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Amibay.com. You'll mostly be buying from Europe, not sure where you're located. Prices aren't much better than on eBay, however.
I was talking to an older guy, maybe in his 70's, couple months ago in a retail store and we got to talking about old computers somehow. He told me that he will drive hundreds of miles to collect any old Amiga and Mac Classic stuff to resell! I asked him if he resells it on eBay. He said "NO!" He told me that he resells ALL OF IT in lots/bulk to "buyers of old computer equipment" as they pay good $$$ for ANYTHING Mac and Amiga. I asked him if he would be willing to sell any Amiga stuff to me and he just started laughing! :furious:Who can compete with that? I'm sure that are hundreds of retirees that do this - says he has a network!I'm was thinking "there's an Amiga BLACK MARKET - JEEEEBUZ!?"The other day I saw a bog standard A500 going for over $1K BIN on eBay and someone friggin bought it! Amiga prices are thru the roof! There's no way I could get into real Amiga these days. Glad I bought what machines I have over 10 years ago. I think I'll be able to retire from what I have - which ain't a whole lot! :lol: Scuzzzzz will make out quite handsomely someday.I'm weary looking at airey36's crappy stuff on eBay! :hammer:At least you can still pick up motherboards fairly reasonable to build a machine along with today's new internals. But try finding a reasonably priced original keyboard - ACK!!!!!! BTW, I need/want to buy a functional - good condition A500 keyboard... anyone... anyone?
This hobby has gone down the crapper in recent years, gone are the good old days when nobody cared about "retro".These days, even if I (very rarely) find something of interest in a flea-market, the seller asks for an insane price (because its retro!) and quotes Ebay prices.I collect computers and consoles since the 90's and my entire collection cost me less than it would cost to buy a single A1200 on ebay these days.I'm not kidding.I'm lucky if I add an item to my collection once a year, will never ever pay the ridiculous prices asked for now!
My favorite example of the stereotypical eBay seller of "retro" items is a guy who had several dozen Atari 2600 "Pac Man" cartridges and listed them as "rare." I had a PDF of that listing and I've lost it over time.R@RE VINTAGE H2F NIB NOS L@@K RETRO BBQ XYZ ad naseumAggravates the shyt out of me. Mind, it's definitely not limited to our hobby. Last year I wanted to find a Jeep. Something old, not necessarily in good shape. The least expensive I could find within 200 miles of me was $4,200 and it needed serious work and wasn't even promised to drive away from the seller. Because, you know, Jeeps of that age are vintage (people can't even use the word correctly,) antiques, and so on.
Let’s not forget the megachip that’s listed for $200 and the vanilla, stock A600 that’s listedFor $500!
