Fair prices

[redrumloa]

@Gavilan

eBay prices are not overpriced prices, they are a true gauge of fair market value. If you want to sell locally for a "fair price", I'd say look at ebay prices and sell for 20-30% less. it saves you eBay, PayPal fees, time and headache while you are still not getting corn-holed.

[Gavilan]

Thanks a lot for the tip Red....you are 100% right...

Well, i didnt mean "overpriced" on ALL and EVERY item...but maybe on some items (how odd, they are always the items I want to buy!!  :-D )

But i really find a lot of bargains also there...true...

thanks again!

Sebastian

[Firedawg]

by redrumloa on 2008/10/29 10:29:50

"while you are still not getting corn-holed."

               :laughing:  

[countzero]

one more thing I would add ... cybervision 64 is a better card than cybervision 3d (unless 3d has scandoubler, which is a 16 bit scandoubler anyway).

[darksun9210]

aha... personal preference... that old chesnut :lol:

[recidivist]

 A fair price is that agreed to by a willing seller and a willing buyer!



 
 There is little doubt that RIGHT NOW old Amiga hardware is high priced;and this reflects the fact there are more would-be buyers than available hardware.Really the same for the NEW items as well.

 From MY wallet's point of view,much of the Amiga goodies I want are overpriced;but then so is a new car.

Small production runs are more expensive per unit.Look at the Mediator and similar products:the board that lets us use cheap,plentiful,standard PCI cards itself cost as much as many ready-to-use complete Windows home systems.See your local Walmart,Best Buy,or whatever the big retailer is in your area.

Windows hardware is cheap because it is made in huge quantities in Chinese factories.If someone were to finally have the license and backing to order up a new run of  a 1000 PPC CPU  cards selling in the $200 range for the existing Amigas  I believe they would be snapped up.

IDEA for those smarter than me:a small board with just the circuitry needed for one of the cheap Sonnet PPC MAC upgrade CPU cards to do the same job in an Amiga.

It's kind of silly how much some of us,including myself,have spent just to have something different.

[darksun9210]

but then if this is your hobbie, what you enjoy, what you do to wind down, chill out, whatever, who can put a price on that sort of thing?

god knows i've spent much more on cars and car parts than i could if i'd have gone to a local dealership and bought the cheapest p.o.s. thing they offer.
but now for example, swapping a head gasget doesn't scare me, or cost me £500 in labour charges down the garage.
kinda the same for audio equipment too. as a result i have learnt about all kinds of things that i wouldn't have even known about otherwise, but it's cost me more than a £30 mini "hifi" system from argos  :lol:

[Darrin]

What type of 040 PPC card is that?  I'm looking for a CPU card for my A4000 with extra RAM on board (I have the CBM 040 25MHz with nowhere to add RAM).

You could even mail it to my work address in Brazil, but from what I've seen of the Brazilian postal system it would be safer to send it directly to the USA.   :-D

[terminator4]

@Gavilan
"All i needed was a reference to know how much could i sell some of my Amiga items, realistic prices, not eBay overprices...
And because im selling the stuff to local amiga users (Argentina), so i dont want to rip them off, but to offer them a fair and realistic price for the items..."

Ebay is not a ripoff, it's a fair market price.  Its a realistic price for hardware, a lot of which hasn't been produced in years.  If you're looking for bargains you're going to need to really look hard.  And if you're reselling, then thats even more of a case (I mean you won't be able to buy stuff dirt cheap and resell it in bulk quantities).
no offence in any of what I state, just stating the facts.

[Kin-Hell]

Gavilan wrote:
@Kin-Hell: dont get me wrong please. Im in a very delicated financial situation, and need to sell some Amiga stuff in order to pay all my debts.

All i needed was a reference to know how much could i sell some of my Amiga items, realistic prices, not eBay overprices...

And because im selling the stuff to local amiga users (Argentina), so i dont want to rip them off, but to offer them a fair and realistic price for the items...

Sorry if i made some of you feel umcofortable about this, it was not my intention

Sebastian

Not in the Slightest Sebastian. Encouraging to think you have some chivalry about having a clear out.
Please do consider the post by recidivist & redrumola. -
Anything in this World is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

Best of luck fella!  :-)

[terminator4]

@Gavilan
"Well, i didnt mean "overpriced" on ALL and EVERY item...but maybe on some items (how odd, they are always the items I want to buy!!  )"

I know  :laughing:  same way i'm watching Red's amiga 4000T and thinking jeez maybe i can buy it for less than 1000 and it turns out bummer way higher already.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=400004382938
still 3 days to go.  and i'm not the only one that wants it. :-P
I was interested in this machine for CPU consideration mostly, as I got my A4000 for $650 (sure makes it look like a bargain now, if i'm desperate b/c i need bread to feed myself this is a nice investment) :-D

[persia]

Don't feel bad about the hyper-inflated prices.  Nothing you can do about them, it's a collectors market.  A few years ago I took pity on someone and sold them an item at a realistic price.  A fortnight later it was up on Ebay and sold for a hyper-inflated price.  

[save2600]

I believe when people talk about certain Amiga peripherals as being "overpriced", they are attaching something of a value to cost ratio here. I know I certainly do - which is why I will not pay $500+ for an '060 card for my desktop A1200. Would I pay $300? Probably. And then do *what* with it? Play some ancient 1st person/3D games a little smoother? Watch your icons load up quicker? Or $100 for a MicroGrafx AGA card that did not work w/ PAL signals and progressive scan modes. Glad I was able to get *most* of money back out of that deal. Most though. NOT all.

In the end, as other members have mentioned, this *is* a hobby. Hard to rationalise what we end up paying for some of this stuff out of context.  People/dealers/Jim(RedRum) have to remember also that there are many more ePay users with more dollars than sense. Especially these days. Get the "good" while it's still going because it ain't gonna last. The marketplace HERE is going to be different than the market place is on ePay as it is on Usenet's c.s.a.m. group. And then there are those blasted exchange rates that fluctuate more than any politicians integrity - which will forever muck up the $ to £ (or whatever) values.

In the end, my Amiga stuff is "priceless" to me. Priceless in cases like this happen to have expensive monetary values associated with them. It's not logical to feel this way, nor is it supposed to be   :-)  

[weirdami]

persia wrote:
 A few years ago I took pity on someone and sold them an item at a realistic price.  A fortnight later it was up on Ebay and sold for a hyper-inflated price.  

They're dead now, though, right? :madashell:

[Kin-Hell]

weirdami wrote:

persia wrote:
 A few years ago I took pity on someone and sold them an item at a realistic price.  A fortnight later it was up on Ebay and sold for a hyper-inflated price.  

They're dead now, though, right? :madashell:

But with "Sh1ts" like this in our society, that's why you get the sh1t!  ;-)

[terminator4]

I guess we all wish you could buy amiga gear as cheap as some of the apple stuff...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-PowerMac-G3-PC-WORKING_W0QQitemZ390003032936QQ :-D