AND NOW SEE WHAT HE'S DOING WITH HIS GREAT 1000 BUCK PURCHASE!!!
http://www.ebay.ch/itm/King-Of-Fighters-2000-Neo-Geo-AES-Great-Condition-Complete-Us-Version-/251070019345?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3a74f07711
turned its price up by 30 times!! f*ck that guy!
Oh wow, shit, what a find! Good work, Tatsujin! Hahah! Somebody was paying attention! So I was right; he tells me he thanked the guy repeatedly for giving him the pleasure of paying $1000 bucks for it and I asked him, did you thank him because you think you can flip it for a lot more
He didn't answer my question, but you just went and found his listing!!!!! His markups are 30 to 200 times what he paid, so I stand by my "criminal profiteer" assessment! It's not amoral; the clear immoral aspect to it is because he relies on deception and peoples' ignorance.
I would bet that he deceptively downplayed the value to the person that walked into his physical store trying to sell that box of 200 glasses. He paid $100 bucks for ALL 200 glasses and now sells EACH, individually, for $100 bucks... That is probably not even coincidental!!! If the buyers knew that he paid 50 cents for them, they would know they're dealing with a greedy, profiteering a$$hole! They don't know what he paid, ignorant (on many levels, but yeah), so they hand over the money... To achieve "buy low and sell high", deception is necessary on both ends; he likely deceived the original seller, downplaying the worth to buy them at 50 cents a pop, told the guy, "eh, I don't think I could get much for these, etc." but then as soon as the glasses trade hands, he puts them up on eBay, slaps "rare" and tries to flip the value 200 times more than what the previous seller thought that they worth... Ignorance/deception on both ends was necessary.
Black Tiger, I agree, I kinda didn't think gouging was technically accurate because, to me, it's more like the situation with gasoline, it's the lifeblood of the economy and you have no choice but to buy it if you want to be able to travel/work, etc. Industrial nations would go bye-bye without it, it's that important, like oxygen in the air! Videogames, on the other hand, are luxury items and all of the retro games in question have been ripped to file format and can be downloaded and played with emulators, etc. But, on the other hand, words/phrases get redefined all the time, so when I would see "price gouging" a$$hole and whatnot, I read it as "greedy profiteering" a$$hole, etc.
