Amiga a dying interest or ebay full of cheapskates?

[Amiga_Nut]

Because when a more or less working 2.5mb A1000 complete sells on ebay for £44 you have to wonder why.

I would expect a working A1000 motherboard alone to be worth this much but obviously it isn't or perhaps ebay is a complete waste if time.

[Amiga_Nut]

"More or Less"....what are you on about. It is either working or not working.

Ahhh it was an NTSC machine so you needed a 110/240v adaptor for the UK (or just swap the PSU inside). And a couple of the keys on the keyboard didn't seem to respond I think.

A500s I can understand going cheap, they are very prevailent on any day you search for them on ebay UK...but in the UK you'll see one A1000 every 6 months or so. More in Europe though true. It's not just the A1000 I saw an A3000 25mhz model go pretty cheap last month and all it needed was a keyboard.

Expansion wise the only difference is ECS Agnus and 2mb/1mb chip ram. Other than that they are identical pretty much.

[Amiga_Nut]

Maybe it's limited to OCS machines going for not much money then, I wouldn't sell a 2mb expansion for an A1000 in the EU for less then a 3 figure sum myself though. If it doesn't sell it's not like it will corrode or rot in my dry storage area.

A4000 always seem to be a premium, funny thing is the HD floppy drive is rarely 'tested' on those auctions in the UK.

Oh well good time for me to start hunting for a dead A1000 or A1010 for a donor FD drive and I always fancied an A3000 anyway so.....