Amiga a dying interest or ebay full of cheapskates?

[Amiga_Nut]

Because when a more or less working 2.5mb A1000 complete sells on ebay for £44 you have to wonder why.

I would expect a working A1000 motherboard alone to be worth this much but obviously it isn't or perhaps ebay is a complete waste if time.

[redrumloa]

Because when a more or less working 2.5mb A1000 complete sells on ebay for £44 you have to wonder why.

I would expect a working A1000 motherboard alone to be worth this much but obviously it isn't or perhaps ebay is a complete waste if time.

eBay is a crapshoot when you list an auction. A pretty vanilla A4000 recently sold for about $480, which seems rather high.

[orb85750]

Because when a more or less working 2.5mb A1000 complete sells on ebay for £44 you have to wonder why.

I would expect a working A1000 motherboard alone to be worth this much but obviously it isn't or perhaps ebay is a complete waste if time.

Because loading both a KS and WB disk is a pain in the ass!

[tone007]

A1000s aren't exactly rare, at least not in the US, they go for less than that regularly.

As more of a collector's item than anything else, unless it's boxed and mint it's not terribly interesting.  There are easier to upgrade units around for something to "trick out."

[Boudicca]

Because when a more or less working 2.5mb A1000 complete sells on ebay for £44 you have to wonder why.

I would expect a working A1000 motherboard alone to be worth this much but obviously it isn't or perhaps ebay is a complete waste if time.

"More or Less"....what are you on about. It is either working or not working.

[runequester]

1000s seem pretty common in the US. Ebay is highly random though. Sometimes a plain 500 will go for over a hundred.

[drHirudo]

1000s seem pretty common in the US. Ebay is highly random though. Sometimes a plain 500 will go for over a hundred.

I am bidding now on A500+ with 2MB chip RAM for a buck. Seems all the classic Amiga enthusiasts and collectors have moved on and there is not much interest anymore. This is very bad, because both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 are aiming mostly at these users, since they are much more than all the other people using the so called NG Amiga platforms.

[orb85750]

I am bidding now on A500+ with 2MB chip RAM for a buck. Seems all the classic Amiga enthusiasts and collectors have moved on and there is not much interest anymore.

That is complete nonsense, unless it just happened in the last few weeks.  (And most of the action in eBay auctions usually occurs in the last few minutes.)

[dammy]

I am bidding now on A500+ with 2MB chip RAM for a buck. Seems all the classic Amiga enthusiasts and collectors have moved on and there is not much interest anymore. This is very bad, because both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 are aiming mostly at these users, since they are much more than all the other people using the so called NG Amiga platforms.

There is Amiga Forever and AROS, in these horrid economic times, which you think the retro gamer is going to purchase?

[drHirudo]

There is Amiga Forever and AROS, in these horrid economic times, which you think the retro gamer is going to purchase?

AROS is no good for retro gaming, Amiga Forever costs money.
So, WinUAE seems the best choise in these horrid economic times.

Wasn't there some work in AROS to reimplement the Amiga kickstart ROM in open sourced code?
Something like the Atari people did with EmuTOS, which runs some of the games in the Atari ST emulators.

[orb85750]

Last week, 10 bidders went after a not-fully-working A4000 .... $371.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-4000-/150454774588?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307cdab3c

I bought a working one on eBay over a year ago for about $250.

[ElPolloDiabl]

If it is local pick up only that can lower it's popularity. If you want serious money go to the extra effort of postage.

[runequester]

Ive also seen a lot of people getting rid of systems purely because they need the money.

Its worth noting too that a lot of people have multiple systems, so selling off one doesn't mean they are getting out of the hobby altogether

[Boudicca]

That is complete nonsense, unless it just happened in the last few weeks.  (And most of the action in eBay auctions usually occurs in the last few minutes.)

About a week ago, A500+ Original packaging (opened sadly), plus quite a few games, 5 quid at car boot......Didn't want to carry it....so skipped.....Tandy TRS80 + 4 quid today and again...passed on the opportunity....C64 without PSU didnt even bother asking.

[halvliter'n]

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