What are your all's thoughts and opinions on breaking bundles to get the individual pieces at a cheaper price?
On many thrift store runs, I have encountered many incomplete bundles that they sell.
Sometimes they are obviously donated with pieces already missing. Dance Dance Revolution pads, Guitar Hero/Rockband instruments without the dongle, etc.
On other occasions, I have seen torn open plastic/purposefully damaged items.
Some of these incomplete bundles are like dvd television boxsets missing a dvd case, video game boxed accessory bundle missing the game, and so forth.
Let's say video games and other disc based media. My local thrift store sells them at an individual price and on occasion depending on what it is sells bundles at a somewhat higher price.
The sad part is that if all thrift stores are like my local thrift store, there are occasionally discount days. Meaning you could get things even cheaper.
In my opinion, it is still theft to break a bundle at a thrift store that a thrift store is selling as a bundle in order to get it cheaper.
To simply this in an example: A local thrift store is selling Mario Kart Wii with the steering wheel for $5. Is it really okay to break open the bundle and take out Mario Kart Wii in order to pay $2, just for the game?
It just grinds my gears that someone has the gall to do something like that. It is a morality issue to me because I feel I would have a PS4/Switch/Xbox One by now, if maybe I had a lesser sense of morality.
Reminds me of a long time ago at my local Kmart where Wing Commander for the Gameboy Advance was on clearance for like $5 and someone still had the nerve to steal it.