What were your best Amiga bargain buys?

[dougal]

I had a few good bargain buys over the years.. I am sure we all have. Here are a few of my best (in my opinion) bargain buys over the years.

A4000 030/50Mhz with 1Gb HD and CDROM + Software + original OS3.9 CD ---- 80 Euros
Blizzard 1230IV with 32Mb ram ---- 50 Euros
Escom A1200HD boxed with all manuals + software + Blizzard 1230IV & 32Mb --- 80 Euros
A600 with power brick and mouse ----- 0.50Cents (YES FIFTY CENTS)
A600 with 2MB Chipram --- 2 Euro
A1200 with power supply ---- 3 Euro
A500 with A590 and romswitcher (1.3 & 2.04), mouse, psu and software --- 10 Euros

I had bought all these locally (not through ebay etc,,)

[4pLaY]

Ive had quite a few over the years... last one i recall that i considered a great deal was 3 free A4000s where one included 060 etc.. they were in a shitty state but free is free.

[tone007]

A1200 in RBM tower case with Blizzard 1260 for something like $200 was a pretty good one, and the A2000/A3000/A3000T combo for $80 wasn't too bad either.

[Hell Labs]

Amiga 500 - £0.00

[TheGoose]

A3000D - FREE, got it from this board, it happens time to time...

[JimS]

Let's see.... I got a 3000, and a 2000 with a Toaster in lieu of back pay when the Amiga store where I worked went bankrupt. Had to sell the 3000 for rent...
One of our old customers called me up and gave me a 2000 with a supergen genlock for nothing... when I went to pick it up, he tossed in a 1000 he'd found in the garage...
I also found a 1000 at the Goodwill for $7....

[rkauer]

A2000 + GVP Combo 030/33MHz + 12Mb RAM + Supra Modem, complete = R$0,00 (in £ that's 0.00, someone may ask in USD: US$0.00)

 An A3000D 16MHz, but with ROM2.0, 2+16Mb RAM, no keyboard, no mouse. I have the original kb at home: R$120,00 (£43 / US$66). Not bad at all!

[Dr_Righteous]

Stock A4000D, US$50. I almost feel sorry for the guy I bought it from. Almost.
A500, Free. I warned that guy if he spilled his bong on it again after I cleaned it the first time I was gonna take it away from him...

PS: @JimS - Your Avatar, LOL!

[puffy5]

A2000
(2) G-Force 040 combo's w/64mb ram total
(1) guru rom for the G-Force
Opal Vision video card
PAR (Personal Animation Recorder)
1084 monitor
software

Got the above for $200. A few months later I was very fortunate to the benefactor of a garage cleaning. I was told that whatever I didn't take was going to the secondhand store. I took everything.

(1) A4000T 060 128mb ram
(1) A3000
(3) A2000
(1)A2500
(1) A1200
(4) A500
(2) A1000

040 for A4000T
030 for A2000 (A2630)
030 for A2000 (A2630)

MegAChip        
A520 video        
GVP DSS8        
8 monitors (from 12" up to 17")    
(1) nos keyboard (in box for A2000)
toaster card    
vidi amiga 24 rt
Supra Ram 500RX
(2) Supra Gen
Jaz drive
several zip drives
many switch boxes
box of patch cables
( dongles  (who knows for what)
(3) scsi cd drives in external cases
~750 floppies best guess
 box of joysticks ~12
several pairs of speakers
case of books and manuals
~30 packaged software programs
a lot more misc stuff

All of the above is for sale either as a lot or individually.

Bill

[save2600]

A2000HD w/ mouse, keyboard, 28mhz 68000 accelerator that plugged into the fast slot, A2091 w/ 40mb HD, KS/OS1.3 and 4MB RAM - free + the cost of shipping.

A2500 w/ GVP 030 combo card w/ 1mb 32-bit RAM, 6mb on a Zorro II card, 50MB HD, KS/OS2.1 - free + the cost of shipping.

A1084s (samsung) & A1200 w/ external HD, KS/OS3.0, 4MB RAM and 68881 - free had a buddy drop it off

(2) A1200's, one with a 40mhz 030, 32MB RAM and KS/OS3.1 - $80 shipped

A1084s (philips) partially working A500 with KS/OS1.3, 1mb RAM - free local pickup from a member here!

Large box of AmigaWorlds (including the premiere issue), some Amazing Computing and a small lot of boxed software - free local pickup

A2000 w/ GVP 040 Combo, 64mb RAM, large external SCSI box w/ CD-ROM and Bernouli cartridge setup, boxes and boxes of software, AMAX hardware, scanners, digitizers, books, mags - A1000 512kb system complete in the box - all free from a semi local pickup!

(2) A3000's that I was able to make one real nice system from (the one in my sig) for $80 shipped. Case was too far damaged on one of the systems (someone had cut the bezel all up trying to mod a different drive into her) to keep whole, so I'll just keep the mobo, power supply, etc. for spares I guess.


...I think that's it for the real "bargains" throughout the years. Most all of these came from the very late 90's up until about 2006.

[Linde]

I traded an aging 200 MHz PC for an Amiga 1200 + Blizzard 1230 IV. I wish I never sold that accelerator.

[T3000]

Dang, after reading the posts in this thread, what I thought was a bargin buy doesn't look as good. Then again, at the time I thought it was a good buy.
~ MegaChip -  $40. Others on Ebay at the time were going for at least twice as much.
~ scsi harddrive tower with several drives for VT/Flyer -  $200.
~ parallel Zip drive w/ps & scsi cables for $1 at a yard sale then sawpped the drive unit with a friend for a scsi Zip drive and a couple of Zip disks.

[cv643d]

-A4000 in Elbox tower, CSPPC060/233,CVPPC,Ariadne, loaded + A1200 for 450 euro, ok not that cheap perhaps but a nice price.

-A4000 030 desktop, 75 euro

-A1200T in Elbox tower, DCE scandoubler + original case, 50 euro

-A2630, 30 euro

-Pegasos 2 motherboard incl 512 MB and graphics board, 200 euro (well into the launch of 4.1)

[tokyoracer]

1230 Blizz Mk. IV with SCSI IV - £45 (I think off this forum).

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A1200T, Apollo 040 (faulty), A1200 (faulty floppy controller), 5 A500's, several RAM expansions for A500, custom chips, SCSI DataFlyer 1200, various cables including 2 Squirrel's, 2 Genlocks, lomega ZIP drive, several Amiga VHS's, several joysticks, loads of mice, 1000's disks, boxed software, hand scanners.

Forget what else but was all for £60 (private wanted ad I put in).

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A1200 HD (Escom) very white plus un-broken sticker with, FPU/RAM/RTC card, Goliath PSU, new gamepad, pink button ZiPSTiCK, SCSI Sqirrel with Zappo CD drive, PCMCIA transfer kit, loads of software.

Some other stuff too for £80 including P+P (eBay).

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A1200 boxed with a ton of fully boxed 100% complete games (with receipts!) FREE! (from a friend of my uncle's).

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A1200 with loads of games and 80Mb hard drive for £1 at a car boot sale few years ago in 2004.

[spaceman88]

A1200, 1260, 3.1 roms, 4 gig HD, Multisync monitor and empty tower case (with keyboard, 4 way HD splitter) - $100 Canadain dollars.

A2000, 3.1 roms, 68020, SCSI HD, Amber card & A3000, 3.1 roms - $50