amiga ebay users are they stupid ?

[amigamad]

Ive been looking on ebay at scsi hard drives and have got a 9.1 ibm drive for £15.00, but small scsi drives of 500mb are being bidded on for much more just because they have amiga in the title .

This also happens for 2.5 inch hd and other stuff as long as amiga is in the title ,it just makes me wonder why people have to bid on such crap when bigger and better items sometimes make 3 times less.No wonder amiga companys can get away with it . :-?  :-)

[amigamad]

Not every Amiga user out there are power users

True but some sellers use the term amiga just to sell something they might end up being stuck with i didnt just mean hard drives .

Most things i have bought lately are from amibench so far a pcmcia network for 1 of my a1200,s a dead blizzard ppc which seems to work in the amiga i wanted to sell but not in my £5 a1200 and i am  now buying  a mediator pc board for a1200 .

I have thought of buying stuff cheap on amibench and putting it on ebay it would be easy money . :-)

[amigamad]

If you think there is a market for it, go for it! Just research before you jump into it. eBay buyers are fickle, even Amiga buyers.

I have done some research on uk ebay 040 cards for an a1200 fetch around £70 plus postage and 060,s fetch around £170 every 060 i have seen has sold for that much, also ppc cards fetch £170 i could have had one from amibench for a £110. A500 hard drives fetch about 40 pound and a phillips cm8833 mk2 monitor sold for 50 odd pound including postage i have one of these that i paid $8 pound for because it was cheaper than a scandoubler  takes more space though .

I am only thinking of the things which alwayas seem to make money cdtv,s seem vary a lot one week 3 made good money at the moment they are making next to nothing.

At the moment i have to sell some of my amiga collection due to to many machines my second pc the msi motherboard died so that will give me room for two ppc amigas towers when i get the second built one pc is enough. :-)

[amigamad]

I payed £20 for a 64 ss edo simm then sold it on amibench for £70 and some mug bought it, i miss those days  

I would like to find these  people i would make a fortune. :-D

[amigamad]

So you experienced guys guess it would be worth selling an original Commodore Amiga 4000/040 on ebay ? Would it be better to sell the system as a whole or sell the videocard and ethernetcard etc... seperately ? I know it sounds like blasphemy wanting to sell at all but to be honest, I'm not a gamer so I have little use left for the old girl. Anyway, I think any future for the Amiga is in the new systems.

Your better spliting it you should make more by taking the graphics and ethernet cards out. :-)

[amigamad]

Blimey! Analogic do brand new Apollo 1260/50 cards for £127.61 + VAT (£149.95). I wouldn't pay more than £80 - 90 for a second hand one!

But i think some users might not know you can buy amiga stuff new and think second hand is the only way to get something . :-)