Lets talk crap about the thevintageamigan!

[Tension]

Vamigan???

[DoogUK]

I bought an A2000 accelerator from him...it took a month to get here but arrive it did...and in extremely good working order.

[mfletcher]

I bought an A4000 from him a year ago, arrived promptly and works fine.

Later on, one of my workbench disks became corrupt and I emailed him asking if he could send me a replacement, and he did, no issues whatsoever.

Im sorry to see that people have had issues dealing with him, I found it very surprising to see that his Ebay acct has been cancelled. I can only postulate right now that he's going through some issues offline that have prevented him from completing his orders in a prompty manner. Bad Economy and all that.

[TheGoose]

Wouldn't it be cool if you could hire like an ebay ninja to go take care of {bleep} like this for you?

ebay ninja WTF143, do you understand your objectives?

1. locate and destroy thevintageamigan AKA Doommaster
2. recover special object: buster v11
3. report back to home base
4. disappear

I think after i get laid off this is what I'm gonna do.
Yeah ebayninjas.com , Now just gotta find me some ninjas.
 :inquisitive:

[mfletcher]

I dont think VintageAmigan is an alias for Doomy. For one thing, when I bought the A4000, it wasnt located in Beaverton, Oregon.

On a Doomy note, anyone noticed that his RetrogeekComputers site is down? Forgot to pay his hosting bills or did the law finally catch up with him?

[X-ray]

Vamigan isn't Doomy.
And as far as I know, it isn't a he it is a she.
I had a good transaction with Vamigan last year, so maybe this is a clone?

[iconoclaST]

RetroGeek mostly deals on craigslist nowadays with Atari ST and Amiga stuff. I noticed he was trying to sell old Chinon floppy drives out of Amigas for $180 or so... When I questioned him about it, he was extremely rude and started swearing at me left and right and insulting me, calling me a "cheap {bleep}" and such.

He seems to have been somewhat of a regular poster for a while on EAB, and it doesn't seem that he was well respected there either. The guy's a jerk, and he should be lucky I moved away..I used to live no more than a stone's throw from Beaverton. (Though it's very likely that I'll move back to the Portland area within sixth months, so if so, consider me a ninja for hire)

I also once offered him $700 for an A4000/030 on Craigslist, plus a Mega STe, and he yet again was rude, and said that my offer was a waste of his reading time, and that he was planning to sell it to someone "serious".

If I dig deep enough, I might be able to come up with his phone number and address, as he was trying to do a deal with me in person once...if I find it, I'll be more than happy to mail the guy a box of my solid excrement on a cracker.

[Pyromania]

@iconoclaST

Info is as easy as pie to find.


http://www.aboutus.org/RetroGeekComputers.com

[LoadWB]

Pyromania wrote:
@iconoclaST

Info is as easy as pie to find.


http://www.aboutus.org/RetroGeekComputers.com

The address might be right, but
that's not his phone number.

[ZeBeeDee]

WHOIS information for: retrogeekcomputers.com:

[whois.tucows.com]
Registrant:
 George Campbell
 18010 NW Tara Street
 Beaverton, OR 97006
 US

 Domain name: RETROGEEKCOMPUTERS.COM


 Administrative Contact:
    Web Hosting, Lunarpages  hostmaster@lunarpages.com
    100 East La Habra Blvd.
    La Habra, CA 90631
    US
    +1.7145218150
 Technical Contact:
    Administrator, System  hostmaster@lunarpages.com
    100 E. La Habra
    La Habra, California 90631
    US
    +1.7145218150


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 17-Jan-2008.
 Record expires on 01-Feb-2009.
 Record created on 01-Feb-2006.

 Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
    http://domainhelp.tucows.com

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS5.LUNARPAGES.COM  
    NS4.LUNARPAGES.COM  


 Domain status: clientHold

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Looks like the domain name for 'ol doomy has expired and he hasn't yet re-registered.

It does look a bit suspicious that both doomy and thevintageamigan both disappear within a few days of each other. It appears that thevintageamigan has had his/her ebay account cancelled or suspended possibly due to the amount of ebay/paypal complaints against it - something that should have happened to doomy long ago.

[whiteb]

QUICK, park the domain

[ZeBeeDee]

From what I've discovered, the retrogeekcomputers.com domain lease expired February 01, 2009. However, the registrar allows the domain to be re-registered by the original domain buyer (ol 'Only Amiga' doomy) within a 30 day grace period before the domain is offically recycled and put back out for registration.

So unless doomy re-registers by March 01, 2009 the domain will be free for anyone to own (if they can live with the shame of being linked to doomy forever that is lol).

Oh I can see the hoards of potential buyers just lining up for this one ... NOT!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[mfletcher]

I would suggest someone buys it and just point it at amibay.com

[Jeff]

Not that it matters but I suppose it could have been "Boogiegail" too. The auction styles and prices were somewhat similar to hers if I remember right. I had several positive dealings with "TheVintageAmigan". I guess I am lucky I quit while I was ahead :-o

[dannyp1]

Boogiegail was who came to my mind also.  She (he?) came to a similiar end and sold similar items.  I still would like to know where they get all of the excellent condition A4000's.  Towards the end Boogiegail was into stripping down the computers and selling the components.  I also have ended up being lucky and not losing money with either of these sellers, but it was close both times.

[TheGoose]

TURN OF EVENTS TODAY!

Just another experience to bolster my belief that negative reinforcement works; I got my chip shipped. Too bad the universe must operate under these conditions:
:-)


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Seller's Name: The Vintage Amigan
Seller's Email: ebay@TheVintageAmigan.com
Transaction ID: 1RM10181TM9393822
Transaction Date: Dec. 15, 2008 10:27:00 PST
Transaction Amount: $65.75 USD

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