Somthing disturbing about buying amiga on ebay!!!

[barney]

I have just about had it.  I go to ebay and conduct a search for all "Amiga" items, but there is somthing that really annoys me.  Of all 12,500 items that come up 10,000 of them are single issues of amiga world.....PAGE AFTER DAMN PAGE OF AMIGA WORLD.  Does anybody else get annoyed with this?  It gets to be an eye sore...the same damn issues of amiga world staring me in the face, week after week.  Not only that but they have the nerve to charge over $20 an issue.  Sorry about my ranting.  Thank you.

Barney

[Tension]

Plus everything for sale is 'Rare' for some reason.  What a load of bollocks.

[Amiga_Nut]

lol I remember when the vintage sections were clogged up with stupid WoW gold/credits etc that went on for pages without interruption when I wanted to browse all retro machines at once sorted by price.

You could of course search for "amiga -world" though

[barney]

I will have to try "amiga -world".  I knew there was a way to ignore a certain word. Thanks.

By the way, here is somthing else that really pisses me off.  What is up with the big influx of overpriced 8088 IBM bridgeboards for the Amiga?  I see people selling the rediculous things for over $125.  No offense everybody, but these things nowadays are totally useless.  They were almost useless back then.  You can only run the most archaic software, nowhere to put the floppy drive (bay already filled), finding ibm software on 720k disks is almost impossible, and did I mention they're useless?!!!   Sorry, I am losing my temper again.

[Amiga_Nut]

I will have to try "amiga -world".  I knew there was a way to ignore a certain word. Thanks.

I've also noticed a strange effect with ebay searches too. If you type in "Amiga game" and search it picks out loads of auctions with just the word amiga. To get round it you have to put both words in double quotes. Kinda mad. Also I have some absolutely OTT searches in the general section saved that look like scientific formulas with all the brackets comas and minus signs in max length value for the input field, works a treat though as it filters out all the machines I do and don't want

edit: double quotes required around both words I mean. Double quotes around the phrase "amiga game" like that alone will miss out things titled "Amiga A500/600/1000/2000 game Lotus II" etc

[jValdron]

Yeah would be nice if the would do the same thing in Vintage Computing than in Video Games. They can be sorted by System only or by Accessories, or other stuff...

[Buzzfuzz]

I have just about had it. I go to ebay and conduct a search for all "Amiga" items, but there is somthing that really annoys me. Of all 12,500 items that come up 10,000 of them are single issues of amiga world.....PAGE AFTER DAMN PAGE OF AMIGA WORLD. Does anybody else get annoyed with this? It gets to be an eye sore...the same damn issues of amiga world staring me in the face, week after week. Not only that but they have the nerve to charge over $20 an issue. Sorry about my ranting. Thank you.
 
Barney

I totally understand, the other fact is that when I search the local eaby or ebay.com worldwide for say an Amiga 4000, I get 0 results.
When I go to ebay.de 1 result pops up, so WTF is that ?
 
Nothing is rare, rare are the developer systems, protypes, any Amiga is just common, not even a Cyberstorm PPC is rare :roflmao:

[prowler]

You should have a look on the Australian EBay site (just doa  search for Amiga). There are one or two guys on there selling Amiga and C64 items for rediculous amounts, some are more than what they had cost when they were new.

[ElPolloDiabl]

If you pay the monthly fee for a shop you get unlimited listings for like 20 cents each.
It's a pretty lousy experience on Ebay nowadays.

[jValdron]

If you pay the monthly fee for a shop you get unlimited listings for like 20 cents each.
It's a pretty lousy experience on Ebay nowadays.

You pay a monthly fee to get unlimited listings that you have to pay 20 cents each? Doesn't really add up

[KThunder]

My brother in law used to sell books on ebay. Then ebay changed for the worst so he switched to amazon. He said they are way better for most stuff, it's not the same setup of course.

[gertsy]

Unfortunately eBay aint the only disturbing thing.  What about youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU

[persia]

There's something disturbing about buying on eBay period.  It's become overun by scammers, whiners and wankers.

[runequester]

you can still find a good deal, but you have to really be on the lookout. Far more jerks trying to rip you off.

[XDelusion]

The fact that I bought a seemingly defective 50Mhz 030 and have not heard back from the seller yet irritates me. I have NEVER been ripped off or treated unfairly by an Amiga user, and I hope this guy is not going to ruin that legacy. :/