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Did you ever regret it?
« on: May 14, 2011, 06:28:59 PM »
Did you at any time sell your Amiga and then regret it having to buy another at some time?

I did years ago and never again, that was a bit mistake.

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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 06:51:56 PM »
I've sold a few machines over the years but only real regret was selling my A1200T with BPPC+BV combo.
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 06:54:44 PM »
I've sold many Amigas, the only one I miss is the 3000T, though I don't regret selling it.
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 06:55:45 PM »
Yes, definitely. I sold my first Amiga in 2002 and didn't get back into the platform until 2010...gah, what I could have been doing in that time...
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2011, 07:03:45 PM »
Yes and no...
At the time, I needed to get a better PC for work.
If I had the money to "add" a better PC AND keep the Amiga, that would have been nice.  ;-)

But as it was, life/work has been pretty good, so I don't regret the choice.
I regret that I "had" to make that choice a bit, but that is the way of choices. ;-)

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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2011, 07:10:00 PM »
Only machine I ever sold that I sometimes wish I hadn't was my A4000, regret... not really as it would have only sat around for nostalgia's sake and probably never got used again... :)
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2011, 07:32:27 PM »
I've bought, sold, traded and reclaimed so many Amiga's throughout the years that I've hardly ever been without. The only thing I really regret Amiga wise is having gotten away from the platform in the early 90's. I had an A1200 with an external HD at the time, but the thing was something of a money pit back then and loaded, more capable PC's were so much cheaper. In retrospect, it would have been nice to have stuck with the Amiga throughout the 90's. I might have had a better appreciation for OS3.5, OS3.9 and the computers capabilities comparatively.  

Didn't really get back into Amiga until about 2000, when I landed (2) A1200's for $80 shipped. One even had an 030 accelerator card and a hard drive chock full of WHDLoad stuff which totally got me back into 'em :)

The only system I never reclaimed though was a CD32. Would be nice to have one of those again someday.
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2011, 07:46:49 PM »
Yeah,

many times, always buy and then sold..

Sometimes a say as joke,  "the Amigas does not like me but they like of my"..
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2011, 07:53:49 PM »
I regret selling my BPPC for £250 a few years ago.

If you are reading this Steven then I'd love to buy it back from you if you aren't using it, as I really want to develop some stuff for OS4.1.
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2011, 08:22:07 PM »
aaaarggghhhh can't read !!! i'm selling mine at this moment ... :(
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2011, 08:34:18 PM »
Quote from: Foul;637820
aaaarggghhhh can't read !!! i'm selling mine at this moment ... :(


You won't regret it! (provided you get a good price for it.)
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2011, 09:33:05 PM »
I received a huge tax bill and very reluctantly had to sell my cherished CSPPC card to help towards paying it off. It sold and a week later I get a suspect email from the buyer complaining the card was "dusty" and wasn't what he was expecting for the price etc, and wanted to return it in exchange for a refund.

Anyway my suspicions were confirmed when card arrived back completely fried, the SCSI port was physically damaged, and he even managed to somehow kill the PPC fan for good measure.

So it wasn't a great idea selling my CSPPC, at the end of the day it didn't pay a penny off my tax bill, and my once flawlessly running PPC card was reduced to scrap. :(
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2011, 09:37:29 PM »
Please tell us the name of the ebayer then I can avoid him.
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2011, 09:52:44 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;637827
Please tell us the name of the ebayer then I can avoid him.
Indeed!
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Re: Did you ever regret it?
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2011, 10:01:06 PM »
So far, I've managed to avoid selling any of my Amiga machines. I came very close to selling my main A1200T (complete with BPPC and BVision) back in 2002 during what was a financially difficult time. I'm glad I didn't - building it had been a labour of love and an expensive one at that. It is still running now.
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