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Opinion's on selling an A500
« on: May 24, 2010, 06:47:28 PM »
I'm trying to clear out some room and plan on selling one of my Amiga 500s.  However, before I post it I want a couple of opinions.  I have an extra SupraRAM 500RX and was wondering if I should throw it in with the A500 or if I should sell it seperately.  I don't really care which will make more money but I wonder if there are some people who already have an A500 and may just want the SupraRAM.

Also, this A500 is basically a dumpster save.  It works well and is in good shape but I never got any Workbench disks with it.  I'd like to copy my other A500's disks and include the copies but worry about the legality of doing that.  However, all A500s were sold with Workbench disks and if those disks were lost, is it really that wrong to replace them with copies?
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Re: Opinion's on selling an A500
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 07:20:48 PM »
It's not wrong. The originals may have died. Sell it with copies.
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Re: Opinion's on selling an A500
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 08:01:58 PM »
If you don't care about how much money you're going to make, sell both together. The value of the RAM card will go down considerably when packaged with a heavy/bulky item.

If you want the most amount of money for your wares, sell the SupraRAM separate, take the computer apart and sell ALL of these items separately:

Keyboard
501 card
Disk Drive
Agnus Chip
Kickstart Chip
CIA's
Gary
Denise
Bottom of the case
Top of the case
Power supply
Mouse

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Re: Opinion's on selling an A500
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2010, 12:38:55 AM »
Quote from: save2600;560688
If you don't care about how much money you're going to make, sell both together. The value of the RAM card will go down considerably when packaged with a heavy/bulky item.

If you want the most amount of money for your wares, sell the SupraRAM separate, take the computer apart and sell ALL of these items separately:

Keyboard
501 card
Disk Drive
Agnus Chip
Kickstart Chip
CIA's
Gary
Denise
Bottom of the case
Top of the case
Power supply
Mouse

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:rofl: Somehow, I don't think it would be worth the time it would take to strip it down like that.
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Re: Opinion's on selling an A500
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2010, 12:41:46 AM »
You'd be surprised. A lot of truth behind that LOL!  :lol:   Try selling a few Amiga's to the community sometime...  :hammer:
 

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Re: Opinion's on selling an A500
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2010, 12:50:06 AM »
I think, if you wanna sell, you can sell separately, becouse many people are looking for any A500, you know becouse they are a "Nostagics guys", then just looking for any stock A500. And many others have A500  are looking for parts, accesories, peripherals, etc.. for A500s,  then you can sellit to thats other people.
Anyway, you can announce togehter, and put a note saying, you can sell separately too.

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