Guidance on selling a A4000 and A3000

[spaceman88]

Listen, these folks are looking out for themselves and not for you or your hardware.  An A4000 with Cybervision, off the charts money wise, start the bidding at $500.00.  An A3000 may be the more valuable computer,  Start the bidding at $600.00. Make sure you  watch and see how many have viewed it and how many are watching it. Even if you don't get any bids.  It only takes one person who really wants it and believe me they will be out there.  
Regards, Brad Hansen

I sold my A3000 on Ebay a couple of years ago. I started the bidding at $99, it sold for $232. I should have had a reserve amount, but I thought the no reserve would drive bidding. I also sold an A4000/040, it did a little better, I forget the exact amount, but it was close to $400.

[spaceman88]

I'll let you know once I see it they boot and stuff



You misunderstood. The Amigas were mine. My GF's dad passed away a few years back and he had a bunch of stuff (mostly collector aviation / AVRO Arrow stuff) that we gave away to another person that was into planes who we thought would cherish it. Some of it was limited edition collector stuff with identifying numbers and we later saw those items on e-bay for sale.

Many people from outside of Canada will not be familiar with the Avro Arrow, but (depending on what it was) could be FAR more valuable than an Amiga 4000, even tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I understand why your "gun shy".

[spaceman88]

The Avro Arrow was such a fantastic fighter! I hear they are pitching it again as an alternative to the F-35? It would be amazing to see it get put into production at last.

There was some talk of an updated version about 4 years ago but I think it would have to be a complete fresh start with the amount of time that has past. Sort of like someone today using a 25 year old computer....oh wait, never mind :-).

[spaceman88]

I don't think so. I'm in Ottawa and googling Ottawa + Amiga Users Group I get a few hits but nothing that looks like a active group.


I found a 390682-01 which appears to be an Amiga Video to VGA converter so that opens up an opportunity to find a monitor that syncs to 15. Not sure how hard that is.

I currently have 2 Dell, 2 Acer, and 2 Samsung LCD monitors. Is the 15 for Horizontal or Vertical sync?

Is there a list of monitors somewhere that work? I remember finding monitors that sync at 15 was hard even during the Amiga peak.

The Dell ST 2320L works great on the Amiga. I bought mine about 3 years ago (from Dell Canada), there was also a few other Dell monitors that work.

[spaceman88]

The battery should be a blue or red cylinder right on the edge of the board by the RAM connectors. If it's a A4000CR, it would have a "coin type" battery. Less chance of a leak from these.

[spaceman88]

Thanks I'll try the double mouse button to check cards -- Phonepak software is installed but I don't have a landline to plug it into.

Lost a few days due to being out of town. I'm leaning towards Amibay over e-Bay -- hopefully by Thursday or Friday should figure out what a fair price is and  status of the 4000.

Only problem with Amibay is most of the users are in Europe. When I listed my A3000 on there several people wanted it, but when they found out the shipping costs they lost interest. If you list it there make sure you put a notice here as well for the max. number of viewers.