Possibly closing up shop, any dealer interest in our stock?

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It's no secret that the Amiga market is very weak. It is also no secret that my primary business partner Cybereye never wanted to enter the market in the first place. As many of you will recall we actually exited the market before we were to launch, and ended up reversing it and going forward anyhow. Despite growth, albeit extremely slow growth, we've yet to hit profitability after 1 year.

For love of the platform, I'd love to march forward continuing to add products. But honestly it probably end ripping the company apart. How can I justify investing so much time and resources to CE when we KNOW profitability of other ventures?

Anyhow I'm not here to whine, just being open as I think I always have been. We are considering ceasing all classic products, we'll see. In the meantime I'm willing to take inquiries on a full stock buyout. We are a brick and mortar company, but this market is more suited for a bedroom operation. I'll take serious inquiries from either established companies or individuals in the US. Only serious inquiries though, for full or near full buyout inquiries only. Prices will be discussed at a later time but please don't bother unless you actually have money (in multiple thousands) in the bank;-)

PS. No worries to our current customers. We will continue support as needed if we do pull out.

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Sorry for the slow follow up, been crazy busy:-o

You know what? You guys are great. The kind words from Wayne and all the users here are very much appreciated. That's one thing about the Amiga market, overall it's very reasonable and appreciative. Selling ANYTHING else on eBay has been a potentially hazardous experience, with the notable exception of Amiga items. I only have been burned by one Amiga customer in recent memory.

We havn't pulled the plug yet BTW. We've discussed it, but honestly we havn't had a single serious inquiry about our inventory. At very least we'll continue with a zombie march for a while. Our stock on certain items is quite large, so at least until we thin our stock out a bit we'll be around. :-)

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@Velcro_SP

You've actually hit on a very key point here.

I see you post here on amiga.org often but haven't noticed you on the other boards.

Well yes and no. As far as just posts go, my posts to ANN and Mob have tapered off lately, but AFAIK I'm still in the top 20 posters on ANN. AO is my favorite site for a few reasons, mainly because it's the last stronghold for classic users. Other sites seem to have gone quite on classic talk. Shame. I post news and the odd forum post to other sites, but i don't want to over do it just for free advertising.

Posts are just one thing though, that in and of itself is usually not advertising. Banners OTOH are. Wayne, bless his heart, has made banner advertising easy and afforable on Amiga.org. AW.NET has an exclusive deal with Hyperion, no other companies may buy banners. ANN is not accepting any more banners. MOOB AFAIK doesn't do it at all. I thought I had a major deal with EAB that was going to be far reaching, but oddly they stopped responding to my emails altogether. Where does this leave me? Pretty much Amiga.org only for my advertising.

While I'm at it a few people asked this question..

You could try to sell some PPC boards for Genesi or Eyetech. Maybe there is a way to do this without expending a lot of capital to get in the boards, I don't know.

I'm not going to get into the why, but I refuse to carry either solution at this time. I have gotten very close to approaching one of them, but I'm still reluctant. One is tempting, the other has pretty much lost all interest to me as it seems to be commercial suicide. I've not closed the door completely on it.. We'll see..

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Vincent wrote:
Mind you, think about all the extra time you'll have once the shop is closed.  You'll be able to spend it all on here :-D

Oh I'll be here for quite a while:-) Well, uh.. not this weekend coming up..

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Final show!! It's gonna kick major a&&!! :evil: I forsee whiplash in my future :lol:

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