Make money with amiga

[Franko]

You CAN make money with the Amiga these days...

How... if you flog them on eBay, I've been battling it out with a "power seller" on eBay for the past three weeks now buying as many Amigas as I could always bidding against this guy who buys just about everything Amiga he can on eBay and then relists them at twice the price and he make his living from this...

How do I know... he emailed me on ebay telling me that this was his livelihood and he has to charge the ridiculous prices and postage that he does to make a living...

He's easy to spot has well over 17,500 stars and bids on everything Amiga on ebay, which is a shame for folk who are only looking for an Amiga for themselves as they end up being outbid and then having to buy them from him at his ridiculous prices and his overcharging on P&P...

It's cost me just over a grand over the past three weeks outbidding him on ebay but when I get all the stuff delivered and tested I'm gonna put most of them back on ebay to sell at a loss to folk who genuinely want them and make sure I don't sell them to him...

Some folk may call this crazy but I hate to see someone doing this and making genuine Amiga users pay through the nose cos this guy is a so greedy...

[Franko]

@ Cammy

Thanks Cammy, I'd rather be a Robin Hood than a Robbin B&$!&£D anyday...

@ Fitsteve

Didn't want to name the guy as he does make his living from it and I reckon anyone who looks for Amiga stuff on eBay knows about him, but to be honest his tactics of trying to outbid everyone and then the ridiculous prices he charges and his rip-off P&P costs really pisses me off...

I've sussed out how much he's willing to pay for certain things to keep his profit margin high and so will continue to outbid him until he eases of a bit and give genuine Amiga users a chance...

[Franko]

This guy is making money off of Amiga...
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/Complete-Commodore-CDTV-Games-Collection-/200575455712?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2eb33a91e0

And good luck to him I say...

With these things the way I see it is if folk are willing to pay a few quid to these guys for something like that then let them take their chances...

But to be honest why bother when once again they can found for free just by looking on the net and if you really want the original and it's box then you can usually find someone selling an old copy on ebay...

Again it all comes down to the companies & copyright owners not giving a flying feck about the Amiga anymore. They could if they wanted to re-release them but they wont as the profit margin wouldn't be big enough...

No point in the copyright mafia screaming blue murder over it if the companies & copyright holders don't care...

You could of course look for a second hand one on the like's of eBay if you really want the boxed original but then how many folk out there are actually selling them...

If it's Amiga software and it's not available to purchase easily and legally from anywhere then it it's high time we cut the BS and put everything online for free and let the few remaining Amiga users left in this world get some use out of it...

[Franko]

I'll have the A4000 030 for 2p please. I'm not being greedy and offering over 1p and not requesting a 040 or better.

On a serious note I want free P&P for 2p

On  a more serious note how can you refuse to sell to certain ebayers - isn't that against ebay's rules?

Sorry didn't buy any A4000s only A1200s and they'll cost a wee bit more than 2p...

Sod the rules... rules are made to be broken... it's kind of a pastime for me...

Wrote about this elsewhere here before but back when the A500s first came out in 1988 I started my own DTP Design & Printing business using two A500s and old Star 9 pin dot matrix printers...

Ran it for nearly two years before I got bored and made enough money to put aside to help with my retirement at age 37 back around 2001 when I had to give up work due to ill health..

Don't think I'd be able to compete these days though, as you can't  get hold of the printer ribbons anymore...

[Franko]

And whats wrong by living under a bridge..

Folk who live under bridges are a ruddy nuisance... :madashell:

They get in the way when you stagger home from the pub and need a pee and then complain cos you made their cardboard boxes all soggy...

[Franko]

Google emailed me a while back asking if I would like to enable Advert sharing on my You Tube vids, meaning every time an advert is viewed before my amiga vids I would get 0.00.1 of a penny, and maybe One full penny if the user actually clicked on them, put simple maybe in a 100 years time I might of eared one shiny Pound from google for my vids, needless to say I've declined for now. But their is money out their to be made.

Had to laugh when I got the same message on YouTube to "enable revenue sharing" for this one... :lol

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I must be the only person in the world who could make money off Doomy... :roflmao: