Several PPC cards on Amibench

[Lemmink]

Why not ask his bank if it is he who own the account?

Because a bank will give this kind of information only to the gouverment or the police. That`s at least how it is here in germany.
If you are worried about the prices being susspicously low I can calm you. I had a look at the prices and I can tell you that they are only about 10% below the average price here in germany. I recently got a CSPPC 040/40MHz /180 MHz for 180 EUR incl. p&p
From what I have read here at AOrg I think prices for used Amiga-Hardware are ridiculously high in the US. For top notch hardware about 170% of what I would pay here.

[Lemmink]

What happens if you have got a Power Flyer, like me?

well, you just get higher transferrates at nearly the same high CPU-load the onboard IDE generates.
All IDE controller for the Amiga generate between 80-99% CPU load while accessing the attached drives, so SCSI is a must for a seriously used Amiga.

[Lemmink]

I didn`t manage to push the CPU load above 20% when checking the UWSCSI on my CSPPC/060 with SCSI-bench. I tried every cobination of settings for the test from best to worst. I got values from 14% to 18% while being total idle the systemload was at 7% to start with.

[Lemmink]

I once sent a PPC card from Germany to Spain and it took about 3 weeks. The german post system is quite slow. Letters and things are no Problem, but when it comes to pacels it can take even one whole week to deliver just in germany.
If you don`t live in the direct neighberhood, like France or the Netherlands I would expect 3-4 weeks for the pacel to be delivered.

[Lemmink]

Oh you are talking about Bernd Binder. In that case I can nearly garantee you that everything is all right. I have bought something from him quite some time ago. I can remember that it took some time to arrive, but I did get it. I get mails from him occasionally with an actual list of things his club has to sell.
In his last mail (in December) he wrote that he is sorry he hasn`t answered his mails for some time, but he has to go to the hospital frequently.
So maybe he ist in hospital for some days again right now.

[Lemmink]

Hmm, I have been following this thread and I am a bit confused. Although it has been around 3 years or so I had business with Bernd Binder it went all right, but I think I recall that it took more time to deliver the goods as it should have taken.
I can`t imagine this being a scam cos` he send out a quite large list of things he/his club has to sell and that for some years being. You can`t get along this long time if you just rip off people.
I have a dug through my cupboard and actually found a small two pages newsletter from 15.02.2001 he included with the pacel he once send me.
If you PM me we can crosscheck his adress and mobile phonenumber, as it is written in the head of the newsletter.

[Lemmink]

If shipping was really only 2,05 EUR he didn`t send it as a pacel but as a Europe Maxiletter. This will explain the limmited tracking possibilities and the card would be packed in a very slim cardbox the Deutsche Post has to offer. I have such a cardbox here and theoretical a PPCcard could fit in there, but the chances it would survive the delivery would be very slim.

[Lemmink]

What you can see on the picture is a temporary licence plate. It`s a bad photo but as far as I can see it expires on 21.08.04