Being able to float $100,000 each month means you shouldn't be on Cheapassgamer, lol. I also don't understand going in on something like this. Might as well just buy silver the next time some SDer posts a deal a few bucks above spot price.
Well lately there has been a shortage of Pros at retail. They are kinda hard to find atm. I'm sure that's due to manufacturing the 500 mil LE and the upcoming holiday bundles that are coming out. Sony actually does a fantastic job with sell-through and managing their hardware distribution and inventory.
Maybe not short term, but long term these things should hold at least some value value, if what happened with the 20th Anniversary system holds true with this. At the very least, you should get your money's worth out of this. The unfortunate thing with this is the is is the end of the PS4 lifecycle, and most likely the PS5 will have backwards compatibility with the PS4, making this less desirable, but that's pure speculation. I dunno. At the very least they look cool as hell. But I do feel like years from now, 5-10 years from now, they'll be worth something. But I don't think there will be that super short term flippability with this the way you can with other collectors items.
Anyone who is using $10k from a savings account to have tied up in PS4's is doing it wrong. There are these things called credit cards. That is what you would want to use to tie up $10k in something like this.
Yeah, that 5-10 year time-frame is always so hard to gauge. It almost just turns into a crap shoot, as the market does really weird things and doesn't always follow a logical path haha.
From the conversation, it seemed like 'being able to afford it' and 'not living paycheck to paycheck' would have to be referring to paying for it, not floating it on a card; I might have misunderstood, though. The big issue with floating on a credit card is interest. I have a pretty hefty amount of available credit, but if one doesn't pay off the balance when the statement comes due, then interest is charged, and that just screws with profit big time. If it's a quicker flip, then that's not a problem, of course.
That's a good point. The 20th anniversary PS4 has been allllll over the place for resell price, though, it seems. It even saw a surge in value after the 50 million PS4 was released (which is kind of funny) and then went back down. Of all of my video game purchases in my lifetime, that is definitely the one that I feel the most self loathing for. Lol
The toughest thing about the 20th Anniversary console is there's no way to know what # your console is without opening up, which totally tanks the value unless it's a unique number. And even then, it's still opened, it's no longer new.
I placed my order at about 11:10 EDT, and I've gotten no emails and my order status is set as confirmed, which is what it was when I first got the email. Paypal has my money set as pending. Beyond that, I know nothing else.
You’re saying there’s a lack of civility—of morality—on a place called CheapAss???!!! Excuse myamazing 2nd post
hold your breath until the PMs start rolling in.
ing naivety. I never planned to purchase this in the first place, let alone attempt to make money off it.
""You miss 100 percent of the shots you dont take. - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott"
1.Brag posts about having X amount of money to flip with is condescending and unnecessary. Scalpers hurt the consumer who actually want to buy the console to play. And we have a rich scalper on a grand scale buying 100k worth of merchandise
Same, I think this was all a scam to get frustrated buyers to buy something on the Dell website. That 10% coupon only works on Dell branded items, so basically no real discount or any penalty from Dell's side.
got one for $175 on craigslist from a old guy, just had to help him clean out a hose that had some gunk stuck in it
