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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: vpcs on March 15, 2004, 12:55:46 AM

Title: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: vpcs on March 15, 2004, 12:55:46 AM
This is the second one in a week over $50.00

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2792747286&category=4598
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: Morley on March 15, 2004, 01:00:44 AM
wow...and I have got one in mint condition :-) it's been stored away for the last 10 years so it isn't yellow either. More like brand new!
I must be sitting on a fortune :lol:

What are these people thinking? I would'nt even bother selling it on e-bay, but when people are willing to pay such a high price...something is wrong. Wrong!
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: Lando on March 15, 2004, 01:56:36 AM
One just sold for $275 - can you imagine? $275 for an old floppy drive.  I'm considering buying up Vesalia's entire stock and re-selling them all on Ebay and buying a nice beach house in Florida with the profits.
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: MaDDuck on March 15, 2004, 01:57:23 AM
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Morley wrote:
What are these people thinking? I would'nt even bother selling it on e-bay, but when people are willing to pay such a high price...something is wrong. Wrong!


Well, the drives are slowly wearing out and no new ones are being manufactured.

There are work arounds, but nothing beats the REAL THING!!!

BOTH of mine are staying in my A4000, BTW!!
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: Morley on March 15, 2004, 02:09:15 AM
And I just sold my entire A1200+Blizzard1230+SCSI setup for 200$..fully functioning with C=1942 monitor. I think prices are a lot higher in the US, here in scandinavia it looks like nobody wants amigas.
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: redrumloa on March 15, 2004, 02:35:47 AM
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vpcs wrote:
This is the second one in a week over $50.00

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2792747286&category=4598


$50? Wow that's a fluke.
Title: Re: What is up with these High priced Floppy drives?
Post by: jeffimix on March 15, 2004, 03:23:36 AM
I dunno, I think the 275 dollar had to be a fluke. I tend to do e-bay searches like "amiga" then hit the price button (since I don't care to look at the crud load of 99cents games). I've have seen some obscene prices, it's funny though that the monitors (like 1950s or even 1084s) go for more than buying a gfx card and getting a second hand VGA monitor would cost. As for floppy drives, some day I intend on spending the 4 or so dollars for buying a nice TEAC for my Catweasel, which should be more accepting of real Amiga disks. I have heard atleast (and I think it mentions on teac model particularly in the manual) that TEAC drives are generally very high quality... only bummer would be that a catweasel isn't bootable, so I'd have to fire up a real DD drive if the system went kaboom, but my 2000 is atleast as stable as my Xp box, and probably would suffer less if I left it on a long time, whereas the Xp box slows down more and more. Anyhow, I'm rambling, American prices on e-bay are generally obscene yes, tip: try www.ebay.de some stuff is cheaper, even with shipping, and there're enough nice europeans here if the seller doesn't want to ship to US.