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[Sig999]

save2600 wrote:
Just don't ask yourself why, when you bring up The Amiga computer to someone, they look at you like you're a dolt from another planet. Perhaps they know something we don't ;-)

I don't wonder.
I assume they read something like this.... or the other thread.

[reflect]

It's hard to see who's responding to who in this forum

I know the original point, a professional seller letting off an inappropriate remark. However that wasn't the point I tried to make here.

I wanted to make it clear that the comparison you did to the PC and Mac forums, just isn't valid. You can never compare us (well, maybe against the vintage PPC stuff) cause the PC boards aren't that interesting or special to begin with.

THAT's my point, and that's all I'm trying to get across.

[save2600]

@ Reflect:

The point *IS* valid. Almost all points are valid here. Don't you see? We're all {bleep}ing about nothing and everything at the same time. It's all petty. I'd love to be done with this. But then, someone like you comes out of the woodwork,
MIS-dissects a sentence and moans some more. It'd be great if the last thread died. But it didn't. I apologised, but I came back and saw that MOST people still don't get it. This thread, like the last one, has turned into something absurd.

Gosh - I'm thinking about selling off ALL my Amiga stuff right about now... LOL!

[LoadWB]

save2600 wrote:

People in possession of Amiga gear (ex dealers, ex hobbyists, ex video production users, ex Amiga zealots, etc)., are simply NOT going to be throwing their old hardware in the landfill. Whoever proposed that unlikely scenario needs more experience in life, ePay, Webforums, Usenet and the like.

/me waves his hand. Uhmmm, I would, and have. And I have been given much grief about it.

The bottom line for me is that I have had, and still have, equipment that I cannot get people to take for just shipping. After a few years of not being used and not being able to give it away, I toss it. It makes me sad to do so, but it has to happen. I simply cannot be storage for someone who might one day decide he or she needs some piece of kit that I have. I absolutely refuse to be one of those sad phuqrs with a storage room or table full of stuff at the flea market.

And I just do not have the time to put things up on eBay anymore. I did once before, started all of my auctions at $0.01, and many of them still did not sell.

So I, for one, would and have thrown Amiga stuff away. And I've been called names for it by many of the same people who still would not take my stuff for shipping. (And I am not interested in enumerating what equipment I have left right now... if I had that time available, I might put them up on AmiBay or eBay.)

:horse:

[LoadWB]

Plaz wrote:
With so much non-news, bad news, vapor news in Amiga land, it's not suprising these type threads snag so much attention, we're bored I guess.

It is true! And it is sad that we lose more mature and disciplined members of the community all the time. We all, myself included, have much to learn.

Happily, I do not see anything like this in the TI community.

Someone needs to hit the lottery and bail out the Amiga. Can I send my request to Congress?

[EvilGuy]

Just when you think the Amiga community can't sink any lower.. :-(

Reds posts were great, his gear was well priced and he even gave us here a chance to grab things before it went to ebay and other sites.

I really hope he doesn't leave! :-)

[cv643d]

Wayne wrote:

... anyone wanna buy a slightly abused web site while you're at it?

Wayne

How much do you want for amiga.org?

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cv643d wrote:

How much do you want for amiga.org?

Considering the 15 year investment, more than anyone wants to offer, but half of what I used to.

Wayne

[lorddef]

Can we close this up now please?

@Redrumloa; don't leave over a little bickering, it happens. I give everyone involved the permission to go and have a beer and forget about it.

@Others; Look back at red's posts, 99.9% of them are genuinely interesting amiga posts. Once he's gone there will be a higher percentage of toss from the idiots who still like to bang on about A.inc next year, blue and red wars etc.

@Wayne; Waaay too cheap ;-)