Amiga 4000 Desktop for sale

[Ami_GFX]

You sold it for about what it's really worth on the current market. I paid a little over 300 for mine about a month ago--stock 040 with a video toaster card that didn't work. Every now and then things go nuts on Ebay and you get a lot more than something's really worth and sometimes you get something for a lot less than it's worth. Not everybody operates like Doomy. I just sold 2 1084s monitors and put a reasonable buy it now price on both of them and got my money fast and clean. I also listed with them an Atari Megafile drive that needed a new hard disk with a buy it now price of $40 and a minimum bid of $10. Someone bid on it which negated the buy it now price and guess what? It just sold in a flurry of sniping for $43. If the original bidder hadn't been so cheap and realized I wanted about what it it was worth for it and bought it, he would already have it shipped to him.

Yeah, you could have put a buy it now price of $350 and maybe it would have taken a little more time to get it. But you choose a selling strategy of low price fast cash and got it.

I wouldn't take any advice from Mr Doommastah. His feedback is screwing him up--yes, the Ebay feedback system does work-- and he's had a hard time selling things on Ebay right now. He had to do away with his 10 or more feedback requirement on the A4000 auction he just had in order to find a newbie buyer and I noticed he had to relist the zip ram he stripped from his A3000 several times and lower the price to 19.99 in order to sell it--below market rate in other words. :idea:

[Ami_GFX]

I feel that people like him are ruining the retro-computer market in favor of money in his own pocket.

It happens in every collectors market where there's money to be made. First saw it happen at about age 13 as an obsessed comic book fan. The good thing is not everyone sinks to that level. Some of us just want to have fun and make ourselves and others happy. And there are a lot of cool and fun things out there--Amiga and otherwise--that won't cost you nearly as much as Doomy's A4000.

[Ami_GFX]

A fairly nice A4000D with a DVD burner installed and a broken keyboard just sold on Ebay for $207 this morning. You didn't do that badly

[Ami_GFX]

Doommaster just relisted his A4000 for $500 buy it now so it looks like the first deal fell through. I reiterate, I wouldn't take any advice from this guy on how to sell your Amiga stuff on Ebay. Yours and the one that went this morning sold in the range they should sell for. I'm also a seller with 100% positve feedback and it is a real asset on Ebay. Doommasters negative feedback is slowly strangling his Ebay business.

[Ami_GFX]

Err, Yeah I'm a little more advanced on selling Amiga stuff on eBay, along with other stuff

I didn't mean to demean you in any way as an Ebayer, I was commenting on Doommaster who has just relisted his A3000 zip rams that he can't sell for 19.95.

I became an Ebay seller due to dire financial straits--dead car and I needed to buy a new one fast and the happy circumstance of my neighbors setting up a wifi system whose range extended to my house which gave a stable internet connection at home after years of dragging my wifi laptop around different hot spots and I'm very grateful to Ebay for giving me the means to get me out of the hole I was in and sell a lot of stuff I didn't need in order to buy things I did need like a car. And things are much better now and I can actually permit myself the luxury of buying rare and interesting things on Ebay like Amigas. And with this perspective of Ebay as a financial parachute, I'm not about to risk my feedback by buying something from someone like DoomMastah who could give you a negative on the slightest whim.

You sold an A4000 that you weren't using for a reasonable price and the buyer might actually use it and give it some life and maybe even create something interersting with it.