I can't be the only person here who has noticed the ridiculous prices rises on ebay for certain machines over the past year or so and i'm wondering if this is the direct result of forums like this, and people getting into circuitbending.
Putting the outrageous cost of a VSS30 aside for a moment, about 3 years ago you could get a TR505 off ebay for about £20-£30 and you wouldn't be paying more than £30-£40 for a TR626. I've just done a check of completed items on ebay and the average cost of a 505 is now over £50 and anything up to £80-£90! A 626 will cost you from £60 to over £100!
Plainly people aren't buying this stuff for its music making potential as a normal machine. If they are then they are idiots.
If someone had said to me 5 years ago that i wouldn't be able to buy a speak & spell machine for under £25 i would have laughed at them.
£20 including shipping for a Casio SA1? Has anyone here ever paid more than £2 for an SA1?
I can't wait for the car boot sale season to start again. We seem to have priced ourselves out of the ebay market.