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09-11-2008, 06:01 PM | #11 |
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I bought off ebay once. It was before I found this site. I knew the Cobra Legions pack was out, but I couldn't find it anywhere in stores. I thought I missed the boat. Fortunately, I only paid $5 over retail (plus reasonable shipping). But a month later, they were everywhere I looked. That's when I said "I need to find a place online that says when these things come out and where." This is how I found the tank.
Since then, I've had many opportunities to be presented w/ things that were "rare" or "hard to find" only to have the good ppl on this board speak up and say "Give it a couple of weeks and you'll be able to find it on the shelves." So, it's not always impatience. Sometimes, it's just ppl not being in the know. |
09-11-2008, 08:42 PM | #12 |
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Some of the answers are withn your own questions.
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09-11-2008, 08:45 PM | #13 |
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wait, mutual funds with 8% interest??!! I think mine have -8% in the last year.
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09-11-2008, 08:52 PM | #14 |
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and yes, it's okay to sell anything for whatever amount you want. if someone chooses to buy it, nobody is getting ripped off or over on another member. I find it odd that collectors will complain about the price when it is high, and yet I've been trying to sell an OCS HISS and DTC HISS for well under the retail price and nobody wants them. how much lower am I supposed to go, and how high is someone supposed to cap at? the point is, nothings price is set in stone just because retail sells for one price, so you sell it for what you can get for it, high or low. some of us take losses from those who want deals, and others make profit. nothing wrong with either. |
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09-11-2008, 08:57 PM | #15 |
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First, I would never, ever, ever pay $100 for a little glass figurine of a teddy bear holding a colored glass flower at Macy's. There are people who would. I would never, ever, ever spend $250 on a yellow Stalker. There are people who would. There are other who would never, ever, ever spend $200 to see the classical violinist Itzhak Pearlman play a concert. I would. Second, some people make $16,000 a year. One retail Joe at $9 represents a substantial part of that person's weekly income. Others make $200,000 a year. For those people, $100 is less than the $9 is to the guy who makes $350. It's all about priorities and what they're spending relative to what they're making. So what goes for one doesn't go for all. Simple as that, there's no right or wrong here.
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09-11-2008, 09:05 PM | #16 |
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he said "make an offer" i offered him retail price witch given that these just came out seems fair to me. If he wanted more than retail he should have set a hard price instead of wanting offers. and no, i didnt know he wanted that much |
09-11-2008, 09:07 PM | #17 |
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09-12-2008, 01:25 AM | #18 |
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let's be honest. if he wanted retail, he could have listed it as such and sold it in seconds. the fact that he said make an offer, you had to know what he was inferring -- make him a deal that he can't refuse, and that wasn't retail price because he could already have that -- so offering retail, while you think is it's fair price, you knew wasn't what he had in mind and were only doing such to prove a point. well, the for sale forum isn't for that. you knew what you were doing, and earned your warning. take it like a man.
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09-12-2008, 02:43 PM | #19 |
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We all took it in that forum... was it like men? I can't be for certain, but as i mentioned in that forum, the guy can charge what he likes, and obviously someone bitten with the must have it bug took the bait and purchased the plane, but i felt we had a right to criticize the seller for asking a crazy price before release. Was it right to do it in that forum, no, and we all got the warning.
To my surprise it seems this morning was the time to score said items and whoever paid the 80 bucks for that item is going the extra mile to contort in a fashion that allows themselves to kick feverishly at their own groin, so universal "karma" has paid off in spades. But alas, all is past, so we may now all go back to our regularly scheduled back hair shavings until the wave 10 figures and wave 2 vehicles hit en mass, at which point we can begin stabbing, killing, setting fire, and cursing our mothers inability to buy more than one cobra troop for us when we were children.
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