What is this worth ?

[Amiga_Nut]

Just throw it up on eBay with low start and no reserve and you'll find out. That's what most "how much is this worth" requests are trying to get an idea of, how much can they ask when selling...

Worst advice possible.

Until ebay pulls their socks up and ban all those moronic and rule breaching bid sniper sites forget about that kind of 99p start no reserve horse feathers

All you get is people winning your stuff for less than the it's worth the effort of posting most of the time as nobody actually bids properly due to ebay slacking on disabling bid sniping. Yahoo auctions had a lovely 'floating' end time, bids in the last 5 minutes would extend the auction time by another 10 or 15...nice.

Stick it up for what YOU want with as much detail you can and an honest textual and pictorial representation as to its working condition. Then just add a 'Best Offers' function and stick it up for 30 days and see if anything happens.

[Amiga_Nut]

Well everything analogue is outdated these days sure, but technical ability (which is still superior to any Mac/PC card that deals with analogue live video) is not really linked to value.  

Point is if he puts it up for 99p it will sell for that whether it's worth more or not, which was really my point.

[Amiga_Nut]

Hey if people want to stay up until 3am to make a last second bid in person all credit to them  

But there are companies that do this for you, and for this to work you have to give them your user ID AND password and they remotely put in the last second bids for you automatically before the end of the auction. Clearly this is a breach of ebay member guidelines, but like you say ebay couldn't give a rats ass about sellers, they have hardly any effective competition these days.

I totally agree there is a lot of 'untested' junk out there, but at the same time it has become normal behaviour and even if I took 20 extremely high resolution pictures and combined it with a very detailed and honest description for something genuinely rare people still wouldn't bid properly. You don't go to car auctions or liquidation auctions and see nobody bid until the second before the auctioneer hits the desk for the third time with his gavel/hammer

Catch 22, which is why I rarely use ebay as a seller any more.

[Amiga_Nut]

it seems the recent trend is to put things up on ebay as

"tested 100%.....at least it worked 20 years ago when my brother propably used it"

I remember 3 years ago I sold a huge collection of Atari VCS stuff, genuinely it was working when last used and when the guy came to collect everything as I quickly set up the machine. Few weeks later he told me the actual 2600 had stopped working and could I help, given the amount of cash he paid I was happy to swap out the console and swap it with a spare of the same age/condition I had.

Thing is, if something goes for 10 euros I am in no mood to mess about because it actually stopped working, especially if it is a 30 year old VIC-20 or something

So it's still catch22 really.