Reply 60 of 143, by brostenen
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Supply and demand. At some point a specific item were extremely common and thought of as trash. Those who get into the game early, get the best prices.
Yes. Amiga's are not cheap any more. And that is happening to C64's as well. Voodoo cards, ISA sound cards, external MIDI modules, 286 to Pentium3 and even Pentium4 these days. Are all becoming eighter extremely rare on the market or the demand are still higher than the actual numbers on the market. I have seen Amiga1200's go up by 150% to 200% during the pandemic. Like 540 Euro for a cosmetic good example though pure stock and Kickstart 3.0 and not recapped. Then comes the accelerators. Blizzard-030 ones with 16/32mb Ram for as high as 604 Euro a pop. Good thing we have TF-1230 and Tsunami-1230 these days. They are like 1/3 of that price or something for a brand new and not 30 years old. But yeah, back in 2004/2005 you were able to find an Amiga1200 with accelerator and PCMCIA-SCSI controller for around 34 to 54 Euro if you wanted to pick it up. Back then they were considered trash, and if not sold for low price, they would be thrown out and recycled. That lowered the numbers even more. Not to speak of gold scrappers, that destroyed all them Pentium-Pro CPU's, because of the gold content. That drove the prices up for everyone. Both collectors and gold scrappers.
Hence supply and demand, drives prices up. And yes, you can always spot those that find something old, and think that it is worth tons of money.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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