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Re: Do resellers bother you?
« on: April 29, 2012, 06:13:09 PM »
While the sales bother me...
It's not the sellers...
If they can sell them for those prices, that's the market..

But it drives me crazy that people PAY those prices!  :-)
I'm thinking these are the people who answer SPAM e-mails maybe?  

As for an "antique?"
I figure if I was alive when they made it, it's not an antique..
I'm old, but I'm not THAT old...

Some of these things may be collectible, but not antiques..
IMHO

Heck, I just (in the last year or so) bought a "new" Accelerator and an MP3 player for my Amiga 1200...
There's nothing "historical" about those...

That's all for current fun...

Personally, I've sold several Amiga items for less than I could have.
I bought a RAM card a bit ago.  Had it for about 8 months, and the ACA came out.
So I sold it to a guy who was just getting into his Amiga, but couldn't afford an Accel/RAM card.  I sold it for less than I paid and less than I could have got for it..
I'd had fun with it, and it was going for a good cause...
But, I don't expect everyone to do that...
And I don't get mad when people don't.

To each his own...

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Re: Do resellers bother you?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2012, 04:04:41 PM »
Quote from: Vlabguy1;691161
Doesn't bother me at all.  If the seller is asking an unrealistic price then it won't sell that is his or her problem.

But that's the problem.  Sometimes it does sell..
Someone will pop in, with disposable cash and no research, and pay the crazy price..

And while that's good for the seller, for weeks after that, everyone else thinks that that item (or anything related to it) is actually worth that, and prices go crazy!!!!  :pissed:

:D

I remember a decent Apple II setup was selling, and it had a game in a plastic baggie with it..  Hmmm...  Yep, it was Akalabeth..
So the system sold for CRAZY (but realistic Akalabeth) money..  No biggie..
But, for weeks, all (Ok, not ALL, but for the purpose of this story, it is) Apple II systems were being listed with crazy prices...

That said, that's the thing about e-bay.  But you're also likely to get something for less than it's worth there... (You just have to be watching when they are posted and hope for BINs)  Or, you can get lucky when people misspell / mislist the items...

So, in the long run, it's all good..

But if it's something I want, that is going for more than I want to pay (which is likely, as I'm a cheap bas....), then it bothers me..  :D

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Re: Do resellers bother you?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2012, 03:46:18 PM »
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But at the end of the day, people have the right to purchase hardware at sensible prices.

Do they?
Not sure I ever thought of that as a "right."

It's great when it happens..
And, overall, the free market tends to keep it basically in line....

But, unless there is price fixing or public interest issues, I don't think that's a right.

desiv
Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1230/28 - 4G CF, MAS Player, ext floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 500 w/ 2M CHIP and 8M FAST RAM, DCTV, AEHD floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 1000 w/ 4M FAST RAM, DUAL CF hard drives, external floppy.