Yeah, it's crazy... But not really any more crazy than any other collectors. There are three classes of people driving up prices... We just have a few different groups that look for different items and they don't understand each other.
1) Nostalgia gamers -- They buy up the A500, 600, 1200, CD32 that they wanted/had back in the day. Typically they want a nice rig, but something that is highly usable (not tricked out to the point that it can't play games). In a bidding war for an item, they're likely to be the first to drop out. They're fairly oblivious to the fuss over high-ticket items, as what they want are the fairly common rigs of the day.
2) Actual Amiga Users -- They have the crazy custom A1200, A3000 and A4000 towers, CSPPC/Blizzards, Mediators, etc. They use them, and are kindred spirits and helpers to group 1 and call group 3 crazy, and hate them for driving up the prices on stuff they want to use.
3) Collectors -- These are the people who wanted that high-end Amiga back in the day. Now they have the means get it, and the price tag doesn't scare them that much. They don't have a lot of plans to use the machine besides just the joy of putting it together and occasionally firing it up for some silly thing or another, just to keep it in working order.
Groups 2 and 3 clash a lot, because they want a lot of the same items.
The collectors can't understand why someone would seriously want to use an Amiga as a main computer. They think it's insane!
And the users can't understand why someone would want to spend that much money on something they won't use much. They think it's insane!
Hence, you get posts like this, asking if we're crazy. I don't think we are, we just don't understand each other... :lol:
