Amiga 3400 prototype on Ebay

[leewebb]

"Well it finished at an impressive (I think anyway) $809.99. (About £436)"

Tell me about it - lost the bugger by a measly $10 !!!

:-(

[odin]

doctorq wrote:
Yesterday I had to pay 25 EURO for making a bank transfer to Germany for a 200 EURO item.

Ah yes, if only you stubborn Danes had joined the EMU :-D. I love it, transferring money to Germany etc. costs me exactly 0,0 EUR and it gets there in 2 or 3 days tops.  8-)

[Ilwrath]

Jope: LOL.. I wouldnt say that I havent experienced a negative balance. I just keep almost nothing in there just in case. If Paypal were to take $200 from my acct and I only had $10 or $20, my bank would cancel that withdrawl and they would get nothing. It hasnt come down to that though..I havent been burned *yet*.

Yeah, but then they turn the debt over to a credit collections agency.  So you can either pay up the difference, or have your credit history permanently fux0rd.  With the costs of getting a lawyer to sort out your credit history, it's cheaper to pay up.  F***kin' criminals, PayPal are.

[BoingBoss]

Now you guys see why I do not accept PayPal, it sucks!

I only accept CASH or a POSTAL money order, from a US or Canadain Post Office, as payment for the items that I sell on eBay.  Buyers outside the USA have to mail CASH.  I have never had a problem with this and have always gotten paid.   :-D

[BoingBoss]

Hi Oli_hd,

Well it finished at an impressive (I think anyway) $809.99.

I would never pay that much for an ugly piece of crap that does not even come with a top.  I guess it just shows how stupid some people are.

Now if it was the very first Amiga 1000 computer ever made, still mint in a mint box, then yes, I might have paid $800 to $2000 for it.

[Ilwrath]

I would never pay that much for an ugly piece of crap that does not even come with a top. I guess it just shows how stupid some people are.

Not really.  I think it probably would have been a smart investment.  Early Apple prototypes can now sell in the range of $5,000-$10,000.  There's no reason to think that in another decade that prototype wouldn't bring a similiar figure.  5-10x return on investment, plus posession of a historically significant Amiga artifact seems pretty smart to me.