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Re: Amiga a dying interest or ebay full of cheapskates?
« on: June 27, 2010, 08:32:00 PM »
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Last week, 10 bidders went after a not-fully-working A4000 .... $371.
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-4000-/150454774588?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307cdab3c
 
I bought a working one on eBay over a year ago for about $250.

I bought a fully reworked A4000D in mint condition for 300 euro's from Mad Cat.
This board was fully repaired with new caps and simm banks by Amiga-Digital.
Now that's quite a deal.
 
Amiga isn't a dying interest, but some people do ask insane prices.
So yeah, maybe I am a bit of cheapskate, but I'm not gonna pay anything more over 700 euro's for any hardware.
I do want a bit of secuity to see what I actually get for such amounts.
Wishlist: A3500, A2500UX
 

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Re: Amiga a dying interest or ebay full of cheapskates?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 07:10:23 PM »
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I think it is a combination of factors.
 
Interesting that a supposed Amiga "enthusiast" couldn't be bothered carrying away a whole system for a pittance at the car boot sale.
 
So it would appear interest must be sorely lacking.
There can also be family pressures:I just got a lot of C= goodies (someone else beat me to the Amigas) of a fellow who was under wife's ORDERS to get rid of that old stuff-I want my room back!
 
I think those who want an Amiga HAVE an Amiga (or two,or fifteeen).!
 
The ham radio classic radios also seem to be much lowered prices,the collectors must now have theirs so the demand is falling.
 
The current economy causes many to hesitate spending on non-essentials ,especially if a spouse will want to know WHY and HOW MUCH?

Well said :laughing:
I have a bunch of Amiga's now, where at the beginning of 2010 I had 2 A500's and a 1200.
 
Now I have 4 A500's, 4 1200's, 3 4000D's and 1 Micronik tower A4000CR.
And that's excluding Blizzards 1230 (2) + 1260, CF adapters, diskdrives, CF cards, kickstarts, power adapters, RAM/IDE cards and all other things I have bought.
So I think I have enough now, appart from the wish list, which has a Cyberstorm PPC on 1.
But I'm just going to wait until someone says, ok, I want hard cash and I match your offer.
 
If not, at the end of August it will then become a Radeon 5970 instead of Cyberstorm PPC.
Wishlist: A3500, A2500UX