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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #76 on: January 13, 2011, 07:14:33 PM »

i could possibly imagine ONE bid for £102 on an MR10 as there are a fair few idiots in the world, but 12 bids!

i like the phrase 'SUIT COLLECTOR, OR AN EXTRA PIECE OF KIT FOR YOUR YOUR STUDIO'. I see actually using it for its musical abilities is secondary.
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #77 on: January 30, 2011, 09:49:52 PM »

The same seller thats buying up every single TR505 on ebay and relisting them for £99 is now doing the same with every single Boss DR110 and relisting them for £139! Two DR110's sold today for £50 and £61 respectively, whats the betting they will appear in his shop next week.

In fact i can't believe that this guy ever actually sells anything at the insane prices he's trying to charge. £119 for a Roland R5, £300 for a Boss Slow Gear pedal, £70 for a Boss DR220E, £180 for a Roland R8!

This one guy is buying up just about everything and making it impossible for people to get hold of anything at an even halfway reasonable price.

I'm reluctant to even give him the advertising of a link but heres his shop should you want to be unpleasantly astounded that anyone would pay these prices http://stores.ebay.co.uk/birminghambossboutique
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #78 on: January 31, 2011, 04:36:16 PM »

thing is people will pay, eventually when they feel they have no choice.  I paid some silly prices for things (though they dont seem so bad now) because i got obsessed by the i must have this at any price syndrome.  Like any good past time it soon gets eaten up by folk making a fast buck, i'm not saying it's wrong to sell stuff you've made or mod stuff for other people for money.  Its just sneaky that people buy up already poor stocks of 'popular' machines with the purpose of cashing in, it makes it hard for people to move beyond bending kids keyboards, because they cant afford to, the people that do this kind of thing piss me off because they obviously dont care about others involved in circuit bending they just wanna nudge up prices.

REVOLUTION people! dont pay these stupid prices and they will have to drop if no-one buys them!  Paul to answer your other question about why cram 50 mods onto a seriously inadequate machine, its because no-one can afford 140quid to maybe fuck up a dr110 and even 505s are getting out of peoples grasp (they were 25 quid when i started!)...........ok rant over, phew
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #79 on: February 02, 2011, 09:09:21 AM »

These 8-bit digital drum machines are shit, too.  You can build better ones.
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #80 on: February 21, 2011, 06:35:02 PM »

These 8-bit digital drum machines are shit, too.  You can build better ones.
:D are u in the forum saying that  :o 8bit
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #81 on: February 21, 2011, 10:18:40 PM »

how many bits should you pay for 8 bits?
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #82 on: February 22, 2011, 09:51:38 AM »

Give me around 1.5 seconds of samples - 2 seconds, if you don't mind *really* low quality - and I'll give you some code to blow into an Arduino.  Real Genuine 8-Bit Sampling (tm), with easy-to-use glitchy circuit-bending effects.
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #84 on: June 20, 2011, 09:38:54 PM »

the worlds sanity if safe as long as no one actually buys it
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #85 on: June 21, 2011, 12:32:28 AM »

but its a very rare and hard to find bit of equipment and the battery door is NOT missing!
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #86 on: June 27, 2011, 09:24:20 AM »

How much should I expect to pay for a Yamaha CS01 Mk II, in extremely good cosmetic condition, with original breatcontroller + the little bag for it + original box, but without original power supply ?

Just of curiosity, because I will by it anyways.
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #87 on: June 27, 2011, 11:14:55 AM »

about 1/3rd of what you're going to pay?
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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #88 on: June 27, 2011, 12:45:57 PM »

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Re: Ridiculous ebay price rises on unbent machines
« Reply #89 on: June 27, 2011, 02:44:19 PM »

Oh come on  :-\
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