FS: Blizzard 2060

[gklinger]

Kin-Hell wrote:

red's stuff is mostly second-hand & hard to find items. Amiga Kit's stuff mostly is new & more up to date items.

Peaches are best eaten when ripe.

You know what our two statements have in common? They're both completely irrelevant.

Making statements like this is missing the point whilst fuelling the bs.

I haven't missed the point. You lot are so busy with the demonizing that you've long since passed the point of being rational and have resorted to supposition, innuendo and the tossing of red herrings.

arkanoid   : I'm glad this isn't personal. :roll:

[ffastback]

So when was it a crime to sell stuff for high prices?

That was not what caused the issue that came up in this thread.

On a side note, everyone is free to sell whatever for the prices they are asking for.. Dont like it? Simply do not buy..

 

This was actually what the people arguing with red wanted to have happen.  Red interjected on that process publicly saying that the asking price was much too cheap, encouraging the seller to raise what he was asking for the hardware.

If Redrumloa wants to sell at his prices, let him.

 

Again the people who brought up issue with what he did had no problem with him in this regard.  For the back and forth of publishing personal emails in the thread, it even appears that one of these people was a happy prior customer. And in red's anger he even banned that person from bidding in the future.

If anyone also whines that Redrumloa takes over a good chunk of the Amiga market, why dont you hunt and buy out and sell your stuff the way you want?

 

While a couple people did voice this concern, it was not the people (from what I saw) that took issue with the pricing remark.  And I'm not sure that you should call people who do voice that concern whiners.  I think the consensus is most people don't fault red for charging a premium.  But they don't want him interfering with other transactions on this board in a possible effort to (or hell even innocently enough) jack prices in general is what I gathered, since he is a well known dealer and moderator here.  

But enough, cheers to Redrumloa on selling Amiga items and dealing in them. Im sure if it wasnt for him keeping it up, we would see the hardware go straight to the landfill. lol

I'm sure that would happen sometimes yes.  His ebay store does seem to have some interesting goodies.  And with an old platform like this its nice to have some options like his store to buy from.

[Trev]

I'm no fan of high prices, but I'd rather see Jim (or another eBayer) sell it for too much to an active hobbyist than see it go for too little to a collector/hoarder.

High prices won't last forever, though. Eventually, the "lucky" buyer will default on their credit card balance and leave the rest of us with the bill in terms of higher interest rates (assuming you carry balances and accrue interest--I don't). ;-)

[RRunner]

OMG - this whole thing is stupid and blown way out of proportion. It is like listening to a bunch of 5 yr olds {bleep}ing on the play ground - he said - she said... My children (10 and 7) are more mature than this dribble.

Quote: "Winning an argument on the Internet is like winning the special Olympics... in the end you are still retarded"

Ok... back to the {bleep}ing... keep it up... my 7 yr old thinks it is funny!

:popcorn:

[arkanoid]

RRunner: Your interwebs experience must be pretty dull if you never get into heated discussions now and then about stuff. And who's to say what's important and what isn't? Are you the Official Arbitrator of Intraweb Topical Debate, or something? If so, where's your badge? I demand to see it!   :-)

I think this particular topic is pretty topical, as far as Amiga-community related discussions go And after all this is an Amiga community website.

Eat your pop-corn and don't be such a spoil sport - you know you're loving it!   :-)

[ffastback]

Ok... back to the {bleep}ing... keep it up... my 7 yr old thinks it is funny! :popcorn:

You Canadians must have an odd idea of what makes good bedtime stories and popcorn inspiring entertainment!
 :crazy:  :lol: :-P

[SACC-guy]

@RRunner

You are so terribly wrong!!!
Several Special Olympics folks have disabilities.
(i.e. lost limbs, birth defects and such)
With full mental capabilities.
edit
Stephen Hawking could be in the Special Olympics!
end edit

And how do you judge your IQ?

This is statement is much worse then the bs on this thread.

I hope you rethink this sad, sad joke.

Michael Salcedo

[Kronos]

SACC-guy wrote:
@RRunner

You are so terribly wrong!!!
Several Special Olympics folks have disabilities.
(i.e. lost limbs, birth defects and such)

/me thinks your confusing the special olympics with the paralympics ......

[ZeBeeDee]

Kronos wrote:
/me thinks your confusing the special olympics with the paralympics ......

Just in case people don't know the difference between Paralympics and the Special Olympics ... The Special Olympics is for those who have intellectual disabilities, not physical ones.

Linky (Paralympics)

Linky (Special Olympics)

Here endeth the lesson for today  :-)

[RRunner]

SACC-guy wrote:
@RRunner

You are so terribly wrong!!!
Several Special Olympics folks have disabilities.
(i.e. lost limbs, birth defects and such)
With full mental capabilities.
edit
Stephen Hawking could be in the Special Olympics!


And how do you judge your IQ?

This is statement is much worse then the bs on this thread.

I hope you rethink this sad, sad joke.

Michael Salcedo

IQ is measured, not "judged".

Special Olympics is for people with mental disabilities.

Stephen Hawkings could not be in the Special Olympics. He is too short! (Actually he is too smart).

The only thing "bad" about my post was the use of the pollitically incorect term "retard".



Relax. It was a joke! I know of a few good web sites for Valium if you need some (that was a joke too btw).

:-D

[ffastback]

@rrunner

LOL!  For someone criticizing this thread and supposedly needless back and forth responses your continued posting in it is quite funny!   :lol:

[RRunner]

ffastback wrote:
@rrunner

LOL!  For someone criticizing this thread and supposedly needless back and forth responses your continued posting in it is quite funny!   :lol:

I got a new iPod Touch for Xmas. My first EVER Apple product. Any excuse to use it... even mindless banter on this thread! :-D

[jj]

Im really lost for words on this one.  Not seen hatred, bickering and general chidishness form everyone concerned on this level since the inital blue/red wars.

Thought we had on the whole put all that sort of thing behind us.  obviosuly not.

[ffastback]

lordef wrote: (in the other red topic that is now locked)

@Others; Look back at red's posts, 99.9% of them are genuinely interesting amiga posts. Once he's gone there will be a higher percentage of toss from the idiots who still like to bang on about A.inc next year, blue and red wars etc.

No one seems happy that he is leaving.  No one seemed to be trying to make him leave either.  Obviously he is pretty volatile right now, between his angry words, his banning folks, and now quitting the community or whatever.  But he was by no means driven out or anything.  People who were disagreeing with him have confirmed they don't want to see him go, have offered apologies, etc.  And he also had very vocal support from many folks in these threads.  He is a grown man.  This ultimately is of his own doing now and no one is celebrating that I see.  And he can always come back in an instant, either now, or whenever else.  In the meantime what is there really left to say?

[modrobert]

redrumloa wrote:
Waaay too cheap.

IMHO, if redrumloa was a cold hearted capitalist he wouldn't comment on the price here in the forum, just send an email with a bid to AllocVec instead. Seems to me this is more about helping, one seller to another.

PS:

I hope you're impressed with my post count.

[ffastback]

modrobert wrote:

IMHO, if redrumloa was a cold hearted capitalist he wouldn't comment on the price here in the forum, just send an email with a bid to AllocVec instead. Seems to me this is more about helping, one seller to another.

That logic only works if he was interested in buying that particular card at that time as a consumer.  Which he was not.  His actions were about keeping the going market value higher.  Since he sources in lots typically his maximizing of profit comes from the individual item sale market keeping its extreme premium.