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- From: brad_barnett@intergate.bc.ca (brad barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Video Toaster 2000 F.S.
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 02:22:39 GMT
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- >brad barnett (brad_barnett@intergate.bc.ca) wrote:
- >: >The price is a little high but reasonable. I don't have a need for one
- >: >but just so everyone knows a 2000 VT board alone can sell as much as
- >: >$1100. I know, I'm a dealer and they come and go all the time.
- >:
- >: VT2000 boards may sometimes go for $1100 US.. but that just means
- >: someone is getting ripped off. Considering an update to the VT software
- >: (to
- >: 4.0) is about 700 US, and a NEW 4000VT is only 2499 US, I find it hard to
- >: believe anyone would pay more than 800 bucks for one...
-
- >Not a year ago >>>I<<< bought a VT2000 card with 3.1 software for $1100,
- >even when I knew that prices were as low as $500 for such a beast. I did
- >it because I knew it would make me money and it was just an investment
- >for my business..I have no regrets..neither would anyone who paid such
- >for one now as if it's all you can afford...and it's _available_ then that's
- >all that counts(I don't see the $200 VT cards much...do YOU).
- ^^^^^^ Do you see $200 VT listed above
- anywhere.. I don't.. I do see $800 US above... hmmm
-
- >700 bucks for the upgrage??? That's funny..I just saw it for $495 in
- Add tax.. add shipping... ok $600 US..
- considering you're quoting a low price...
-
- >Amazing Amiga(or somphtin' like that)...if you pay $700 then _you're_
- >getting ripped off. And btw...since I have see some NEW VT2000 cards w/
- >3.1(maybe 3.5) sell for $2395 recently I don't think that it's such a bad
- ^ WHAT .. that's a RIP OFF! Then new vt4000 card
- retails for $3199 CDN... that's 2200-2300 US... whoever sold VT2000 cards for
- that price just STOLE ... PERIOD
-
- >thing to ask $1k for something you paid almost 3 grand for...even if
- ^^^ I paid 20000 for my new
- car 10 years ago, does that mean its worth 10 grand now?????
-
- >there is supposedly a VT4000 selling for $2499(lowest I've seen is around
- >$2800).
- ^^^ Call Newtek, or Softwarehut, or anyone, and ask..... it helps
-
- >If this is the attitude that you hold...how about selling me your
- >computer system for 1/4 of what you paid for it??? It happens to IBM
- ^^^ Think of what the a500 cost 8 years ago.. hell, you
- can't see it for anything now... you take that sort of loss ALL the time in
- the computer industry, and there's nothing you can do about it
-
-
- >systems all the time...I mean I can buy 486 systems(FULL systems w/lots
- >of mem,etc) for like $350....how about say $700 for an A4000/040 fully
- >loaded???(I have yet to see an A4k go for less than $1500 and it was
- >stripped then...and 030) You think that Video Toaster card for $700 is
- >such a bad deal now??
-
- Nope.. never said it was.. what ARE you talking out.. drinking when you wrote
- this?
-
- >You just need some perspective on the business opportunity value of the
- >Toaster...I mean I could sell mine for $1000...or I could keep it another
- >month and make $1500 from it's USE...which is the better deal?? Do I _wanna_
- >sell it if I can do that?? And considering the person I would sell it to
- >would have the same opportunity...why drop to 1/2 of what I/they would make
- >from it in a months time??
-
- Sure... go with the market... but I'll make DAMN sure everyone knows how much
- better it would be to go with new, when the old isn't NEAR the same quality...
- and value for the price... look at the specs of the VT2000 and VT4000 cards
- side by side, the version of the software they come with, and the possible
- future use of both boards, then come back and talk to me..
-
-
- >Just my 666 cents worth
-
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- Brad Barnett - bbarnett@intergate.bc.ca
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