[quote name='Chairman_LMAO']I like how it's somehow become a crime to want to make money. karkyco's not a heartless bastard because he accepted $100 dollars for a We Are The World poster, that just shows what some people will
willingly pay for stuff that interests them. The woman in question first offered $75 and then topped her own offer moments later. Nobody broke her legs to do so. She payed it of her own free will, because it's worth that much to her.
I'll put it in terms that we can understand, as gamers. The current going price on ebay for a sealed copy of Ico is well north of $100. Is it worth that much to the casual gamer? Hell no. But to some of us collectors, it's a desireable price to pay. We would willingly pay that much. Are the sellers hearless bastards? In this case, no. They have an in demand product and a desire to make money. I say good for them, thats enterprising spirit at it's finest.
The Craigslist Stupidity thread is for the mocking of people who want
well over market value for their common games, like Madden 2001 and such. They deserve mocking for asking such a stupidly high amount. It's two completly different realms.[/QUOTE]
Would I pay $100 for Ico?
no. I hated that game and I couldn't wait to sell it. But as you said it's up to what people want to pay, what they think is fair. Many of us who comment on the mockery going on in the CL stupidity thread would probably see nothing wrong with paying $50 for a lot of fairly common Genesis titles, since we would see it as paying the usual $2-3 per game that most stores selling prior gen stuff charge each.
However, many of the people in the CL thread are resellers looking for stuff for a pittance with 'rare' stuff in the lot so they can recoup their initial investment, while we just see it as stuff we might want to....ya know...PLAY.
Whatever people are willing to go is the 'market price' for them. So who are the people in that thread to determine what is 'fair' and what isn't?
