One $EXPENSIVE$ A500 !!!

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Hi Folks,

Usually, I am not phazed by anything with the C= name on it that sells for way more money than it's worth these days, but, this one takes the cake:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-AMIGA-500-PLUS-games-joysticks-ext-drive_W0QQitemZ8217046928QQcategoryZ98930QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem">A500

$291.90 !!! (at the time of this post anyways) for an A500 !!!! I am looking at the auction and this system doesn't even have a hard drive or some other cool piece of hardware to justify the price!!

As far as the games go, 99.9% of those are available on various "Abandonware" sites, so providing a huge lot of "backups" pirated copies does not constitute a good reason for such a massive investment.

So, I ask you all, why would anyone allow themselves to pay this much for a setup like this? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Mike

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I tried to think to myself "self, you love Amiga's, would you spend that much on one? Sure I would, but not a hard disk-less , unaccellerated A500 with a bunch of pirated game copies."

I don't get it. I bought 2 complete Amiga 2000's on ebay, just recently. Each had a 2mb card in them, both had Bridgeboards with hard-cards, I got a functionaly 1084 monitor, 3 keyboards. Basically, I bought a mouse, begged a fine memeber of this site for a 1.3 ROM chip. I added a used 2091 with 7.0 ROMs from SoftHut and a used 4.5GB SCSI HD and I had a pretty nice Kickstart 1.3 based retro-gaming system with an HD and Workbench 1.3 to play with all of my old tools, utilities, games, fred fish disks, etc. Total cost = $139.00 shipping included.

Not too shabby, if I must say so myself. :-D

Thanks,
Mike

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Sorry, that was an accident.

- Mike

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Fixed! :-)

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WOW, all I can say is HOLY SH*T!!!

$438.77 in US dollars at the end of that auction. I am dumbfounded by that. Jesus, I think that when I bought my first A500 back in the 80's I paid less than that brand new WITH a 1084 monitor!!!

I almost feel like writing an email to the chap who won and saing, "Congratulations! You own the most expensive A500 on the planet!"

Thanks,
Mike

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I dont follow you, sorry. :-(

Thanks,
Mike

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Apparently, judging by that auction, you could get a bundle of cash for it too.