Are we became crazy?

[Ami_GFX]

Amigans always were a bit crazy. The early 90s Amiga scene had a wild side. Except for professional video toaster users, there was really no practical justification for spending the fantastic amount of money that a tricked out Amiga system cost at the time except that you liked it so much. The $450 or so I've put into my A4000 pales in comparison to what an A4000 with a Toaster and RTG card and a SCSI card would have cost in say 1995.

Are we so crazy? Yes and no. $910 for a Toaster Scan is as foolish as crazy. So much more cool Amiga gear you could have gotten for that money. For example, an A4000T Toaster Flyer system sold for $610 a few days ago. $300 left for pocket change. To whoever bought the the Toast Scan for $910, all I can say is fool, fool, fool.

Then again, I bought a 2632 memory expansion for well under $100 last year and one sold recently for around $260 so it looks like it wasn't such a bad investment and money well spent. Gold only went from $700 to $900 and ounce and most real estate around here has gone down in value, not up, so in an in investment sense--something to spend your extra money on--it doesn't seem so crazy. And so much more fun and interesting than most investments.

[Ami_GFX]

Yeah and this is what $610 got someone:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320245931192&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011

[Ami_GFX]

Usually they go for more here too--like around $800-900. Especially tricked out like this one with so much extra gear and all the documentation.

[Ami_GFX]

amigadave wrote:
I probably should have asked for more money for the items I recently sold here, or I could have taken them to eBay where I have bought a lot of my stuff and paid the going rate, but I like the community here and wanted to offer it to my "fellow A.org members" first at reasonable prices.  I think everyone has been happy with what they paid for what they got.

Very happy. The GVP HC+8 is a vast improvement over the A2091 that came with my A2500. Much faster, no more waiting 30 seconds to boot if the CD drive is empty and it works reliably with zip drives which means I can transfer files between my A2500, my A4000 and, through Winuae, my PC. Sometimes the small upgrades are the best and least expensive. I'm probably happier with this than whoever spent $910 on a Toastscan. Thanks Dave. :-)  :-)  :-)