The only problem is if you start pissing and moaning... Nobody here is owed anything, and nobody would've given two f*cks about Kaijuboy if he hadn't started ranting about how much this place sucks.
I think this is a pretty universal complaint across all forums, regardless of topics. Reading his posts, I don't see him saying anything about the forums sucks, yet I may have missed that. However, those weren't the complaints listed by vestcoat. The complaints listed by vestcoat centered around Kaijuboy's buying and selling of items.
People who are going to pay way over the odds, thus justifying high prices and raising the general price for the rest of us
As an intro, I am far more active on reddit's r/gamecollecting. There, I try and combat this mentality with as much as I can. First of all, this idea is extremely selfish. A seller lists something on Ebay at a price he wants. Then, a buyer has the choice of buying it or waiting for a lower price. The buyer's decision is based on his or her personal discretionary income, desire for the item, and many other factors, none of which are your business. The idea that the price you want to pay should be factored into a buyers decision is just 100% pure self-interest.
Now, if video games were an essential commodity, such as food, water, clothing, shelter, etc, then I would see a problem. (My personal belief is that everyone in society should have access to those.) However, video games are nowhere near necessity. A man earning, lets say, $100,000 a year at his job has every right to spend his extra income how he sees fit. Additionally, given that an hour of his time is worth $50 (assuming 50wk 40hr work week), it doesn't behoove him to spend 2 hours on ebay to save $20. He just lost $80, technically speaking. You expect him to behave in a way that benefits you. He loses $80 so you don't have to spend extra money.
People who are gonna hoard games and never play them (hence a disparagement of people who mainly post in sales threads). We're all about the PCE/TG16, and we would prefer to talk to people about the games, the homebrew and the technical aspects. I've learned 95% of what I know from hanging out here.
Who cares what a person does with their games? Why is this any of your business?
People who are going to take advantage of low prices here to build a collection, and then sell off the entire thing months later for a huge profit. And with someone who has no interest in playing their collection (see point 2) is all the more likely to sell it. There have been some rad guys who, with money concerns, have offered their stuff back to the community at cost.
This does suck. People using the forums just to profit because people are nice here is just bad karma. Swiss870 is a good example. However, I think that this is a different argument than the one you presented earlier.
And lastly, it's not 100% guaranteed, but someone who wants every game for every system probably
a) Doesn't love the Turbo all that much and
I love the TG-16, its one of my fav things to collect now. However, it shouldn't be a prerequisite for collecting.
