ebay madness

[thinlega]

ye gods!

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[Marlon]

And Akira is such a SHIT game, too. As it lacks the t-shirt it's not even a good collectable for completists. Anyone prepared to pay ANYTHING for it deserves all they get.

[Dizzy]

hehehe a danish shop sell it for 5$ guess I better buy it and sell it on ebay

You talk about ebay madness. I have noticed that the Amiga 1200 computers
on ebay the A1200's are getting a little pricey these days. Some of the
bidders on ebay are going nuts. However, alot the Amiga hardware seems
to be going up in price. My biggest ebay pet peeve. When bidders go crazy!
What is your ebay pet peeve?

[thinlega]

hummmm...this only seems to apply to ebay when i have sold amiga stuff.

But I hate it when you get loads of people emailing asking you to cancel the auction and sell it to them direct for a low price. PLUS i once got an email after selling an a4000 that i could not get working(red screen??) saying "it is clear that you do know alot about amigas" "red screens are just for hal"

[ant512]

Originally Posted by thinlega

an a4000 that i could not get working(red screen??) saying "it is clear that you do know alot about amigas" "red screens are just for hal"

The red screen on startup indicates a bad ROM chip; this can be solved by re-seating the Kickstart ROMs, or replacing them if that does not work. If the ROM has been soft-kicked into RAM, switching the Amiga off for 30 seconds solves the problem. More info here:

http://amiga.emugaming.com/selftest.html

[thinlega]

I wish i had found this place and posted before i sold it....I think it would have been ok

thanks for the reply ant

[Unknown_K]

Did you sell it cheap?

[thinlega]

I am not sure how much I sold it for something like £80 or £90....

[stainy]

Link

Here`s one for ya!

[Steve]

That is just insane. Who is gonna pay that? Who would pay half that?? Bonkers!

[bippym]

Woooahh.. I wouldn't pay £20!

[TheCyberDruid]

Guess someone decided it's time to get his old age benefits

[DH]

For more games and hardware check out my other offers:

Lol, if that's what he calls an offer I'd rather not

[Paul_s]

Ah, our friend Bastibs is selling Moonstone there

[chiark]

Bless him. He's a reformed character!

[Smiley]

lol. It only takes 1 nutcase for him to make a tidy profit.

I sold my copy of this boring game for £50.

[stainy]

eBay user penold_t_mole seems to have gone mental with his pricing model!!!

[fishyfish]

It's a shame prices people ask on ebay for old retro gear isnt what its actually worth. If I could sell off the hundreds of 72 pin simms, dozens of old scsi drives, dozens of old 486/p1/p2 class cpus and mobos for the prices some people ask then Id never have to work again

It's bloody crazy. People asking $40-ish for p133's, $30ish for p100's, $10 per 8meg sim (roughly).
DO people actually buy this gear? Up until now I just thought it was clueless people not understanding that old doesnt necessarily mean retro/collectable, and trying to cash in on the popularity of retro gear, but the sheer volume of those sorts of auctions now makes me wonder.

[merlin1968]

My pet eBay peeve is when they saye 'Very Rare...' in the heading.

A1200's, A2000's, A4000 are NOT rare.

A1000's, A2000 Keyboards, x-surf cards and hens teeth... now they're rare!

(anybody got a A2000 keyboard (UK) going cheap??)

[Bamiga2002]

Is this for real? What's with Moonstone being so special?

[Kitty]

I personally don't think Moonstone is worth any more than £40 max in that condition. the seller knows that Moonstone is a well known Amiga game and has just added that price on the hope some fool will buy it.
If you look at the sellers other auctions you will see that other stuff he's selling is overpriced too.

[stevsurv]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Is this for real? What's with Moonstone being so special?

Interesting. I bought the same complete game from a friend in excellent condition with a working unwanted A500 and power supply, all for $50!

[mr.vince]

I want the carpet the photo was made on. Like new, just some minor wear. Eeeewww...

[brett71]

Or how about this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Shadow-of-th...item1c2a85f802

Selling it now for more than it retailed for back in 1992? And it's not even sealed, mint, NOS, or anything like that?

Or this one from the same seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Shadow-of-th...item1c2a7d405a

and it doesn't even include the T-shirt! That MIGHT have almost made it worth paying double the original retail price for.

[s2325]

If he has many software why they are untested? I think he can make better price with working versions. Answer may be - all his disks are dead.

[john1979]

Many sellers are using the "untested" word in the item description to get out of refunding buyers.

It doesn't matter what you write in the description, if the item is listed as operational in the condition statement, then it had better work.

Anyone who sells "untested" can only select "non-working" to match that.

[Arnie]

Wow!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Full-S...item19cba1390c

[scrappysphinx]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Wow!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Full-S...item19cba1390c

if you look at the sold ones though they were sold at 14.99
Maybe the seller has just run out and has raised the price to avoid people buying them until he has some more?

I could be wrong though and he could just be trying to see if anyone will buy them?

[freehand]

Originally Posted by john1979

Many sellers are using the "untested" word in the item description to get out of refunding buyers.

It doesn't matter what you write in the description, if the item is listed as operational in the condition statement, then it had better work.

Anyone who sells "untested" can only select "non-working" to match that.

Very true also e-bay will not tolerate "sold as seen" it means nothing to them and you are and will receive a total refund if in the condition statement does not match the item It makes absolutely no difference what you put in the description.

I made this mistake earlier this year I put untested and sold as seen but I used the wrong condition statement my fault and I lost the case.