[quote name='tayaf69']more pathetic that people don't understand the potential that ebay holds. [/QUOTE]
*Sigh.*
No, we all understand that. I think CAGs understand the "business" of our trading/selling/deal-finding ways much better than the average person.
Off the top of my head, I can think of serious sellers for this season:
Xbox 360
Stargate complete DVD sets
Mario DDR
Gameboy Casltevanias (given the 2-for-1 pack)
Games from the KB Toys sale
What we have a beef with is people obviously swaggering around and cutting deals off for people that might actually
want the items instead of people who are merely looking out for themselves.
There's nothing more or less than that. It's the difference from, like illennium said, the community effect versus "look, another way to exploit both the system and people around me" instance.
However, I will concede that on things like the DDD sale, since there's essentially no way to tell if inventory at DDD will exhaust, it's nothing to worry about.
I will also concede that, for the most part, you are playing off the comercialism-frenzied public. The kind of people that drive stupid sales, like paying $40 for a 256 meg PSP Pro Duo card simply because it's right there at Best Buy, when you could easily get a 512 for the same price online, and a gig for maybe 10-15 more if you really look. In other words, if people were better/smarter consumers and watched what they did, they'd all save serious amounts of money. (I have a conspiracy theory that this might completely destroy capitalism but that's not for this thread
).
In other words, you're playing off parents that didn't pay attention, people who have obvious money to burn, people who stay at home and shop all day on eBay/online, etc etc etc.
It has always been said that there is a "light/dark" side to CAG. Again, we don't care that you get profit. I believe that is the CAG mentality - more games for less money, and perhaps profitting on various deals in order to gain money to buy even MORE games at even LOWER prices. We're all about that and we've always been all about that.
But we've never been about screwing over fellow CAGs for our own personal gain, and to a great extent, non-CAGs.
Someone could make the "moral" argument about how "well buying things with the intention to sell is wrong" and how you are hurting people, but I'm not going to make it, nor do I really believe in it. Mostly because I've tried telling my friends and family about CAG and places like dealnews.com, and they STILL do not use them to their advantage, and STILL pay full price for everything. So it takes a special breed to go through the trouble of saving money. In the end I'll have more games to play than they will. So you can place some blame on people who are unwilling for whatever reasons.
Man, this reply got longer than I thought.
Bottomline: Don't call us ignorant. We all know exactly what is going on and chances are we've resold things for profit. There's a fine line between doing that and being a hoarder, and quite frankly we're all sick of people attempting to pass off the buck when we call them out on it. It's a cut and dry, plain and simple label that CAGs -
especially CAGs - know when, where, and how to use it and on whom.
That would be like telling a mechanic he doesn't know what a carburator is because you saw one once in your Hot Wheels book.
I'm done with this argument. Make all the profit you want. I don't really care. And I won't care until I come on this board and I start seeing people bragging about how they are f*cking me over on all the good deals and leaving me out in the cold. That'll make me resent CAG in the first place, when it's been amazing to me in the last 1.5 years, ESPECIALLY this year.
Come on now. Be smart about it and at least fool us into thinking no one is hoarding. Don't brag about it. Shit. Not a hard concept, people.
Ok I'm seriously done with this argument forever. In fact I might copy and paste this into a text document so I can remind myself that I never need to write it out again since I covered all the bases.
