Chubbyrain wrote:
I'm no jobless cheapskate. I'm just being realistic. I think people are confusing their love of Amiga with it's actual financial worth in 2007. I don't see the sense in paying premium price for rendundant technology and I won't. Would you pay $1000 for a 20 year old television? I think not. You'd go buy the latest one for that as you'd get more for your money.
I think people (you) are confusing their Amiga for some cheapskate TV. Believe what you want, but not all items that are old are worth the same value after a certain amount of time. It's ludicrous to compare a 20 year old television with an Amiga. Not only were the QUANTITIES of production different when those items were made, so right away the comparison can't be made one to one, but we're talking about totally different products with different utility and obvious different "fan clubs". Would you say a shiny door stop (made of rock) that is 500 years old should have the same value as a 500 year old hand-crafted door knob which is still usable today ?
Chubbyrain wrote:
Ebay is a free market and people can charge what they like for hardware (Even Dragonlady and her $699 A1200) but that doesn't mean the buyer has to agree. At the end of the day, something is only worth as much as someone will pay for it.
That's why prices are the way they are: because people are willing to pay for them, because to them an Amiga is worth that much. It's special. Get it? That's why we're here, because we feel special with an Amiga. Don't like it? Go away, instead of making us look crazy. Wait, wait. You're here also! Aren't you? Then you must be crazy too!
Chubbyrain wrote:
If you get someone with more money than sense then good for you. But don't expect that to be the norm. It's a buyers market.
Why do you assume to know people (buyers) which you've never met or have any clue about? What makes you so certain that they have more money than sense? And afterall, isn't that a tad-bit oxymoronic: people who have money are senseless, but then HOW did they ever make that money?
Without sense of value and worth of money, one can't easily make money unless 1) inherits tons of money (how often does that happen?) and 2) is a lucky S.O.B. and wins the lottery (even more rare)
People who have (made) lots of money have a lot of sensibility about money and the worth of money (not saying they're sensible overall, or not corrupt, etc)
Chubbyrain wrote:
Rembember, the average person in the street would just laugh at your Amiga computer and what you think it's worth. They can by their XYZ brand PC that'll do more for the same money. You can argue all you want about how much better than the PC the Amiga is, but a modern PC destroys a 1993 Amiga in every application you could put it to.
Here you go again comparing irrelevant things. Surely a 2007 PC is faster in many ways than _any_ Amiga, but surely one can make the point that the VALUE of an Amiga, to them, is MUCH higher than any PC, because of the nostalgia void inside of them that gets instantly filled and gratified by beholding such an old decrepid piece of hardware.
Please, before you make any comparisons, think of the logic. An average person buying a modern PC (for whatever reason, talking on Skype lets say) would _NEVER_ consider a vintage machine. Conversely, one average user who buys an Amiga computer would _NEVER_ buy it to do "modern tasks" (talking on Skype, using Flash video and YouTube, etc). Now there's an exception: an above average user buying an Amiga for "modern tasks", in which case this person is already aware that rare things cost, and especially the fastest of those rare things.
Chubbyrain wrote:
The only people really interested in buying your Amiga are those within the Amiga community. Do you really want to rip them off?
This is the only point you've made with merit. Do you (the seller) want the Amiga to proliferate even to the poorer classes of users, or not. That's a good philosophical question to ask oneself, as a seller, and I must say I'll have to think about this, so as to decide for myself what I should do when I sell Amiga items
Cheers
