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Make money with amiga
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:24:39 AM »
Dear Friends:

A long time ago, when I went to college, a professor told me:
"do what you love and the money will come".
I found this to be true...that is why I wanted to pass this
on to you.
If you love amiga...you can make money with it.
Love !!!

Rednova
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Offline Cammy

Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 07:57:21 AM »
You just need a good printer!
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2011, 08:26:27 AM »
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You just need a good printer!



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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2011, 08:38:32 AM »
hahah made me chuckle!
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2011, 09:13:11 AM »
Well there is no money to be made with amiga. Well assuming you don't want to live under a bridge or something (I don't). :)
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2011, 09:36:19 AM »
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Well there is no money to be made with amiga. Well assuming you don't want to live under a bridge or something (I don't). :)


..maybe not on it's own :) I still use ppaint, brilliance and DPaint regularly at the various games companies iv'e worked for-more so on handheld paletted stuff.
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2011, 09:48:47 AM »
You CAN make money with the Amiga these days... :)

How... if you flog them on eBay, I've been battling it out with a "power seller" on eBay for the past three weeks now buying as many Amigas as I could always bidding against this guy who buys just about everything Amiga he can on eBay and then relists them at twice the price and he make his living from this... :)

How do I know... he emailed me on ebay telling me that this was his livelihood and he has to charge the ridiculous prices and postage that he does to make a living... :)

He's easy to spot has well over 17,500 stars and bids on everything Amiga on ebay, which is a shame for folk who are only looking for an Amiga for themselves as they end up being outbid and then having to buy them from him at his ridiculous prices and his overcharging on P&P... :(

It's cost me just over a grand over the past three weeks outbidding him on ebay but when I get all the stuff delivered and tested I'm gonna put most of them back on ebay to sell at a loss to folk who genuinely want them and make sure I don't sell them to him... :)

Some folk may call this crazy but I hate to see someone doing this and making genuine Amiga users pay through the nose cos this guy is a so greedy... :)
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Offline Cammy

Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2011, 10:15:52 AM »
You're a modern-day Robin Hood, Franko! That's a really nice thing you're doing, I'd love to do the same if I could afford it.
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Offline fitzsteve

Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2011, 10:22:20 AM »
There's a lot of people on ebay doing this now.  There are even a few that split down into individual components even selling the empty box and poly's seperate.  And have you seen the amount of pre configured CF's on there these days?
 
@Franko, you really are mad bless you - but I like your style.
 
Airey36 does have his uses like when you need a keyboard clip or a floppy drive bracket but it is a pain when he outbids you :angry:.
 
You should sell them on through trading forums though and save the fees, plus you know they arev going right back into the community :)
 
All the best.
 
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2011, 12:10:09 PM »
@ Cammy

Thanks Cammy, I'd rather be a Robin Hood than a Robbin B&$!&£D anyday... ;)

@ Fitsteve

Didn't want to name the guy as he does make his living from it and I reckon anyone who looks for Amiga stuff on eBay knows about him, but to be honest his tactics of trying to outbid everyone and then the ridiculous prices he charges and his rip-off P&P costs really pisses me off...

I've sussed out how much he's willing to pay for certain things to keep his profit margin high and so will continue to outbid him until he eases of a bit and give genuine Amiga users a chance... :)
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2011, 12:15:12 PM »
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2011, 12:32:08 PM »
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This guy is making money off of Amiga...
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/Complete-Commodore-CDTV-Games-Collection-/200575455712?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2eb33a91e0


And good luck to him I say... :)

With these things the way I see it is if folk are willing to pay a few quid to these guys for something like that then let them take their chances... :)

But to be honest why bother when once again they can found for free just by looking on the net and if you really want the original and it's box then you can usually find someone selling an old copy on ebay... :)

Again it all comes down to the companies & copyright owners not giving a flying feck about the Amiga anymore. They could if they wanted to re-release them but they wont as the profit margin wouldn't be big enough... :(

No point in the copyright mafia screaming blue murder over it if the companies & copyright holders don't care... :)

You could of course look for a second hand one on the like's of eBay if you really want the boxed original but then how many folk out there are actually selling them... :)

If it's Amiga software and it's not available to purchase easily and legally from anywhere then it it's high time we cut the BS and put everything online for free and let the few remaining Amiga users left in this world get some use out of it... :)
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2011, 12:40:37 PM »
Always knew it Franko. You are a gentleman beyond reproach.

 I raise me Bruichladdich to yer. Cheers.
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2011, 12:46:23 PM »
You can make money with Amiga, if you want. The guy who uses an Amiga in a bowling hall surely is making profit. Article writers does not need much more than a text editor, so Amiga will be very good for this task as well. Pixel artists have many great Amiga tools at hand.

If someone says that you can't make money with the Amiga, then he is either disabled or lacks imagination.

I make money with my Amiga, but I am not telling how, because other Amigans may try to take my profit.
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Offline Tension

Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2011, 12:50:46 PM »
Quote from: Franko;616908
You CAN make money with the Amiga these days... :)

How... if you flog them on eBay, I've been battling it out with a "power seller" on eBay for the past three weeks now buying as many Amigas as I could always bidding against this guy who buys just about everything Amiga he can on eBay and then relists them at twice the price and he make his living from this... :)

How do I know... he emailed me on ebay telling me that this was his livelihood and he has to charge the ridiculous prices and postage that he does to make a living... :)

He's easy to spot has well over 17,500 stars and bids on everything Amiga on ebay, which is a shame for folk who are only looking for an Amiga for themselves as they end up being outbid and then having to buy them from him at his ridiculous prices and his overcharging on P&P... :(

It's cost me just over a grand over the past three weeks outbidding him on ebay but when I get all the stuff delivered and tested I'm gonna put most of them back on ebay to sell at a loss to folk who genuinely want them and make sure I don't sell them to him... :)

Some folk may call this crazy but I hate to see someone doing this and making genuine Amiga users pay through the nose cos this guy is a so greedy... :)


You say "Power Seller", I say "****".
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