The value of "real" Amiga hardware

[psxphill]

I've had to write off an A1200 and A2000 due to lack of affordable parts.

I sold my bare A1500 for around £100 a year ago on ebay. I had planned to upgrade it to A2500/30 spec, but it was just too expensive (and I got ripped off on amibay by a hacked account on an A2091).

[psxphill]

its a good investment imho. i bought a PIV new in 1995 and used it for over 10+ years,sold it for what i paid.. i cant complain..

Leaving money somewhere for 10 years and only getting back what you put in is not a good investment.
 
The inflation in the mean time has meant you're behind, you can justify it by the use you got out of it but that is hard to quantify.
 
Obviously if you bought an A2000 for a thousand dollars then selling it now is a bit of a come down. I paid £30 for my A1500 in the 90's, sold it for about £100 so I'm up on that.

[psxphill]

It is almost as if the sellers have agreed among themselves to ask ludicrous prices hoping to convince everyone that that is the new normal.

Sellers will look at the current price that people are listing for, because they don't want to let something go too cheap.
 
However because listings at a reasonable price get snapped up while listings at a high price just get relisted then there will always be more items listed at a price nobody is prepared to pay.