Ebay fun

[TjLaZer]

Sigh

[x56h34]

It would have been OK if it were one of the few 256MB capable Fastlane cards, with the latest SCSI firmware and card revision, however since this is the standard, crapola version...$60USD maximum should be the price. :-)

[Jeff]

Can't a burned eprom upgrade make it so?  Not that that would make it worth $425.00 either :-).

[x56h34]

@Jeff:

I'm not sure if those are eproms or custom chips on the Fastlane that need to be replaced. :-?

[mikrucio]

holy crap!

[Oliver]

Hmm, don't think the market is quite that inflated.  Bit of wishful thinking going on there.  I don't think one of those will make a hell of a lot of difference to someone's computing power.

[Zac67]

It's most probably a PAL or GAL that needs to be swapped.

[Hyperspeed]

Yeah I noticed that too, pfff!

Some French dude is also trying to sell a Blizzard 1240 for around 200 USD...

And who's got the 300 USD Picasso-IV going, that's a bit steep even for such a good board.

[AmiDude]

$425.00?! For that amount of money (or even less)
you can buy yourself a CyberStorm/060 MKIII with 128MB!

Hyperspeed wrote:

And who's got the 300 USD Picasso-IV going, that's a bit steep even for such a good board.

I sold my spare P-IV to an AO dude for only €150,00
 :-)

[justthatgood]

Woohoo, that's eBay for you!!!!

HeeHee.  Reminds me of the time back in 2000 that I picked me up a little PowerMac 7100, and the local computer shop said it was going to be like $300 for a motherboard.  I looked at the guy and trucked my butt to eBay. :lol:  I had one guy that was going to charge me like $160 one, and then I found someone selling one for $13 with shipping.

But I guess if someone is going to buy something, keep pitching coins into that wishing well.

[Argus]

It is a bit depressing to see all the outrageous prices on eBay.  I wonder if eBay University has a special course on jacking up Amiga hardware prices...sure seems like it.

I, for one, am not buying from these 'chop-shop' Amiga resellers anymore.

[justthatgood]

No eBay Uninversity has a special class in buying a company that has one of the worse payment systems in the world, terrible customer service and all.

Also they have those classes in how to jack up royalties and fees for auctions, as if they aren't going to get enough money off the auctions already. Seriously, does it really cost that much bandwidth to have an auction heading in bold.

I think the prices go back to what I've said before.  About people playing in the emotions of the Amiga user base.  Quite a few people a very very religious when it comes to their Amiga stuff.  I'm okay with some dealers that have good quality stuff and would be able to give some warranty, then a little bit of a higher price would be okay,  but come on.

[JaXanim]

Maybe they think Ted Danson will see it.
Maybe stuff like this is accruing an antique value?
Maybe somebody who wants this and can afford it will buy it.
People pay hundreds of times this price for a single postage stamp. So what.
Why do eBay's Amiga selling prices cause so much indignation? He'll either sell it or he won't.

JaX

[K7HTH]

JaXanim wrote:
Maybe they think Ted Danson will see it.
Maybe stuff like this is accruing an antique value?
Maybe somebody who wants this and can afford it will buy it.
People pay hundreds of times this price for a single postage stamp. So what.
Why do eBay's Amiga selling prices cause so much indignation? He'll either sell it or he won't.

JaX

Well put!

The loudest expression for so-called 'inflated' prices is for one to simply keep his money folded.

[justthatgood]

@Jax

Hey, I can't hate on people.  I'm all for people getting the most out of their hardware (finacially or performance wise.)

Personally myself, I wouldn't have prices that high, because you have to pay so much to eBay in regards to there extortion like listing fees. I normally listed stuff to sell. Stuff don't make money sitting in a box.  Other then that I'm just making idle chat, because I have no job and am bored.