/me cries like a baby - I didn't win this auction ;-(

[Siggy]

Yeah, I know the feeling.. My 2000 went 'pop' last week (It had been on it's last legs for over a year) -- and I thought it would be time to maybe replace it with a 3000...

Just as I was tooling around looking for my ebay password, this guy Redrum-somethingorother- put a bid down on it

I'm hanging back to see if anyone else is gonna push the price up

Cheers!

Siggy

[redrumloa]

Just as I was tooling around looking for my ebay password, this guy Redrum-somethingorother- put a bid down on it

LOL! Don't worry, I'm not going too high on that one:-)

[Lando]

I never bid on an auction until the last 10 seconds or so.
There's no point placing a bid earlier - all you're doing is driving the price up and will 9 times out of 10 be outbid anyway.

You have to decide the max you're willing to pay, and bid exactly $0.01 more (just incase your high bid happens to be the maximum bid of the current winning bidder, so you still outbid him but dont have to pay any more), about 10-15 seconds before the end of the auction (so nobody else has time to bid).  Commonly known as "sniping".

The only problem with this is that everybody does it now so if it's a popular item you end up with 10 people all bidding in the dying seconds.

As a seller it's quite amusing to see something you're selling stay at $50 for the whole week then shoot up to $200 in the last 30 seconds :-)

[odin]

So basically you need a good ping for this, LPBastards are ruling just like all the FPS games ;-).

[adolescent]

Wow, isn't that expensive for an A4000/030?  Or, am I missing something.  I got my 040 for $200.  I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?

[amigamad]

I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?

But the video card says something about mutiple monitors. :-)

[locutus]

What kind of Videocard is that Firecracker card anyway ? Amiga-hardware.com lists it as non-RTG and doesn't give any other usefull information.

[redrumloa]

adolescent wrote:
Wow, isn't that expensive for an A4000/030?  Or, am I missing something.  I got my 040 for $200.  I don't think the ancient monitor and video card would make such a difference?

Well yeah sort of, all put in perspective in is a bit steep. I was willing to bid a little more than usual because it was local to me. I would have to pay shipping and I would be able to verify it's condition before paying.

If it wasn't local I wouldn't even want to pay the shipping for that monitor:-)

[redrumloa]

locutus wrote:
What kind of Videocard is that Firecracker card anyway ? Amiga-hardware.com lists it as non-RTG and doesn't give any other usefull information.

It's a non-rtg. You can't use it for workbench but you can with software like Image FX.

[adolescent]

The FireCracker was one of the very early 24bit cards. I remember seeing them at Creative Computers in the early 90s.

As mentioned, it does not support RTG.  I don't even think there was a WB emulation available (like RetinaEmu).  It requires a seperate monitor (or a switch) to use.