new 600

[systmcrsh]

i dont like coming across as bragging, but thought id share how i recently scored a brand-new a600.

after my 600 crapped out on me during a show last october i started looking for machine/mobo replacements.

the prices on ebay in the US are so high its frustrating so i started looking on ebay.de, ebay.com.au, ebay.uk, etc.

not all international listings are listed on the US site. i came across an ad that looked good on ebay.de and used google-translate to get the details.

i have a friend in berlin and asked them that if the seller was unwilling to ship it to me in new york, if i could have it shipped to them and then shipped to me. they agreed + the seller agreed.

well, i won it on october 19th and i was pretty skeptical of the seller's statement that it was "brand-new", but i thought at least it'd be near newish.

anyways, it arrived today and it is absolutely stunning how new-like it is... its like museum quality or something. seriously its like brand-new!

i'd take some pics, but it'd look pretty silly sitting around all the other dirty {bleep} in my apartment haha.

anyway i actually replaced the motherboard and HD in my old amiga (see other threads. thanx lierbag!) so the new one will likely just stay packed away for some future catastrophie

here's the ebay listing i won btw: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280276306240

basically the point is, sometimes even if an overseas seller doesn't specify international shipping, or maybe you dont think they'd speak english... a simple message to them may score you a deal

[systmcrsh]

it didnt come with the original box + it is a german keyboard... neither of which are really any concern to me... it did however come with the original purchase reciept -- in german

im not sure precisely what "neuwertig" means, but they had %100 of over 1000 feedbacks so it was pretty compelling + germans can often be notoriously detail oriented