Merlin
Experienced Member
Hi,
I am Merlin, lead moderator and admin at Amibay, which is currently a free trading site dedicated to the Commodore Amiga. In December 2007, Mark "Tecno" Wilson decided he would wind up the Amibench site after 10 years and move onto other projects.
For those of us who detest the price driving and traders charging rip-off prices on the auction sites, this was bad news.
Once we had got over the mourning for Amibench, some of us over at Oldskool UK created a new site called Amibay over the Christmas period, as a fee free trading site for the Amiga and since December, it's gone from strength to strength, with over 300 members from all over the world.
We also have a killer idea in the Recycle Bin, where members can offer goods to others for just the cost of shipping; one man's junk is another man's treasure. Traders aren't allowed to use the Recycle Bin and we screen members to root out traders, who may be after a cheap source of hardware or software. If you visit the site, you can't see the Recycle Bin until we grant you access to it; clever, eh? This is how we keep traders at bay.
We feel that we shouldn't stop with just the old Miggy though; what I would like to guage is your opinions on expanding the site to other retro computer formats, to offer a serious alternative to the auction sites. The logical choice for the first expansion is the other Commodore machines such as the C64 etc, however, we would value your opinions.
Please take a look at www.amibay.com and let me know what you think, we would dearly like the idea to expand into the whole 8 and 16-bit retro areas that us old 'uns know and love.
Over to you for comments....
Merlin
I am Merlin, lead moderator and admin at Amibay, which is currently a free trading site dedicated to the Commodore Amiga. In December 2007, Mark "Tecno" Wilson decided he would wind up the Amibench site after 10 years and move onto other projects.
For those of us who detest the price driving and traders charging rip-off prices on the auction sites, this was bad news.
Once we had got over the mourning for Amibench, some of us over at Oldskool UK created a new site called Amibay over the Christmas period, as a fee free trading site for the Amiga and since December, it's gone from strength to strength, with over 300 members from all over the world.
We also have a killer idea in the Recycle Bin, where members can offer goods to others for just the cost of shipping; one man's junk is another man's treasure. Traders aren't allowed to use the Recycle Bin and we screen members to root out traders, who may be after a cheap source of hardware or software. If you visit the site, you can't see the Recycle Bin until we grant you access to it; clever, eh? This is how we keep traders at bay.
We feel that we shouldn't stop with just the old Miggy though; what I would like to guage is your opinions on expanding the site to other retro computer formats, to offer a serious alternative to the auction sites. The logical choice for the first expansion is the other Commodore machines such as the C64 etc, however, we would value your opinions.
Please take a look at www.amibay.com and let me know what you think, we would dearly like the idea to expand into the whole 8 and 16-bit retro areas that us old 'uns know and love.
Over to you for comments....
Merlin