[quote name='davo1224']See here's the funny and mildly hypocritical part. You talk about how I had to factor in all this stuff but you and apparently only you have exceptions.
Oh yeah since you wanted a brief rundown:
12/30/06 Bought the Cube and Games
4/16/07 Did The Bad Trade-Ins to Gamestop
5/23/07 Bought the 24 Games for $135
6/9/07 Bought Games from Gamestop's B2G1F using store credit from her stuff
7/14/07 Got Helio Phones, Traded Helio Phones for Sprint Phones
7/18/07 Sold Sprint Phone to her for her stuff and $180
7/19/07 Sold her Cube on CL, Finished selling all of her stuff on Amazon
Would you rather I have said that I did all of that in a week's worth of days? It was just way easier to say that I did it over 7 months instead of interspersed between 7 months.
So now after getting the detailed description you were looking for, if you still don't think that getting a Cube and 40 games for free (and that's generously factoring in the surplus I made to eliminate these random variables just to say I broke even) is bragworthy, then it's reeking of jealousy, laziness, or a mixture of both. I didn't start the talk of what I did but might as well finish it.[/quote]
Jesus Christ, we're still beating this dead horse? And what, you kept a journal of your transactions, too, to further savor the great accomplishment?
What I myself find "funny and mildly hypocritical", actually truly ironic, is you state "I didn't start the talk of what I did..." ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, you did in fact create a topic on the Shopping Discussion and Bragging Rights specifically to detail your deal, titled something along the lines of "how I got a Gamecube and 40 games free plus $75 profit in 7 months".
I talk about 'all this stuff factored in'? Uhhhh, actually EVERYONE was talking about the 'stuff' that is generally factored in, the variables like time spent, gas/energy consumed, etc. when breaking down deals. I'm certainly not the exception, but where you and I (and many others, according to the general consensus) differ is that one of us closed truly bragworthy deals, the other, not so much (not that good deals or bad deals ultimately matter all that much, we're not changing the world one CAG deal at a time). But that's not merely my opinion - almost everyone in the original thread was less than impressed.
Really, I may have been a tad harsh when I first read your original topic posting which detailed your score, but I merely found it unimpressive, as did most others who read and commented on it. It is what it is, accept it or don't, doesn't change the truth of the matter.
The consensus was, and continues to be, that your 'feat' wasn't all that big of a deal. People in the original thread were for the most part saying, "so what's the big deal?" and "that's not an impressive deal for the amount of time and effort put in, to say the least". But when people made their comments and made their opinions known, apparently it offended you as you continue to beat this dead horse to oblivion and carry it like a chip on your shoulder. Not that it will change the consensus, but it does, ironically, reek of jealousy.
And now you come in here in some attempt to mock my Ikaruga score (perhaps I should post a new topic about it and see what the general consensus of that deal is so we can continue this tiresome back and forth nonsense ad nauseum, hmmm?), in what can only be described as some sort of attempt at a petty act of revenge. So what can I say. Stalk much?
True, it's ultimately a matter of one's own opinion, but the public opinion was that your score was nothing to write home about. If you feel you got such a stellar deal, then good for you. I'm sure you can go down to your local high school's special ed program and find some people that will back you up on it and concur with you.
I'm just trying to figure out why we're still talking about the damn 'deal', because really, no one gives a shit. Perhaps that's the problem - are you suffering from a lack of attention in your life? Are you looking for absolution or vindication? Would you like me to say "gee Davo, I sure was wrong. You scored an AMAZING deal. I wish I could be like you." Well, there you go. Feel free to quote that, smoke it, get it printed on a shirt, business cards, coffee mugs, whatever, fly it high for the world to see.
Now can we be done with it, because I'm sure you're a great person in real life and all, but this obsession is really unhealthy. I certainly didn't mean for my oh so cutting comments in the original thread to be taken so personally, not that they were a personal attack. It was more of me laughing at and mocking the deal itself rather than you. Think of it as constructive criticism, sort of a "well, you'll do better next time son" and "you gained knowledge, which is the most important thing" type speech, like a father/son heart to heart. Though perhaps I should make up a thread about how I got a shitty deal as a way to punish myself for my rude, caustic, biting comments in your topic...maybe I'll start a thread and say I paid $25 for cartridge only Super Mario Bros. NES or something, to beat myself up and get chided by the community. As a sort of act of penance. how does that sound?
In any case, that's my last comment on the matter, though I'm sure it won't end there. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.