F$%@ing craigslist resellers!

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Well yesterday someone posted up a working nfl blits 2player on cl for $75, and I was like wow great deal!! That will make someone happy to have it in there gameroom. But no someone just bought it and put it back up for sale for $500 !! Man if you don't really want it let someone that does get a good deal! Now just for the record I didn't want it just sayin I'm tired of seeing this happen.(would have got it if I had room : (

Has many outhers seen this happen?
 
Yes, this happens all of the time, but I've learned that there are opportunists out there that don't hesitate to flip stuff to make an extra buck. But if they got dibs on the game, it's their game and they can do whatever they want with it. Another way of looking at it is they buy the game, keep for a bit, get bored of it and sell it at whatever they feel it's worth.
 
Yes it is annoying espically if they do not even clean off the dirt and dust.
But we live in the USA and for now it's still kinda free.
 
Free

Who in the world told you we were free? Tell them to stop lying to you!!!
 
OK so lemme get this straight: you have a problem with someone who purchases something low and resells it high?

If that's an issue, then the entire free market concept must be a hoax.
 
Um.. while potentially annoying, I understand it. Fair game.

It's not just CL, look at yard sales today. It's not uncommon to see someone scanning ISBN numbers into their smart phones to see if a book is 'rare'. If it is, a picker/dealer will likely find it before a collector/enthusiast.

Same thing with eBay. Lots of rarer items used to go cheap before the Internet showed up and messed it up for the bargain hunters. I do still see stupid sellers occasionally showing up and placing 'buy it now' prices that are 1/20 what an item is worth sometimes (especially re: antique pre-videogame coin-op machines).

We all love a good story in which a collector finds a treasured gem at a bargain but life is competitive, and the world continues to get smaller and smaller every day. Thus these stories will be rarer and your resellers will grow. I'm actually impressed by how much CL is the exception to the rule since bargains do seem to pop up there all the time.
 
Um.. while potentially annoying, I understand it. Fair game.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you.

It's not just CL, look at yard sales today. It's not uncommon to see someone scanning ISBN numbers into their smart phones to see if a book is 'rare'. If it is, a picker/dealer will likely find it before a collector/enthusiast.

Same thing with eBay. Lots of rarer items used to go cheap before the Internet showed up and messed it up for the bargain hunters. I do still see stupid sellers occasionally showing up and placing 'buy it now' prices that are 1/20 what an item is worth sometimes (especially re: antique pre-videogame coin-op machines).

We all love a good story in which a collector finds a treasured gem at a bargain but life is competitive, and the world continues to get smaller and smaller every day. Thus these stories will be rarer and your resellers will grow. I'm actually impressed by how much CL is the exception to the rule since bargains do seem to pop up there all the time.

Oh yes, definitely, but particularly in coin-op collecting, you don't get into dealing these machines if you're not interested in them in the first place. The flippers and dealers didn't come to KLOV just to watch prices -- almost invariably, they have a gameroom of their own and are passionate about the hobby just like us.
 
Contact the reseller and offer what you think it's worth then. If you know they got it for $75 then offer, say, $200. Would you have paid that amount if it was the original price? They might be receptive to making a quick $100-$150 instead of waiting for $425.
 
Well yesterday someone posted up a working nfl blits 2player on cl for $75, and I was like wow great deal!! That will make someone happy to have it in there gameroom. But no someone just bought it and put it back up for sale for $500 !! Man if you don't really want it let someone that does get a good deal! Now just for the record I didn't want it just sayin I'm tired of seeing this happen.(would have got it if I had room : (

Has many outhers seen this happen?

But....who would resell back for 75? lol . Everyone needs money. Without 'resellers' the US has no economy on anything.....

I mean, $75 is stupidly cheap. It's an opportunity to make some money but for the "gamer' who wants it is highly unlikely that they would sell it for $75 when they can get $300 out of it later, it's basically throwing money away....It is what it is but it is capitalism. I don't see the issue with it. Early bird always gets the worm.
 
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I used to get pissed off at the same thing in the housing market when I was looking for a house.

People snatching up undervalued homes that I would have loved to brag about living in for a steal. I finally got over it- it's how the world works.

K
 
Ok maby in not making myself to clear, I have bought a game played it for a while and after a few months sold it for more then I bought it for (after fixing and cleaning it) and I believe that's ok (and I am a proud american and believe a free market is a incrediabley great thing) but buying one to take home and repost it within hours for $500 (and I doubt it will sell) just to ripoff someone that could have bought it for the $75 is simply greed in its purest form. And once again I was not intrested in buying it, just simply an observer.
 
Well yesterday someone posted up a working nfl blits 2player on cl for $75, and I was like wow great deal!! That will make someone happy to have it in there gameroom. But no someone just bought it and put it back up for sale for $500 !! Man if you don't really want it let someone that does get a good deal! Now just for the record I didn't want it just sayin I'm tired of seeing this happen.(would have got it if I had room : (

Has many outhers seen this happen?

who cares.. he aint getting that 500 for it anyway... hope he likes holding on to it for awhile...
 
I'm not sure we're making ourselves clear: it's a free market society. It doesn't matter how long you've owned your stuff. Few months or a few seconds, it doesn't matter.

I've been standing in the middle of an auction, won a bid, and immediately sold the item I won to another person standing right next to me for $100 more than I bought it for. Why, you ask? Because it was a 'choose from this lot' style of auction, and I was the 2nd highest bidder. The highest bidder took something that was NOT the most valuable, and I was offered next purchase at my bid price, which was $300 less than the winning bidder paid. The guy standing next to me, who stayed out of the bidding, offered me $200 over my bid price in cash on the spot, which I gladly took. He was happy, I was happy. A sale was completed that day, and I never even touched the merchandise.

What you really need to do is start a thread complaining about the fact that you missed out on a GREAT deal on CL. That would make more sense.
 
Commented on someone else's post about this a few days ago...It does indeed happen all the time. Just last week I missed a centipede cocktail for $75 and the guy who bought it relisted for $450. Sometimes a minute late and a dollar short seems like the story of your life, but aside from a bit of anger in not getting the item, there's not much you can do. About the only thing you can do is hope you are lucky enough to get the next steal that shows up.
 
Contact the reseller and offer what you think it's worth then. If you know they got it for $75 then offer, say, $200. Would you have paid that amount if it was the original price? They might be receptive to making a quick $100-$150 instead of waiting for $425.

The part you're not understanding is, he had no intention of buying it, even for $75. Now he's bitching that somebody else bought it.
 
Damn I guess im doing something wrong! I havent profited off a game in years,usually take a loss just to get rid of it and make room for something else. The days of flipping these antiques are over for now IMO.
 
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