Anyways, I hope after my deals here are finalized I will have some rep here and maybe you all will forgive me for trashing your heritage. I hope my even coming here is a sign of good nature. I will be watching this thread because it's fascinating to see all the craziness that goes on. I'm always seeing things from the merchant side but it's nice to see things from the customer side too.
Take care all. I may post some more, but I mainly wanted to get this off my chest.
Well, good thing that nobody found your picture before coming here and doing your auction, otherwise Tatsujin might've had a little fun with it making your first post here that much more uncomfortable.
Sorry we couldn't do business, BTW...
I went back and checked, I did actually send you my patented $5 offer, sadly, you refused, but hey, at least I tried! Heh-heh.
I have to admit, it's rare to see someone respond to harsh criticism and actually vindicate the fact that it can actually change someone's mind to such a degree. Most would never admit it. The type of "activism" that I see here is mainly to vent (
as well as provide entertainment at times if possible) and I suspect that most people here don't think it can actually help "make things better." You really didn't have to take us seriously (Jay/megahit79 sure doesn't), and you're losing some time breaking that set up and making individual sales to people here, so that's very cool of you. Everyone that has bought something from you states that they are happy with the deals that they got, so I'll take their word for it.
I'm still a business and will always have a profit motive over preserving game heritage,
I actually understand this and guys like megahit79, you're essentially in the resale business and the objective profit motive will always take precedence (
plus you have far more expenses than an individual, especially if you have a brick/mortar physical location in addition to an online operation). That's how you stay IN business, after all! It's as simple as: the market value is what people are willing to pay for it (e.g. on places like eBay) and if one guy is willing to give you $50 bucks for it and another guy is willing to give you $100 bucks, well, gosh golly, who would you rather do business with? Hm, real tough choice here, but I'm guessing the $100 offer sounds more appealing!
The natural inclination of a seller is to wanna sell for as high as possible and the natural inclination of a buyer is to wanna buy for as low as possible. Neither side wants to get ripped off; you want a respectable profit and the buyer wants a respectable deal - both sides need to be informed for that to happen. Selling for outrageous amounts from the get-go (as in, for a great deal more than what is usually seen) is an indicator that the seller is relying on uninformed/ignorant buyers to click BIN which is when morality enters into it and a judgment can be made about that seller's character (
they're fishing for suckers to take the bait). Just like the movie, there's the good, the bad, and the ugly (
a movie which coincidentally was all about bags of gold and human character!)! And megahit79 definitely falls on the ugly side with his lucky "$30,000 dollar" lottery of a SNK cart and his 20,000% markup on .50 cent glasses!
I will be watching this thread because it's fascinating to see all the craziness that goes on.
I agree BTW, I have found this thread to be the most fascinating on this board because it's only recently that I learned about what was going on with eBay and the skyrocketing of prices for NEC games. When I resumed visiting this board after a long absence, someone wound up selling Beyond Shadowgate on here for what I thought was an outrageous amount, but I was unaware of what the eBay-effect had done. This thread gave me a crash course, and mind you, normally I'm a free market kind of guy, but when I'm seeing creatures like megahit79 do what they do, I can't help but feel some disgust! But, that's freedom, gotta take the bad with the good! Best you can do is warn people so that they don't do business with a guy like that!
