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Re: Uh, "Price Gouging?"
« on: September 22, 2012, 04:17:25 AM »
Amiga goods are priced the way they are for one reason: because sellers know they can be. It's a vicious cycle: reseller acquires an Amiga part, checks the last sold price for it (or gets a valuation from community members,) asks equal or more, leaves it on the shelf until some Amiga user desperate enough comes along to buy it for that price, the next seller to have that part in stock takes notice, asks slightly more than that, and so on...

The hell of it is, you can't just tell Amiga fans to boycott the sellers, because Amiga equipment does wear out and there is no other way to get replacements...oy.
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Re: Uh, "Price Gouging?"
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 04:26:23 AM »
Indeed. #4 especially - I've gotten tons of great stuff from people who just want to clear out their attics...
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Re: Uh, "Price Gouging?"
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2012, 09:28:04 AM »
Quote from: haywirepc;708987
Did anyone else ever go full virtual and then go back to the rabbit hole?
Actually, I started on emulators, and got into hardware from there - haven't touched UAE since I got back into Amiga hardware in 2010. I'm not going to bag on emulators, they're great for what they are, but for me they don't feel real, because I know that they're really not.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup