Is this real? A C65 on ebay..

[Kakemoms]

On the German ebay only:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Commodore-65-C65-64DX-seltenes-Sammlerstuck-funktioniert-tested-working-/322339475294?hash=item4b0cee0f5e:g:9nsAAOSwj85YOAOs

from Poland apparently.. or just old pictures and a fraud?

 

[g4ugm]

Google does not produce any other sites with the same pics. Pictures are high resolution so unlikely to be really old. seller sold a c64 gold a year ago.

 

[gertk]

It is real and price is already going sky-high..
Only about 150 of these 'prototype' machines have been built.

 

[Kakemoms]

It is real and price is already going sky-high..
Only about 150 of these 'prototype' machines have been built.

Yea. Its already on 10K Euro. If I only had 20K for some toy shopping.. but that is probably not enough this time. :shocked:

 

[gertk]

Hmm.. not real after all ? Seller has removed the item because of an 'error' ... hmmm...

 

[crock]

I know the seller, he is active and respected in the Commodore community. The auction was completely genuine but it got pulled as the circumstances changed.

 

[alpher]

That's the email that I've got from him:
"Dear buyer,

I would like to thank you for participating in my auction for Commodore 65. As it turned out, I managed to fix the disk drive today so I do not want to sell the computer as damaged. I might sell the computer later on as fully working, in which case a new auction with a new description will be necessary.

Thank you for your understanding and I hope you get some other nice Commodore gear for Christmas
"
So we may still be able to buy it at later date.
A fully funcional C65 wow!

 

[Kakemoms]

Well, at 10 or 20K + you can probably fill a room with those diskdrives. I doubt it will affect the price!

 

[crock]

it'll will affect it, as the assumption was it was the drive controller logic on the main-board that had the fault, not the floppy mechanism, meaning you could not load and save anything.