Can these things get any more expensive?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Bah.  It's all those people hoarding Amigas (hence, the recent thread "how many do you own?") that's driving the price up.  LOL  ;-)

[Boudicca]

hopefully. !

It amazes me that people expect things to always fall in value. They missed the boat and they whinge about it. If you want cheap bargains...almost forget ebay....get off your ar*e and look. Week after Week after week I trawl junk sales, car boots, markets etc. Win some loose some.

[runequester]

For 1000 dollars, I'd bloody well want to see evidence of the card working

[orange]

Btw,why whine about the prices,after you use the thing 5 years it will be worth the same or more assuming you take care of it.PC clone hardware depreciates the minute you look at it.consider it a good investment.

lets not forget the price on that apple 1

i wouldn't be so sure about it. yes there will probably be less of them, but the number of potential buyers will decline too. would your kids pay so much for Amiga hardware?
and as time goes by, chances are the board will break. due to wear and tear, caps and stuff.
that apple 1 is much simpler and can last longer, i think.

after all, there is not really anything that cheap pc cannot do and that card can. surely in few years there will be amiga_ppc emulator built in uae.
this reminds me of "Tulip mania".

still, if I had money to burn, I'd go for it.

[actung_bab]

Bah.  It's all those people hoarding Amigas (hence, the recent thread "how many do you own?") that's driving the price up.  LOL  ;-)

l have to agree dam silly you can only use one machine maybe owning one of each model but when like have 3 ppc boards of same time dam daft if you ask me
there come time be wortless so more fool them l say

[actung_bab]

@ Slayer
Nah, I never have any luck with getting a bargain and then all the stuff I do buy I very rarely if ever sell, I usually end up getting a sob story from someone and giving it away... :rolleyes:

@ actung_bab

Knowing my luck I'd get crushed by the stuff falling off the back of the lorry... :lol:

yep know what you mean buddy me too l got irish pom welsh bloody apprently my acentors got busy travelling . 2 irish grandfarthers nana from manchester.

[gertsy]

I'm shocked at the price considering the seller offers no guarantees it works, there are just too many things about this auction for me that suggests it wont.

Agree. No guarantees and when someone says it was working the last time it was tried usually means she aint working now.  gambling. Come in spinner...

[Franko]

Another crazy price on ebay... (it's not even a PPC)

Apollo1260 50Mhz 64MB RAM - Buy It Now £425 !!!

I've noticed this particular seller always only ever sells as a Buy It Now and usually never sells the item until they re-list it at a lower price... :rolleyes:

[tone007]

..and it's even got tumors!  Though I was under the impression getting an Apollo to use more than 32MB of RAM was an accomplishment.

[persia]

It's all about collecting, nothing more.  People will obsess and collect the weirdest things, funeral stuff, old signs, glass bottles, why not electronics?  The Amiga had maybe 5 million sold total, most of that has long ago hit the dumpster so it's rare enough to be collectable.

I suspect it will only increase in value if/when C=USA cheap cr@p hits the market, because then the name will be better known..

[PanterHZ]

I know it's just laziness with me, I missed a great bargain about three weeks ago, there's a site in the UK called Gumtree that does local auctions and there was a guy in Edinburgh selling 3 A1200's with 030 boards and he only wanted £45 for the lot, unfortunately I don't drive and my sister who could have taken me their was away that day. I contacted the guy the next day but he had sold them to someone else the night before, just my luck eh...

My biggest bargain was when I bought a QuaddddroPort 4 way clockport expander together with a IOBlix 1200S and a IOBlix 1200P clockport card for a very small amount of money. A while ago I saw an Amiga 3000 with a 030 card & Mediator at a real affordable price, and I was sooooo tempted at bidding on it, and before that I saw a Commodore CDTV which I considered bidding on as well.

But what typically happens with me is that I find something interesting on an auction site, but in order to avoid driving the price up, I don't place a bid early on in the auction. What happens next is that I forget about the whole thing before it's too late

Must be all the different blood from various ancestors bit of German, lithuanian & Irish in the mix...

So you are not a 100% pure scotsman then, you know one of those who will sit in the smallest room in the house with a teaspoon and cry about what he is about to lose :lol:

[PanterHZ]

l have to agree dam silly you can only use one machine maybe owning one of each model but when like have 3 ppc boards of same time dam daft if you ask me
there come time be wortless so more fool them l say

Well I can somehow understand why some people have several versions of the exact same item, because if one item gets damaged, it's easy to replace it with another one that works. And if it's damaged beyond repair, it can still be used for spare parts.

[orb85750]

Btw,why whine about the prices,after you use the thing 5 years it will be worth the same or more assuming you take care of it.PC clone hardware depreciates the minute you look at it.consider it a good investment.

Not whining, just surprised, as already stated.  (I'm not really interested in obtaining one.  I was browsing Amiga on eBay at the time and noticed the very high bids for this not-guaranteed-working unit.)  I really don't think it's a good investment at $1K.  It will be worth less in 5 years.

[Bamiga2002]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-4000-Cyberstorm-PPC604e-PPC-233-Mhz-060-60-Mhz-/130452344809?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5f90cfe9

Woah! :eek:

[zipper]

Woah! :eek:

Yes, pretty cheap...

[psxphill]

after all, there is not really anything that cheap pc cannot do and that card can. surely in few years there will be amiga_ppc emulator built in uae.
this reminds me of "Tulip mania".

Anyone who thinks that the prices of these will keep going up is going to be sorely disappointed at some point. They aren't an investment, you're buying into a dream. The cost is purely based on the number of people who are willing to pay for the dream.
 
However, I too have a large collection of what basically is useless junk that hopefully I'll get round to selling before the price collapses.
 
I've seen it happen in arcade collecting, jamma boards that you could buy cheap and then sell more expensive as more people got into it. Now most people are selling, it's easier to just dump it.