brostenen wrote:

Yeah... I hear you. I am not going to give my honest opinion this time though.
Because last time I opened my mouth on this subject, someone gave me a slight negative comment for saying what I feel on this subject.

I think that was probably me and I apologise if I worded my post harshly, I certainly don't want to be responsible for discouraging people from posting their opinions! This subject does tend to get my motor runnng though; people seem to have this idea that old computer parts should be cheap and that anyone buying / selling at what they consider inflated prices are idiots / greedy.

I put the value of my stuff into context by comparing it to every day stuff. My big ticket items (Roland sound,etc) are worth - based on eBay prices - about the same as I spend at the supermarket every fortnight (4 person family).

And like kithylin mentioned, the times I've sold stuff for profit I've turned around and poured that cash back into more retro stuff, which is what I assume most people in this biz do when they come across a windfall 😎

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brostenen wrote:

Yeah... I hear you. I am not going to give my honest opinion this time though.
Because last time I opened my mouth on this subject, someone gave me a slight negative comment for saying what I feel on this subject.

I think that was probably me and I apologise if I worded my post harshly, I certainly don't want to be responsible for discouraging people from posting their opinions! This subject does tend to get my motor runnng though; people seem to have this idea that old computer parts should be cheap and that anyone buying / selling at what they consider inflated prices are idiots / greedy.

I put the value of my stuff into context by comparing it to every day stuff. My big ticket items (Roland sound,etc) are worth - based on eBay prices - about the same as I spend at the supermarket every fortnight (4 person family).

And like kithylin mentioned, the times I've sold stuff for profit I've turned around and poured that cash back into more retro stuff, which is what I assume most people in this biz do when they come across a windfall 😎

Yep.. like last summer I found a voodoo3 + voodoo5 for < $20 each at a store locally. Went and hawked em online then used the profits to turn around and bought some stuff for I think it was my AthlonXP computer, and a sexy 939 motherboard.

A "new in box" Voodoo3 3000 for the low low price of $9,229.99 🤣!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-in-BOX-VINTAGE-Vo … l8AAOSw5VFWI9tB

brassicGamer wrote:

For those who hadn't noticed...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acclaim-Iguana-Ente … OMAAOSw-0xYfWxe

That has the only copy of the Turok source code outside of Nightdive Studios.

MrEWhite wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

For those who hadn't noticed...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acclaim-Iguana-Ente … OMAAOSw-0xYfWxe

That has the only copy of the Turok source code outside of Nightdive Studios.

From the main thread:

leileilol wrote:

Not exactly a huge find unless it's a totally different earlier revision. Turok's source was legally found and used to help complete and iron out the kinks in the recent Turok port

Does this mean an external source or an internal source, I wonder. If external, it suggests the source is available through other channels.

cj_reha wrote:

A "new in box" Voodoo3 3000 for the low low price of $9,229.99 🤣!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-in-BOX-VINTAGE-Vo … l8AAOSw5VFWI9tB

Never expected these to ever cost over 9000 🤣

brassicGamer wrote:

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MrEWhite wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

For those who hadn't noticed...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acclaim-Iguana-Ente … OMAAOSw-0xYfWxe

That has the only copy of the Turok source code outside of Nightdive Studios.

From the main thread:

leileilol wrote:

Not exactly a huge find unless it's a totally different earlier revision. Turok's source was legally found and used to help complete and iron out the kinks in the recent Turok port

Does this mean an external source or an internal source, I wonder. If external, it suggests the source is available through other channels.

Again, only Nightdive has the code.

$4,000 Thermaltake case from the mid 2000s

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THERMALTAKE-VA8000BWS … SgAAOSwmLlX-oj5

$1800 IBM Model M http://www.ebay.com/itm/1394950-NEW-OLD-STOCK … tcAAOSwfl9XBVnP

I love Model M keyboards, but that's just crazy.

Intel Cpu Pentium 4 670 - $978.53 http://www.ebay.com/itm/122326920300

Maybe we need a thread for listings by people with no idea. This guy wants over £115 for some 20ns cache, a Pentium gold top, a Willamette, a Coppermine and a couple of 486SXs. He claims they're all in perfect working order but this lot would be difficult to test for most of us collectors, let alone some random in Kent. I certainly don't have a socket 5 or 423 board. Plus the fact he's consistently misspelled Winbond is also a concern as it shows he has no idea what he's talking about and seems to think that's the main item in the lot!

Maybe someone will make him an offer...

cj_reha wrote:

A "new in box" Voodoo3 3000 for the low low price of $9,229.99 🤣!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-in-BOX-VINTAGE-Vo … l8AAOSw5VFWI9tB

I left him a 8k offer to see what would happen.
The seller sent me an offer asking if I was serious for offering the price.

If he takes the offer ill cancel the order. Listing a voodoo3 for 9k and you got that coming.

Haha, the guy selling the voodoo is a scammer. He wants my phone number before tacking my offer.

Jade Falcon wrote:

Haha, the guy selling the voodoo is a scammer. He wants my phone number before tacking my offer.

That's not how ebay works. You just accept offer and ship it.

No it's not. I told him I'm unwilling to deal outside of eBay. Now he wants me to submit an offer via a message.
Don't know what to think of this nut... but I'll probably get eBay to ban him within 48 hours if he keeps this up.

People like him need to be taught that listing stuff like this for crazy prices makes others believe there worth that much. Think if a few people did this with vibra 16s? We'd end up with everyone coming out of the woodworks asking hundreds for what's a 10$ sound card. 😵

That and in a little board and have nothing going on the weekend.
Probably should just leave the guy alone. But listing a 2-300$ card for 9k? Yeah you got something coming.

Jade Falcon wrote:

No it's not. I told him I'm unwilling to deal outside of eBay. Now he wants me to submit an offer via a message.
Don't know what to think of this nut... but I'll probably get him off eBay in 48 hours.

Message him and refer him to this directly: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam- … -ebay-sale.html

Then goto his listing and click the report item thing on the item's page and report it as fraudulent.

Attempting a sale outside of ebay is expressly forbidden and is in direct violation of ebay policies, and considered fraud.

Will be. I just want to see if he brakes any other eBay policy's first.

Haha, I requested the order be canceled and the nut is getting really mad. Keep it up and your be off eBay soon. 🤣

kithylin wrote:

Intel Cpu Pentium 4 670 - $978.53 http://www.ebay.com/itm/122326920300

oh damn, that is extremenly overpriced. I got mine for only 14 €