff because we are moving.

ouch! man this thread is too depressing :(:cry::eek:
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Kremlar on May 04, 2018, 05:01:45 PM
Quote from: BozzerBigD;838947
Idiot! Is that what you wanted to hear? You're posting on an Amiga thread not RecoveringHoarders.com what do you expect me to say?



:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: DWV on May 04, 2018, 08:24:58 PM
I don't hate Amigas, I still have my A2000 and A1200, I just threw out all the cards that I didn't need, plus an A500 that I haven't used in 10 years.

2 Video toasters
2 TBC II's
1 A2091
2 kitchen Sync's
1 personal Animation Controller
1 1084s monitor
1 ram card
2 AG1960 VCR's
boxes of books, manuals and (bad) disks

All the programs have been archived as .adf's
Most of the good disks have been reformatted to be used in my Emax sampler.

That's what happens when you move from a 2500 sqft house to a 700 sqft mobile home, you have no choice but to PURGE, when I went through the boxes in the garage, I never opened any of them, if I could not remember what was in them, then they could not have been to important, so I just took them to the dump.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on May 04, 2018, 10:26:35 PM
Quote from: DWV;838977
you have no choice but to PURGE, when I went through the boxes in the garage, I never opened any of them, if I could not remember what was in them, then they could not have been to important, so I just took them to the dump.

It's called Craigslist.  Or Freecycle.  Heck, even post on Amiga.org and see if anyone wants to come get the stuff.  Just because it's no longer important or valuable to you, doesn't mean it isn't valuable to someone.  :(
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: LoadWB on May 05, 2018, 12:57:56 AM
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;838980
It's called Craigslist.  Or Freecycle.  Heck, even post on Amiga.org and see if anyone wants to come get the stuff.  Just because it's no longer important or valuable to you, doesn't mean it isn't valuable to someone.  :(


In defense, I have found in the past times when it was impossible to GIVE stuff away, even on CL or FC.  It was heartbreaking but I did have to throw some stuff out as I could no longer move it around or store it.
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on May 05, 2018, 02:00:25 AM
Quote from: LoadWB;838985
In defense, I have found in the past times when it was impossible to GIVE stuff away, even on CL or FC.  It was heartbreaking but I did have to throw some stuff out as I could no longer move it around or store it.

Hummm.  Guess it might be location based.  Among other random junk I've gotten rid of, I've had no problem giving away a van-load of Dell monitor stands in the past (we upgraded all the monitors in the office to specialized mounts).  And heck, who even wants a couple of those things, let alone a van full?  ;)  (see attached picture for what I mean)

Oh well, next time y'all feel like throwing something away, let me know.  Maybe I can find a good home for it.  :)
Title: Re: How much would i get for my system?
Post by: DWV on May 07, 2018, 11:22:37 PM
I posted ads on craigslist, first to try and sell them, then to give them away, and even when they where free, I would get guys asking if I could deliver them to f***ing Vancouver, sure, I'm going to drive 150km each way in bumper to bumper traffic to deliver them... NOT!
So now I don't even waste my time, I just throw everything in the truck, and take it to the recycler.