Our poor beloved Amiga, cursed by being so desirable and worth so much money. So many scammers on her tail.
I really appreciate this post as an Amigan and an Ebayer. over the past few months I have bid on a number of A3000s and lost on all of them and the majority of these bids--like 4 out of 5--generated phoney second chance offers. All of them pretty pathetic: Most had the same text and all had Ebay.co.uk on the header instead of Ebay.com--I'm in the US. The only really good one I got--one that could have fooled someone--was for an Atari Mega St that I had bid on the night before. There was just one problem: I had won that auction and had bid on it in a spirit of half drunken fun and was so shocked that I actually won the the auction that I immediatly emailed the seller my phone number and we worked out the details of payment and shipping over the phone. It was funny also because it wasn't for very much money--the auction price was just $100us. It was such a good fake that I reported it to Ebay and they responded within a half an hour telling me that the second chance offer on the auction I had won was indeed a fake. After reading your post, it looks like we should be wary of even genuine second chance offers.
I think I shall take it as a sign that I am supposed to keep my Amigas!!!
Retromania
I have considerd selling my first Amiga--an A2500--several times and fate has always interveaned. The last time was a few monthes ago. I had bought an A2000 Video toaster and had just won another one in absolutely pristine condition and the plan was to swap a few parts and sell the A2500 when I was done. When my new A2000 Toaster arrived, it had been severely damaged in shipping and was only good for parts and the motherboard and memory card went into my ailing A2500 and I started playing around with it and looking at all the great art I had done on it's hard drive and I had a complete change of heart and decided to keep my restored and upgraded A2500 and just sold the 1084s monitor that always drove me crazy and used the money to buy an A2320 Amber card so now it's almost as good as having one of the A3000s that I can't seem to win.
