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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: amigamad on April 07, 2004, 04:36:24 PM

Title: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: amigamad on April 07, 2004, 04:36:24 PM: Go here and see the price of this Some ones idea of a joke (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3090255334&category=3544) :-? :-D
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: Noster on April 07, 2004, 04:54:02 PM: Hi

ok, it's not cheap, but if you search all parts in eBay and add the prices of these parts, you will get very close to this price...
I nevertheless doesn't think he will sell it, the "power-users" left in the Amiga-scene have a fast/good equiped Amiga and are just looking for single parts (the cream-caps for their systems :-))

Noster
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 07, 2004, 05:10:51 PM: You don't have to look far for the reason behind the steep price. They're hoping to fund the purchase of an AmigaOne.
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: Viking on April 07, 2004, 05:23:50 PM: Quote

Noster wrote:

ok, it's not cheap, but if you search all parts in eBay and add the prices of these parts, you will get very close to this price...

I disagree with you. I think that is cheap, very cheap. Yes, many people chose to give away their Amiga. Amiga buyers today are spoiled with low prices. I would not sold that Amiga for £ 700 even if I had no use for it.
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: amigamad on April 07, 2004, 05:26:36 PM: Quote
You don't have to look far for the reason behind the steep price. They're hoping to fund the purchase of an AmigaOne.

True but i doubt he will get over £450 for it . :-)
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: KptAmiga on April 07, 2004, 05:34:51 PM: I could have paid something like £400-500 for it, but £700 is pretty steep. That said, it's a damn cool setup.

Now, for extortion, you should check out the auctions at qxl.no (yes, Norway). Spotted some new ones today:

A1200 w/printer:
http://my.qxl.no/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=11493284

CD32
http://my.qxl.no/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=11495048

Both at 1500NOK (£130) buy it now price (though bidding starts lower on the CD32, it's still more than I'd pay for one)...
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: odin on April 07, 2004, 05:42:49 PM: No pics? For a valuable auction? Steer well clear.
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: Acill on April 07, 2004, 07:26:02 PM: Well its a bit on the high side for some, but you never know. I sold my A3000 with much of the same in it for only $800 and I wish I would have waited out for more, but I got my Pegasos II with the money so I am happy.
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 07, 2004, 08:50:10 PM: Quote

that_punk_guy wrote:
You don't have to look far for the reason behind the steep price. They're hoping to fund the purchase of an AmigaOne.

yeah

tbh i would NEVER spend that much money on that, or even an amiga1...

i'd just go to the backs of small computer companies, get the basics from there (tape drives, cd roms, raid controllers, cases, psu's) and then get the expensive stuff for £700, not for that stuff :-? :-? :-?
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: JKD on April 07, 2004, 10:19:00 PM: Seems a little steep...but not much. He might get close to that if he parted out and sold individually.

I sold my fully loaded CSPPC/CVPPC/memory etc. for over $800....

That would have bought someone an A1 motherboard or a loaded Peg2 system but the demand for the older kit is still out there.

Still waiting on my Peg2 G4 though..counting down the days!

Steve :-D
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: DanDude on April 07, 2004, 11:45:25 PM: No real pics, no sale!
That's one of my rules of buying on Ebay...
:-P
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: Roj on April 08, 2004, 01:16:57 AM: The fact tha both OS4 and MorphOS are slated to support that hardware isn't exactly a Bad Thing(tm). It may not be as fast as an A1 or Pegasos, but there's still something to be said for backward compatibility.
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: JKD on April 08, 2004, 04:41:56 AM: If I could've afforded to keep my CSPPC and buy another machine, I would've but now I have a family, house and all it just wasn't going to happen.

Have fun, :-D

Steve
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 08, 2004, 09:07:20 AM: Quote

DanDude wrote:
No real pics, no sale!
That's one of my rules of buying on Ebay...
:-P

this one guy went: "Come round to my house no delivery, A1200 and some other stuff"

so i went round, £20 and i got about 50 boxed games, external floppy, couple of zipsticks, quickshots, 200mb hard drive, and an apollo 1230 turbo accelerator card with 64megs of ram :-D

not bad ;-)
Title: Re: I thought april fools was over ?
Post by: darksun9210 on April 08, 2004, 10:04:31 AM: managed to shift my Amiga Technologies A4000T for 800UKP
CyberstormPPC/060 (bought for 350)
CybervisionPPC (bought for 120)
Cybervision3D (bought for 100)
Digital Broadcaster32 (bought for 1000)
AD516 (bought for 200)
Opal Vision (feebie with DBC32)
V/Lab Y/C (bought for 80)
Hydra Ethernet (bought for 80)

3x 9.1Gb Ultra Scsi (80 each)
1x 4.3Gb Ultra Scsi (bought for 40)
1x 3.2Gb narrow Scsi (bought for 30 quid)
2x 2.1Gb narrow Scsi (20 each)
IDE DVD-rom drive.... (40)

then i ended up lending my mum 600 quid for a trip to the states as she needed to book the ticket, and hadn't been paid. and have a seen a penny of it in return? nope.

sorry about this.... *sigh* :-(