Boxes? what is the thing??

[utri007]

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php...carton-box-new

Replica cartoon BOX :O when I get something, boxes are first to go bin. I'm NOT a box collector.

I really can't understand why keep boxes?

[lesta_smsc]

With a box. The Amiga sells for more. Have you not seen the CD32 box go for nearly £80! Lol

[Daedalus]

Everyone has different interests in different things. There are a large number of people who would throw the Amiga in the bin - after all, it's just an obsolete bit of electronics, long since surpassed in capability. If you can understand why people keep Amigas, you can understand why they keep boxes.

[Nightshft]

Although sometimes they cost a little even without box

Link

Edit: 70 euro for a replica cardboard box really is astonishing.

[Hedeon]

Yeah, when I clean out a house and I come across all kinds of Atari and commodore stuff I throw away all the commodore stuff. I am NOT an old inferior electronics collector.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Yeah, when I clean out a house and I come across all kinds of Atari and commodore stuff I throw away all the commodore stuff. I am NOT an old inferior electronics collector.

Strange, for my part, i send throught the video straight in the garbage all atari shits, since i don't allow shits in mah house

[utri007]

All my Amigas are in use, so keeping them boxed would be diffiult. Box collector doesn't use or play their machines. They are collectors, not a hobbyists.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by utri007

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php...carton-box-new

Replica cartoon BOX :O when I get something, boxes are first to go bin. I'm NOT a box collector.

I really can't understand why keep boxes?

No, you really can't. I often buy old amiga games BECAUSE of the boxes and I do not care if disks are working. Everyone has different interests.

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Yeah, when I clean out a house and I come across all kinds of Atari and commodore stuff I throw away all the commodore stuff. I am NOT an old inferior electronics collector.

Please share your finds on here. I am sure someone would happily pay for them... And if it was just for shipping I would!

[Rich_hard1]

Newly manufactured ‘look a like’ boxes don’t make your Amiga any more valuable. Original boxes do.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by Rich_hard1

Newly manufactured ‘look a like’ boxes don’t make your Amiga any more valuable. Original boxes do.

But people are just asking for those boxes, for their own use. There was a project here on EAB for production of those replicas.

[Unkown]

Originally Posted by utri007

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php...carton-box-new

Replica cartoon BOX :O when I get something, boxes are first to go bin. I'm NOT a box collector.

I really can't understand why keep boxes?

Yeah i dont understand why ????


And this one is a bloody "replica" just pathetic..

[Dastardly]

Originally Posted by Predseda

No, you really can't. I often buy old amiga games BECAUSE of the boxes and I do not care if disks are working. Everyone has different interests.

I'm the same. I buy C64 cassette games and it doesn't matter to me whether they work or not as I play the games from an SD card. I just like to own the physical games.

As someone else said - everyone has different interests.

[spiff]

I can play pretty much any Amiga game ever released, whenever I want.

What I can't do these days is wander by rows and rows of big boxes with cheesy art, inhale that papery floppy smell and try to figure out if its a good game by squinting at the tiny screen shot on the back. That's why I love going to retro gatherings, for an hour or so I feel like a kid in a candy store.


Not that I'd ever want go back to waiting 6 months for a game to get to my local store and pay $60, just to find out that it was another cover disk inflated review score.

[Nightshft]

Originally Posted by spiff

What I can't do these days is wander by rows and rows of big boxes with cheesy art, inhale that papery floppy smell and try to figure out if its a good game by squinting at the tiny screen shot on the back.

I just don't have the space for a lot of boxes in my hobby room, otherwise I could totally relate to that!