Person claims he wants pictures of my Amiga 1000 to use in a book

[techie]

Hi all,
I just received a rather peculiar email from a guy named Michael (from Germany) asking for high resolution images of my Amiga 1000 for a book he's writing :inquisitive:  
Now call me paranoid, but I can't help but think this might just be a scam to get images to use on eBay or Craig's list  :-?

Has anyone else here received an email from this person? Is he really legit? or just another in a long list of Amiga scammers  :-(

Thanks,
Techie

[techie]

Not sure exactly :-?
He just says that he saw the picture of my A1000 here in the gallery.

[techie]

Matt_H wrote:
Yeah, surely someone from a1k.org would be easier, as it's a German forum and the A1000 part is in the title of the site. Right?

Yeah I have to agree with you a1k.org would seem to be the more logical choice.

Sign an NDA with him to get a copy of the manuscript to see if it's legit! :-)

 :lol: the sad thing is that's probably a really good idea :-)

[techie]

McVenco wrote:
I too received a message from this guy Michael, asking if he could use the image of my (now BinoX's) A2000 from this site. For whatever reason he might want to use it, I still find it very cool that someone ASKS for permission these days. Usually people do a google search these days and grab what they can find without giving a cr*p about copyrights..

From the sound of the message he seems completely for real, so I happily gave permission to use my image. It's not that I could have made a lot of money with it anyway

That is true, I mean if he really was a scammer you'd think he could come up with something better to ask for then pictures of an A1000.

I mean come on, how much could he really get off eBay for it? Maybe a hundred bucks or so? Multiplied by however many times a person could get away with never really shipping it before people caught on I suppose...

Hmm, I'll have to think about it some more now.

Thanks for all the input so far guys :-)

[techie]

guru-666 wrote:
I agree, what kind of scam would require a 300 dpi picture? Just say , yes or no and save the drama!

This wasn't meant to be drama :huh:
I really just wanted to see if the guy was on the level or not and I figured this would be the place to ask.

In any case I've decided to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and send the pictures. Thanks to everyone for the help :-)

[techie]

Well, I'm certainly no photographer but I think these photo's  turned out okay :-)

A1000 Pic 1

A1000 Pic 2

A1000 Pic 3

A1000 Pic 4

(Note: These are 800x600 PNG's but the finale pic's were 1024x768 300dpi TIF's)

[techie]

Thanks  :-)
I just wish I had a monitor that matched it. Mine is pretty yellow  :-(

[techie]

adz wrote:

1024x768 is nowhere near enough res for publication.

That's Strange, because that's all he asked for  :-?

1024x768 300dpi TIF