What's happening over at Amiga Kit?

[miggymad]

I reckon all these people with outstanding orders have been funding the birth of the A600GS without their knowledge ...

So far I have yet to see any evidence to the contrary on this.

So some polite advice to anyone reading this thread and contemplating buying something from AmigaKit - don't, it might be you next posting a complaint and fighting to get your money back.

 

[Jameson]

Update, I have now asked twice more for AmigaKit to advise if they will be sending my order, or refunding me..... still no reply.

I will be sharing this thread with other Amiga forums so that as many Amiga users as possible can avail themselves of the events transpiring.

 

[Aeberbach]

Start jumping into their "A600 Updates and Free Advertising" threads, that will get some attention.

 

[Jameson]

UPDATE - I have received a refund for the second refurbished Amiga 1200 motherboard I ordered in February from AmigaKit. I have requested my AmigaKit be closed and confirmation sent when done (have not received this yet).

After some of the most appalling and inept "service" (and I use the term VERY loosely) I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing in my 30+ years of Amiga computing, I am quite frankly relieved that I will not have to ever deal with AmigaKit again - and it only ended up costing me an A1200 motherboard, stress, time and a lot of grey hair.

I hope as many Amiga users as possible get to read this thread in the future so that they may be forewarned as to what kind of experience they can likely expect before electing to do business with them. At least something good may come of all this.

As previously mentioned, I will be making the faulty A1200 motherboard I received available to purchase shortly to anyone interested in fixing it.

 

[qz3fwd]

Yeah posting on the threads for the 600GS they are peddling could possibly get them to wake up and improve their behaviors?

 

[Jameson]

I have now (after asking again) received confirmation my AmigaKit account is closed, and to be brutally honest - good riddance. With companies like Alinea, Amiga On The Lake, Sordan, RetroKit and Amigastore.eu (to name but a few), there is no reason why ANYONE should have to deal with a company like AmigaKit anymore.

I hope anyone else with outstanding orders has more luck having them fulfilled.

 

[JeffreyD]

0n July 15th, 2023, I ordered a refurbished a1200 motherboard. I never got it. I have tried to contact them through support@amigakit and sales@amigakit a number of times. I hope this can be resolved by a refund or using order money to get something else at AmigaKit like th a600gs. I hope to hear from them.

 

[Boing-ball]

0n July 15th, 2023, I ordered a refurbished a1200 motherboard. I never got it. I have tried to contact them through support@amigakit and sales@amigakit a number of times. I hope this can be resolved by a refund or using order money to get something else at AmigaKit like th a600gs. I hope to hear from them.

Worth joining and mentioning over on Amiga.org. A similar thread here on awaiting goods and response:

is Amigakit/Amiga Store on break? - Page 1

is Amigakit/Amiga Store on break? - Page 1

forum.amiga.org

 

[JeffreyD]

Worth joining and mentioning over on Amiga.org. A similar thread here on awaiting goods and response:

is Amigakit/Amiga Store on break? - Page 1

is Amigakit/Amiga Store on break? - Page 1

forum.amiga.org

I just tried to register but I get an error on password and reason for joining.

 

[JeffreyD]

Thank You!!!

 

[discreetfx]

Anyone have luck getting the A600GS? I believe AmigaKit is the only source for getting that system.

 

[Jameson]

Silly question.... but why would you actually want one? It's just a emulation box - just like a Raspberry Pi running Amiberry.

In fact, the guts of the system is an Orange Pi Zero 3 which sports an Allwinner H618 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-core @ 1.5GHz.... which makes it an emulation box that is actually less powerful than an A500 mini....

 

[Boing-ball]

Anyone have luck getting the A600GS? I believe AmigaKit is the only source for getting that system.

Basically it’s being developed and sold by Amigakit.

I take it you are aware of the 1200NG board also?

A1200NG Updates - Page 1

A1200NG Updates - Page 1

forum.amiga.org

 

[cloverskull]

I have an A600GS. No issues for me getting one.

 

[alexh]

I have an A600GS. No issues for me getting one.

Me neither. I bought my A600GS on launch and it came next day.

the guts of the system is an Orange Pi Zero 3 which makes it an emulation box that is actually less powerful than an A500 mini....

I have both. The A500 mini is (IMO) DRAM capacity and DRAM bandwidth limited for emulating high end Amiga's. The A600GS has a much faster DRAM interface and more DRAM. They are very similar but A600GS *just* beats it (despite on paper having a slightly lower CPU MHz)

0n July 15th, 2023, I ordered a refurbished a1200 motherboard. I never got it. I have tried to contact them through support@amigakit and sales@amigakit a number of times. I hope this can be resolved by a refund or using order money to get something else at AmigaKit like the a600gs. I hope to hear from them.

I hope you got sorted. All my orders from Amigakit have come within a few days of ordering. (A600GS, Black A1200 case, Pistorm16, Pistorm32 Lite, GreaseWeazel, CDTV controller, A630@30, A603, Buffered IDE adapter). However I've never ordered anything like "a 32 year old reconditioned motherboard" which presumably adds an extra risk of delays should they find a problem when testing prior to dispatch? Absolutely no excuse for poor communication or poor customer service.

 

[mariovieira]

Hi!

Just a quick question, if I may… Did anyone here ever bought anything from Amigakit.fr (in France or Luxembourg, can’t tell)?

I order an item there because it was the only place that had it in EU. According to the website it’s in stock. Also sent an e-mail with a couple of questions but received no answer. Only received the PayPal payment e-mail, since you can’t create an account on the website.

Ordered other stuff from amigastore.eu and Alinea Computer the same day. The following day both shipped my orders.

Is it time for me to start worrying or is this normal and I’m jumping the gun?

 

[Amiga Forever]

How long have you wait for your order?

 

[mariovieira]

Not long at all, but reading about some of the feedback here and on other forums, just wanted an opinion as I can’t find information of anyone that ever made a purchase on the French website. That and the fact that seems reasonable to me to expect an answer to an e-mail after one or two days, specially because depending on that answer I could add one or two things to my order.

 

[Buzzfuzz]

On July 19 I ordered 2 LED boards with all of them red for the A1200 16mm cause of A1200.net cases, August went by and still nothing, after a few emails I got a message from customs in the beginning of September adding about 8 euro to 21.63 pounds for 2 LED boards.
Arrived 11 September.

Now I while I am not in a hurry with anything Amiga related, let's be honest here, 2 LED boards are made in a few hours, okay lets take a full day for those to be made and then put on the mail.
I can imagine customs taking there sweet time, but that doesn't explain more than a month of what ?

I'm happy they arrived anyway, but I wonder why it took so long ?

 

[qz3fwd]

Come on those LED boards surely are made in batches. If AmigaKit builds each just in time they are fools.