Somthing disturbing about buying amiga on ebay!!!

[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. :/

[runequester]

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. :/

I just paid on an Amiga 1200, but so far, no response back from the seller, though its only the 3rd day...

Only been ripped off once before, but I'll definately keep an eye on the paypal dispute period

[XDelusion]

On the up side, my guy just wrote me. Relief.

[recidivist]

Ebay does have buyer protection for many sales;just don't let the  dispute  time expire.
I had a Yahoo seller put me off with excuses until the  time was too late to file and it cost me $80.
Caveat emptor.

[barney]

But here is what I really don't understand.  People keep the same damn stuff in there WEEK AFTER WEEK and it doesn't sell.  Not only that, but the price doesn't go down one dime!!!  I am a big collector of Vic-20 stuff and there is a guy selling an $8 game cartridge for $100.  It has been in there over 2 years....doesn't he understand it will NEVER SELL!!!?  I guess people use all this over priced crap as "filler" to make their stores larger than they really are.  Two decently prices items wrapped in blanket of "Out of this world, overpriced garbage!!!!!!!"

[TheBilgeRat]

Yeah, there was an A2000 on there the other day for "Buy it Now-999 dollars!"  After a few it changed to 299.  Not too sure he ever got the offer he wanted :crazy:

[Buzzfuzz]

http://cgi.ebay.de/Amiga-1200-Blizzard-PPC-PowerPC-603e-Power-Board-/150440766564?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item2306f7ec64
 
Blizzard PPC 603 060/240, it's going for 600 or more I bet, 12 hours left.
I paid 300 for a 1260 including SCSI adapter, a full working A1200 with modified PSU, black Amiga mouse and a SCSI CDROM drive.

[runequester]

Ive been guilty of this in the past when selling books, but its easy to get into your head that "there might be that one guy who'll pay a crazy price!"
 
Usually... there's not
 
Of course on ebay everything is RARE and MINT.
"GOOD AS NEW although I haven't powered it on for 9 years"

[whabang]

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

Eyes... burning... must... mind bleach...

[B00tDisk]

I shop on ebay but BINs only - and then only from dealers with a 98% or better rating.

Anything less and you're asking to be screwed.

For $125 I picked up a new touchscreen, bezel and hinge and got a thrown-away Gateway tablet notebook working again, plus various other bits and pieces over the years.

I've only fought through auctions a few times, and then it was on stuff that clearly was being bid against by a single only slightly-interested person...

[Buzzfuzz]

That Blizzard did 755 euro's or 940 dollars / 645 pounds for a 060/240!!