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Crazy VIC-20 prices in Australia

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Kerosene

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Please tell me this is a crazy price to pay for a VIC-20 (AUD $192).
Item #220567805667

Am I missing something here? There's nothing special about this VIC is there?
My search for an Australian PAL VIC-20 continues....

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It seems high, but it only takes two bidders who really want something (and can't wait) to inflate the price like this. At least the seller got a good deal out of it!
 
Aussie VICs only come up on eBay about once a month, but I've never seen one go for that much.
We're obviously getting pretty desperate for VIC-20s down here.
 
Two loose ones on Swedish Tradera right now. More than a week to go, so it is way too early to know where they'll end. Current bids equal 4-5 AUD each though.
 
To give you a comparison of sorts -
In the past 2 weeks on eBay (U.S.) 10 Commodore VIC-20's have sold for an overall average price of $25.
So, basically they are dirt cheap hereabouts. Let's see, I bought my VIC-20 off eBay in April of 2008 with a like new 1530 (CN2) cassette deck for the price of $10.50 - also included was a like new 1541 disk drive, (not pictured.)

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2527

I guess it's just - supply and demand that regulates prices. Commodore must have sold millions of the VIC-20's in the U.S.A.
 
They sold a lot of them in Europe too, so not a matter of the computer being uncommon or anything like that. Not sure about Australia but since we share TV system, it is only a matter of shipping costs.
 
Four Vic 20s on Sale in New Zealand in the last 6 months. One sold for $NZ 36, another for $NZ 26, one for NZ$10.50 and the other was passed in at $80 (i.e. no one bidded).

1 NZ$ = 0.70 US approx

Tez
 
Weird. I can recall when nobody wanted the things. One of the local surplus places couldn't get rid of them for $1 each.

What next? Plus/4s for $100?
 
I guess the Vic-20s do have historic value.

They were the first of the "home"-"sound and graphics"-plug-into-your-TV colour computers aimed at the low-price mass consumer market.

Tez
 
A couple of months ago someone from Amelia Island was offering one on Craigs List for around $20-$25. I passed it up. Didn't think it was worth the cost in gasoline to get it.
 
I sold a vic-20 and vic-1541 in the usa for 50.00 plus shipping. The main difference compared to all the others listed at the time was that I actually hooked it up and tested it.
Photographed it working, and included a floppy disk of games I downloaded off zimmers. I put 50 as a buy it now and it sold in a day or so.
For an untested vic, I won't pay more than 15.00. (Parts machine)

later,
dabone
 
Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I thought you guys in Europe would like to know that the crazy prices are still going strong in AU.
You're sitting on a potential gold mine over there :D

I'm still trying to find a local "basher/daily driver" VIC-20, but the prices are just silly!

This one just sold for $90, with NO cables, no box, no nothing.
Item #260732801049

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I saw that one on Ebay. I even tossed in a half-hearted bid, but was not the winner. I was after another early model VIC like this one.
There are one or two CR version VICs on ebay right now. Current bid is 99c. I think its in Melbourne too.
 
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