AmiBench closes

[System]

In a bit of a shock, Mark Wilson has chosen to close AmiBench.com.  AmiBench was a great place to buy and sell Amiga goods.  Apparently, even on his birthday, he was being continually harrassed by a few of the zealots of this community.  

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[color=336699][editor's note: I cannot say I blame him, and I wish him well.  I know it's of little consolation, but Happy Birthday][/color][/i]

[xeron]

*sigh*

Well, I wish Mark all the best for the future... its a real shame, I bought my A4000 and my Cyberstorm through Amibench. I hope the arseholes who sent stupid mails to Mark are happy with what they've "achieved"  :-(  :-x

[SWAUG]

SWAUG's response to Amibench closing:

Mark,
Thank you for the many years of service that you have given to the Community.  It is valued by the majority although we have seen an example of the subversive minority today.

There are very little services like AmiBench available for other computer platforms and your site encapsulates the true ethos of the Amiga.  I hope that you find time to reflect on this emotive decision and reinstate AmiBench for the community.

To try and deter abuse being posted in the future, perhaps you could store peoples IP addresses when they are posting and secondly have a user registration system similar to eBays where you are able to rate users on past experiences.

Anyway, you have the full support of SWAUG and if this is the end of Amibench, our thanks for the years of service to the Amiga.

[MrZammler]

Well, instead of closing, why dont he just pass it over to someone else?

[amigamad]

Typical a few morons ruin a good site for everyone else

[System]

@MrZammler,

For much the same reason that I refuse to "give" Amiga.org to someone else when I get a bit depressed over the situation.  A lot of a person's soul and hard work go into building a site.  Each site has a "soul" of it's own and it would be incredibly hard to either walk away from it, or to hand it to someone that you did not trust 110%.

Wayne

[Ryu]

Well this is sad news indeed :-( Mark, thankyou for letting me use the service you have provided over the last few years and I am sorry you have chosen to close AmiBench. If I can help in any way I will, again I am sorry. I know we havent seen eye to eye on some things in the past but I respect you and I thankyou from the bottom of my heart. I hope you can enjoy whats left of your birthday, take a bit of a time out, think things over and perhaps you might decide to keep AmiBench running or pass it on to someone else. I myself would be happy to run the site, But I dont know a great deal about webmastering nor do I have anywhere I could host it myself :-( If you were here I would deffinatly take you to my local and buy you a pint or several.

[Paul_Gadd]

Disgusting,

Why does people always attack Wilson?

He provides a buy/sell website and gets treated like crap,

Happy Birthday Mark and dont let these evil monsters get you down,

As for the "PiracyPolice" you piece of ####.

[Calen]

An end to another era, Amibench will be missed.

Good luck with the future Mark.

[Wilse]

This is a sad day indeed. I haven't used amibench for a while but used to buy and sell there regularly.

Re. Piracy: The last time I did use amibench it was to swap my CD32 for a 10gig HD.
The other chap lived near Glasgow so I arranged to meet him in town. As he handed me the drive he told me that OS3.9 was installed on it and loads of games.  When I got into the drive I noticed that the games were cracked pirate versions. I formatted the whole thing anyway and I still use OS3.5. I felt a bit funny about having 'purchased' pirate software but wouldn't dream of trying to blame Tecno for 'allowing it to be sold'. That really is pathetic.

I hope he resurrects Amibench but can understand if he does not.

This also shows that Wayne is not alone in feeling exasperated with some of this 'community'.

[Gryfon]

Mark,

Many people will miss your excellent service.  I used Amibench to get many useful hardware bits for my system, without which I am sure it would have perished long ago.  A heartfelt "thanks" for all your support over the years.  Amibench wil be missed.

Gryfon

[redrumloa]

Mr Wilson, I am sorry to hear the stress some a*****es put you through :-x

It's always easier to be destructive than it is to be constructive :-x

[yssing]

This is really tobad...
I did use to use amibench alot..
I bought my 1260 there....

Best of lusk in the future....

[Zola]

Another nail in the Amiga coffin.  

Sorry to here this Techno and all the best for your future projects. Why is it the whole community suffers because of a few petty individuals?

[System]

Ok. To say I'm shocked is a bit of an understatement.

My email has being going crazy, and so have all the Amiga news sites from what I've seen and heard.

Its sobering to see so many people are upset about what I posted on AmiBench.

I think I'm going to have to re-consider what I said. For the next couple of days the site will remain closed. Maybe permently I'm not sure. I dont know what else I can say. I have no intention of 'handing' over the site to anyone else to run because then its just not the same.

I've had many offers of help and support and my email is going crazy.