amibay broken again?

[AmmoJammo]

just a heads up.

paypal isn't safe, the "buyer protection" is completely redundant, as if there are no funds left in the persons paypal account, they won't refund the money.

I paid $4200 for something, guy never sent it, took the issue up with paypal, they investigated, told me they'd decided in my favour, and that when the person had sufficient funds in their account, they'd be able to refund it to me... ah, what?

So, I contacted my credit card company, and they reversed the transaction, leaving paypal chasing the other party for the money... screw you paypal! hahahahah

[ami_junki]

It`s quite interesting to see all the negative comments about Amibay here, didn`t realise there was so much hostility to the site.  I have to admit that I spend most of my time on Amibay as the people on their are extremely helpful, I have not found another site where people are willing to give their time and gear away for free to help others like those on Amibay.  Sure it can be a bit strict at times and inconsistent but hey that`s life and as Fitzstve said if you don`t like it there then b**ger off, life`s too short to be complaining like old women about Amibay.  But I do like Amiga.org, eab.abime and the other sites but I guess it is a continental thing too, I am British and to be honest it is easier to communicate with the users on Amibay as they are mostly British, sounds bad to say it but it`s the truth.

[Lurch]

I haven't had a bad experience with amibay yet. The mods I've come in contact with have been very helpful no matter how stupid my questions have been.

The other thing that amibay is great for is getting in contact with other hardware guru's and getting some great kit. i.e. 8MB module from Tom and internal IDE from Mika.

Didn't know these guys existed until discovering amibay.

EAB is another great forum, plenty of good threads/forums about hardware mods and photos to look at.

Amiga.org has been my home base for awhile, through red/blue splits/being sold etc.

[Lurch]

Downside of amibay is spending more than intended. :-(

[djos]

Downside of amibay is spending more than intended. :-(

I have that problem with eBay too!

[ravard]

I'm with fitzsteve! amibay is on my daily visits since returning to the scene several months ago. Hell, fitzsteve posts are on my daily visits! I have read his history series (parts 1 through 487!). Ok, ok. Maybe a little less than 487 parts. But still loads of fun. So I say thank you amiga.org. Thank you eab. Thank you amibay. Thank you fitzsteve. And thank you amibay mods as you work to get the board back up and running.

[unaccesso]

as we can see attention given to AmyBay, even with some tedious comment, provides a significant measure of its importance for international retrogamers community. in my opinion this support tha validity of moderators job. then, if someone don't think so can without problems delete amybay link from favorites, surely the better solutions for all:)

[djos]

Looks like AmiBay is moving hosting services/servers:

Amibay.com is currently offline

We have been experiencing some server issues and are now in the process of moving the site to a new server. This work is expected to take a couple of days, so we are hopeful Amibay will be back up and running by the weekend.

We can be reached at admin@amibay.com

Progress updates will also be posted by Harrison on http://forum.classicamiga.com

[Lurch]

I have that problem with eBay too!

Yes, looked through my purchase history on Ebay and it's a shocker :-)

[ravard]

I had a nice bit of cash saved up for my play money. I got back into the Amiga scene several months ago and I have blown all my saved up play money! But man am I having fun!

[Damion]

When i pointed out that the idiot who suggested twisting capacitors off amiga motherboards was causing inexperienced people to rip the pads off boards and doing harm.

I missed that thread, but I generally stick to the FS section. Anyway, you are spot on here - twisting capacitors off is a great way to ruin a board!

[Lurch]

http://www.amibay.com = no go

However

http://www.amibay.com/index.php = working :-)

[djos]

Weird, it even let me logon when using the index link.

[WotTheFook]

We're back.....

OK, http://www.amibay.com/index.php should get you back in. http://www.amibay.com is still not working 100% but I think that's down to a DNS routing update that needs to refresh on your local ISP server caches.

[tokyoracer]

It`s quite interesting to see all the negative comments about Amibay here, didn`t realise there was so much hostility to the site.  I have to admit that I spend most of my time on Amibay as the people on their are extremely helpful, I have not found another site where people are willing to give their time and gear away for free to help others like those on Amibay.  Sure it can be a bit strict at times and inconsistent but hey that`s life and as Fitzstve said if you don`t like it there then b**ger off, life`s too short to be complaining like old women about Amibay.  But I do like Amiga.org, eab.abime and the other sites but I guess it is a continental thing too, I am British and to be honest it is easier to communicate with the users on Amibay as they are mostly British, sounds bad to say it but it`s the truth.

Yes but we are talking about the internet here and guys love to have a bit of a b*tch about stuff since they feel superior and right after doing so. I always wonderd why Wayne sold this site and looking back, it's about the same time I stopped being so active on here.

Needless to say, I lost alot of interest in this forum because of theads like these. Plain unhelpful and just so negative all the time. it's really sad since I remember the days of old when I joined this place over 6 years ago and it was a much different story back then.

[magnetic]

Mechy you hit the nail on the head. Amibay is a good ole FANBOY network in UK. They DONT like Americans for sure. And THEY DO 100% read PMs all the time. Not only this but they privacy invade by internet stalking people.

I loved your post about how these idiots say "Evil bay" yet they have bay in the name. LULZ. Even more of a joke they all use ebay all the time. To make it worse they run that site worse than the Ebay nazis ever could. Its so anti amiga.

I'm actually shocked people use the site because of this Big Brother elitist attitude. The original Amibench creator should cry himself to sleep at night what these people have done to his once cool Amiga trading post.

How many times do these morons need to get their site hacked by Amiga people before they learn to change their ways? NEVER because they dont care in the least bit about the community. Only their little happy click of British amigan HOARDERS.  How sad and pathetic