Greetings Guys,
I was just following the thread and as a "former" Amiga dealer turned into 99% PC dealer over the years like so many others, I thought I throw my 2 cents in.
I've been using E-Bay to start selling a bulk of my left over Amiga inventory. I've only been doing this for only about 3 weeks now. I basically boxed most of my Amiga inventory a while ago and stored it after the local Amiga business dried up and local user group disintegrated. Now I'm going through it, scanning or photographing each item, and listing auctions as time permits.
From what I've experienced so far, I can see how frustrating it is for some who are bidding on popular or hard to find items and get beat out at the end of the auctions.
But looking at the market these days, I wasn't suprised to see so many dealers and developers are gone and have moved on to other things. I guess that they needed to make a living. :-)
Since this is the case, finding Amiga hardware and software that you want isn't easy for anybody. So the prices that some people will pay for something on E-Bay or wherever may seem crazy to you, but perfectly acceptable to them. I guess it's a matter of how bad you need it.
As a seller, E-Bay can be risky like any kind of auction..you win some, you lose some. Most people have been decent and honest. I've only had one bidder so far who won a item, didn't pay and seemed to fall off the face of the earth and hasn't reponded to any e-mails.
I've been out of the Amiga scene for quite a while now since the PC business takes up most of my time. My personal A4000/060 and my CD32 have been collecting dust for a while, but since I've started to sell Amiga software & hardware on E-Bay, I need to test some products before selling them.
I admit, it's been fun playing around with the old rig again.
