Has everyone gone NUTS?

[McTrinsic]

I am one of the actually 37 freaks ordering the new Phoenixboards.

One of the members of the german board amiga-news.de organized the deal. The boards are being prepaid. So far, 5 have been delivered from Australia. But please be aware that both our "Project Manager" are pretty busy doing this deal, so they have no time spare (for organizing more boards, for example ).

That means, that the designer, Andrew Wilson, still has to do a lot to meet our  order. After that you should have no problem to order from him:

http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/sirius/phoenix.htm

Its a great piece of Amiga history!

Have fun,
McTrinsic

[Jburg96]

Last time I checked, e-bay is an auction website. Therefore, it is a bidding process. Highest bidder wins! Yes, there are shill bidders and overpriced items. My experience as a seller on e-bay has been about timing. Which equates to getting  the most money for your item. For example, an Amiga fan who doesn't network through websites like this one. Finds a chip or part that they need and its the only one listed at that time. Time is an issue for this buyer and Not money. They bid on it untill they win. How much money they end up spending in the end is their  business. Not yours.......Move on!!!

[Kinster]

Hopefully one or two of those nutters will buy some of my gear. I've just been made redundant from work and could use some beer tokens.

Find it here:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZaQ5fcinnsealach
 :-D

Andy K

[Jburg96]

That's funny!!!!! Based on your last post, lets hope you make some money???

[Kinster]

Loads of "watchers", not too many bids yet.
'tis early days though.  :-)  :pint:

[Nestor]

XEON 2 FOR 339

Look at the feedback, the guy bid on 2 of the sellers items and refused to pay.

Akiko wrote:
No this is what I call "gone NUTS!" http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3545&item=8171229232&rd=1  :-o

[FastRobPlus]

Jburg96 wrote:
Last time I checked, e-bay is an auction website. Therefore, it is a bidding process. Highest bidder wins! Yes, there are shill bidders and overpriced items. My experience as a seller on e-bay has been about timing. Which equates to getting  the most money for your item. For example, an Amiga fan who doesn't network through websites like this one. Finds a chip or part that they need and its the only one listed at that time. Time is an issue for this buyer and Not money. They bid on it untill they win. How much money they end up spending in the end is their  business. Not yours.......Move on!!!

Hmm.. I disagree. Something is very odd about a game selling for US$500-$1000 that you can still buy from one of the online dealers for less than it's original price. That's been the case with Xenon 2 and Krytal.

...Now Turbo or Mind Walker or Ports of Call or something like that... You can't just buy these online.  I can see those fetching a higher-than-new price.

I've mailed some of the winning biders of these super-priced auctions to see what motivates them to pay so much for a game.  I have yet to get a reply for any of them.

I agree is isn't my business what others pay, but I'm beggining to suspect something of a hoax going on:  Seller places rare-seeming collectable online, has other accounts bid the item up, and then the auction closes at an insane price.  Next, he lists the same item under a different account, and sells it for much less and watches as some legit buyers bid it up fairly high, having observed how high the last one sold, and thinking how fortunate they are to be getting a crack at buying the same title a bit cheaper.

By the way, Kristal made "Retro Gamer" magazine's "Acution Watch" section.  Thay called out that recent $1000+ auction and said that thier game collecting experts could find n oreason or precident for any Amiga game selling this high.

[Jburg96]

In reference to the game "Kristal" being sold for $1,000+. I think it's a combination of shill bidding and a buyer who has a lot of money to burn. Yes, There is some dishonesty and deceit going on within the e-bay community. But it's up the individual to use common sense. Research your sellers and buyers. If you have any doubt, contact e-bay.

[TjLaZer]

Anyone have the link to the game that sold for $1000?

[FastRobPlus]

I do not...

I do have the issue of Retro Gamer (vol 1 issue 10)where they mention the Krystal that sold for 367 pounds.  By my math that's around $700!  So I was wrong about RG saying it feteched $1000 - but I'm pretty sure there's a thread here where we really did see Krystal fetch $1000.

PS Tj:
Speaking of paying way too much for something...
I bought an Amiga 1000 system that looks to have a DKB Insider RAM board.  Once I get it, I'll let you know what the leads are connected too!

[Jburg96]

No. But there is one game that I would go nuts for. An NTSC version of the Bitmap Bros. game CADAVER. In the original box, 3.5" diskettes for the Amiga. Any sellers out there?

[K7HTH]

Jburg96 wrote:
No. But there is one game that I would go nuts for. An NTSC version of the Bitmap Bros. game CADAVER. In the original box, 3.5" diskettes For the Amiga... Any sellers out there??

Ahhhh.... the box! There is nothing finer than to have the superbly, irreplaceable, useless, ...box.

[odin]

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And what, dear sir, have you been inhaling :-?.

[Jburg96]

As a collector of Amiga games. The box is the next most important item. Along, with the manual and any registration cards that haven't been mailed. It's not my fault, your ignorant. Next, time use amiga.org the way it was intended to be.

[Jburg96]

WHA???