I think guyjin said it best:
there is absolutely nothing wrong with Roy trying to make as much money as he can off his loose one.
There is something wrong with it when he got it off of one of us for far less than its epay value. Consider the following:
There is a village. You live in this village. people grow stuff, raise animals, make tools, etc. they trade amongst themselves; because it's in their best interest for the village to thrive, they sell their goods for less than they would in the big city market.
Then some kid comes along, buys a bunch of stuff from his neighbors so he can 'have a feast', but then runs off to the big city market to make big bucks off their stuff. He comes back with bags of money, and repeats the cycle. Soon, all the villagers have to go to the big city market, or charge big city prices themselves. There is no more advantage to living in the village; soon, they'll migrate to the big city, and the village will just be a bunch of rotten shacks where a community once lived.
As a community we've always prided ourselves at having the ability to be a "few miles from the big city" as guyjin put it, and with that having the ability to fairly trade amongst ourselves as just a bunch of people that love to play TurboGrafx games. What might come across as animosity towards you, RoyVegas, is a certain global disdain that most members here share for a certain type of "big city" (eBay) seller that artificially inflates pricing by posting BIN auctions listed with ridiculous price points. Many of them know these items will never be sold, but they let them sit there and fester for years on end. The
effect of this is being played out before us, right here, as we speak, in this thread. Newcomers to the scene resort (and the true effectiveness of this can be debated) to eBay first as a "pricing guide" for this kind of thing, figuring (as you did) that shit, if this is what people are charging, and paying, it must be what these games are worth. What you don't consider though, is that the people paying these inflated prices are the same poor saps that were led up the garden path by the inflated BINs set by sellers that set them that way to have that precise effect. The sad thing is, that it works. It's a circular system that has no perceivable beginning or end; I've observed this happening over the past 8 or so years with Turbo games, since I joined eBay in 2001, and every time I think we've hit the top the ridiculousness hits new heights. I highly doubt your intentions in this case were in line with the aforementioned scumbag sellers, but the effect is the same, and your situation is compounded by a reason I'll touch on below.
This community is quick to accept newcomers into the fold, RoyVegas, but you'll find it just as quick to chastise those who betray it. There is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with putting games up on eBay to make a quick buck, or to try and profit a few dollars from a sweet score you've made in the past. Don't expect to make a lot of friends, however, when you show up asking for help in tracking down an elusive title only to turn around and post it back up for sale in the "big city" at a 600% markup (purely an example; I don't pretend to know how much you're really trying to make). Most people here are willing to cut killer deals for fellow community members; members they know will play the hell out of the game, love it, and see it utilized to its full potential. I realize you didn't actually buy the game from a member here, but members here aided in tracking down a copy for you (forgoing, in the process, the chance to buy said copy for themselves). I can't say I blame the community at large for being a little put off when the time came for you to turn around and sell that game, that instead of turning it loose back on the community, you opted for the "big city" approach, at the same time feeding that circular system that can be thanked for making a certain percentage of Turbo gaming simply unaffordable for a portion of the community.
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