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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2011, 12:50:46 PM »
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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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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2011, 12:53:08 PM »
Yes and you say it at every opportunity. Wish you wouldn't.
 

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2011, 01:07:12 PM »
I am of two minds (I AM a Gemini after all) about this stuff.
 
I have been against Piracy for as long as I can remember, and still am. Things like this though are ussually abandonware and the price they start the bidding at is more for the price of materials and the time taken the collect and organize the material.
 
I myself am working on a cluster of 8-10 Xboxs completly modded and hacked to play my fav. game and feel no problem with it since I own everything I'm modding.
 
But I would never knowingly use a pirated game that is even somewhat available. Heck I only play SNES ROMS for games I physically own!!!
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2011, 02:56:00 PM »
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You say "Power Seller", I say "kitty".
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2011, 03:50:40 PM »
if you want to make money WITH an Amiga....you can make films if you have a Toaster.

millions of people did that for years. but more importantly, people LEARNED how to make films by practicing with relatively inexpensive equipment.

It's what I did (although I didn't have a toaster) and why I could have a career in films, even when I stopped using my original Amiga. That knowledge is in my head.

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2011, 05:21:08 PM »
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ebay to sell at a loss to folk who genuinely want them and make sure I don't sell them to him... :)

I'll have the A4000 030 for 2p please. I'm not being greedy and offering over 1p and not requesting a 040 or better.

On a serious note I want free P&P for 2p

On  a more serious note how can you refuse to sell to certain ebayers - isn't that against ebay's rules?
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2011, 06:22:41 PM »
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I'll have the A4000 030 for 2p please. I'm not being greedy and offering over 1p and not requesting a 040 or better.

On a serious note I want free P&P for 2p

On  a more serious note how can you refuse to sell to certain ebayers - isn't that against ebay's rules?


Sorry didn't buy any A4000s only A1200s and they'll cost a wee bit more than 2p... :)

Sod the rules... rules are made to be broken... it's kind of a pastime for me... :)

Wrote about this elsewhere here before but back when the A500s first came out in 1988 I started my own DTP Design & Printing business using two A500s and old Star 9 pin dot matrix printers... :)

Ran it for nearly two years before I got bored and made enough money to put aside to help with my retirement at age 37 back around 2001 when I had to give up work due to ill health.. :)

Don't think I'd be able to compete these days though, as you can't  get hold of the printer ribbons anymore...:D
 

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2011, 06:52:32 PM »
Haven't sold anything, I just collect :roflmao:
 
You wanna make money within the Amiga world ?
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2011, 07:13:59 PM »
Bloody plastic is hard to print on though...
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2011, 08:19:38 PM »
There are still ways to make $$$ with the Amiga. There is a sports car garage (mostly Porche ) locally that uses two A3000 in their shop for everyday shop tedium. Year ago they used to sell A4000, A4000T computers too.
I add to my income a bit using an Amiga for what boils down to DTP work - output to a good color laser printer.
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2011, 08:24:46 PM »
And whats wrong by living under a bridge..:)
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2011, 08:39:42 PM »
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And whats wrong by living under a bridge..:)


Folk who live under bridges are a ruddy nuisance... :madashell:

They get in the way when you stagger home from the pub and need a pee and then complain cos you made their cardboard boxes all soggy... :)
 

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2011, 09:14:01 PM »
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You just need a good printer!


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I usually blow a lot of money with the Amiga, I didn't know it could put in reverse.
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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2011, 09:43:28 PM »
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:lol:


I usually blow a lot of money with the Amiga, I didn't know it could put in reverse.


most people pay a lot of money to have their amiga blow them :roflmao:
 

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2011, 10:07:06 PM »
I have to agree, you can make money with your Amiga. At the very least you should be able to make a bit by selling the stuff on ebay, specially PPC stuff usually holds it value. But there are other ways, you can still use your Amiga to be creative you know, I still use my Amiga to do the odd graphic or gif because its what I know and I find it easier to work with sometime than these modern programs. But nothing stopping you making the next big game or music track or something else on the amiga. Plus if your a good enough programmer their are loads of bounty out their to collect on, and even on the net, Google emailed me a while back asking if I would like to enable Advert sharing on my You Tube vids, meaning every time an advert is viewed before my amiga vids I would get 0.00.1 of a penny, and maybe One full penny if the user actually clicked on them, put simple maybe in a 100 years time I might of eared one shiny Pound from google for my vids, needless to say I've declined for now. But their is money out their to be made.

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Re: Make money with amiga
« Reply #29 from previous page: February 21, 2011, 11:26:19 PM »
Lol @ AmigaNG