More eBay looniness...

[runequester]

whats funny in the amiga community is many people feel the need to dictate to others what they should sell their Amiga stuff for, or even more extreme, if they should sell it. I've never had that audacity to tell another man what to do with his own possesions.. its not my business.

If people don't want public commentary, then don't be a public salesman.

[Crumb]

You mean this http://www.ebay.de/itm/260966019229 ?

Is 782€ ridiculous price for somewhat rare and sought after(?) busboard?
Okay, you get three Mediators for that price.

Don't get me wrong, everyone is free to sell&buy whatever hardware they want at the price they agree, but IMHO a desktop G-Rex4000 is not so rare (A G-Rex 4000T would be, but not a desktop one) and:
-the performance difference with a Mediator in practice is not much noticeable
-If your CS mk3/PPC dies you won't be able to use a different cpu accelerator model.
-Mediator supports PCI USB (even if a Deneb is much better) and G-Rex has a bug that prevents using PCI USB cards (although perhaps an openpci driver could work using dma to gfx card ram but it doesn't work right now)
-More recent software supports Mediator but doesn't support G-Rex (OS4.x supports Mediator and although I prefer MorphOS it's an older version no longer possible to register)
-I already own other PCI busboards so my needs are well catered for.

But really, for 100€? I bet your friend wouldn't sell it for anywhere near that price.

Yeah, it was some years ago, a brand new CSPPC 040/40 was sold for 400€ at ASB (that's the one he bought) and second hand ones could be bought by 350€ (probably because there was no classic OS4 for it). OS4 caused that the price of Classic PPC hardware increased quite a lot. In those times I sold my Macrosystem's Falcon1240 for 120€, Blizzard1230/50 mk4 were sold for as little as 42€ (and nobody wanted them) and all people with A1200/030 were leaving Amiga and switching to peecee.

[Bamiga2002]

Everybody can sell items at any price they want to, but there is something that bugs me on too high prices:
if one isn't dwelling on a pile of cash and needed an item for Amiga and finds one at EBay (or some other site) and it's way overpriced, one can't afford it thus not getting a *maybe* important item for one's setup. Now if everyone would price items ridicilously high that would only be "fair" for those having the cash to pay. Do we want that? I hope I made my point even if somewhat confusing...

Isn't EBay an auction site? Isn't the principal of an auction for people to get things cheaper than normal prices? Correct me if I'm wrong but that's how I always have thought it would be. I meself try to have this principal when I'm selling stuff: not ripping off, but fair price, fair deal.

[spirantho]

Like it or not, eBay is the fairest pricing system in an open auction, as the price is governed by supply and demand.
We may not like it, but the fact is if there's one item and a hundred people want it, then obviously the price is going to go higher. That is the principle of the auction.

[Bamiga2002]

Nothing wrong with people bidding the price up, but it's the high starting/buy-it-now prices that bug me.

EDIT: do we Amigans want to rip each other off with these items, or be reasonable?

[TheBilgeRat]

EDIT: do we Amigans want to rip each other off with these items, or be reasonable?

Bwa ha ah ah haa ha ha!!! :roflmao:

Reasonable...I like this guy!

The reasonable ones are few and far between, or aren't selling.

[Bamiga2002]

I fail to see what's so funny about this but partly I understand you and cool you had a laugh...
What's wrong being reasonable?

[TheBilgeRat]

I fail to see what's so funny about this but partly I understand you and cool you had a laugh...
What's wrong being reasonable?

Absolutely nothing.  As Bill Clinton used to say - "Ah Feel yer Payne!"

I'm a little bitter about it all, currently - thus the laugh/sarcasm.

[Bamiga2002]

Oh, so you've had your share of a "fair" deal I suppose?

Another thing that bugs me is people that hawk the reasonable deals to themselves and re-sell to try and make a buck selling for double/triple the price they themselves have paid.
But enough rant from me, these things can't really be helped...

[orb85750]

Get on Amibay.com if you're not there already.  

Also, let's keep in mind that we're dealing with discretionary items, not food & water.  Your life is not seriously affected if you can't afford that cool vintage Amiga gear!

[runequester]

It's one thing to sell something that's rare for a high price.

It's quite something else to sell crap that doesn't work for said same high price.

"I found this in a leaky garage, where it's been sitting for 20 years. Im totally sure it works though. Only 1000 dollars. NO REFUNDS!"

[Methuselas]

"I found this in a leaky garage, where it's been sitting for 20 years. Im totally sure it works though. Only 1000 dollars. NO REFUNDS!"

@Runequester

You bought sh!t from my Mom too? She lives in Saint Helens last I knew.......

[Bamiga2002]

Get on Amibay.com if you're not there already.  

Also, let's keep in mind that we're dealing with discretionary items, not food & water.  Your life is not seriously affected if you can't afford that cool vintage Amiga gear!

Yes it is! I'm a bitch for legacy Amiga HW! Hmm....

[magnetic]

Get on Amibay.com if you're not there already.  

Stay AWAY from Amibay whatever you do. They SPY on you and try to control your actions. Its totally against the spirit of Amiga community.

[nikos.rizos]

Stay AWAY from Amibay whatever you do. They SPY on you and try to control your actions. Its totally against the spirit of Amiga community.

Control your actions?

You must have something wrong buddy. There is a basic set of rules there. You follow them rules and everything works just perfect. I bought and sold quite a few things from amibay and never had a problem there.

And I aint talking about 10$ things...I am talking about blizzardPPC, CyberstormPPC etc.

[Duce]

I found the Amibay community more detestable than the ebay community, tbh.

Tried doing business (buying) once there, got turbonerded by a bunch of aggro dickheads.  Won't go back.