DreamTR
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What is it with old school collectors and their way of "thinking?" RANT
The title doesn't come across correctly, but in the 5+ years I've been actively buying/collecting stuff and the 30+ years I've been playing/casually getting machines before that (and coming from a very large console collecting background) I've come to notice the following:
Why are some old school collectors so geared towards believing they should be the ones getting everything and not you?
Why does it matter to them what I do with MY money?
Why are some of these collectors super passive aggressive? Here is a good example from a collector: Him: How come you don't tell me when you have cheap games for sale?
Me: They are all on Craig's LIst.
Him: "I don't get any games anymore on Craig's List because you get them all"
Me: I barely buy anything on Craig's List anymore except for this pinball machine I am picking up tomorrow.
Him: I was going to get that, see?
Me: It's been up a week and a half and no one bought it and you just said you don't look at Craig's List, wtf?
Why are prices/values skewed to where they REALLY think the prices are super low on games that haven't been at those prices in years, or pull out prices out of thin air....(saying games are $800 that are really worth $400 and then saying my $1600-2000 game is $1000, etc)
I mean, I'm not making any post out of jealousy or any of that, I own a video arcade that I essentially created for the state of Tennessee so players can be reacquainted with arcade games that is basically a hobby out of my own pocket but we have collectors here that say random things about such and such and don't even come to the arcade, or just make up random pricing...
I guess my point of this post is, I am not really understanding the way of thinking of some people in this hobby because I don't have these issues with console collecting; people upset about me buying stuff with my own money or making up prices on things worth way less/more and then when I sell it for my price (that is still more than fair) there are crickets...
Oh well, lol...just had to type that out
The title doesn't come across correctly, but in the 5+ years I've been actively buying/collecting stuff and the 30+ years I've been playing/casually getting machines before that (and coming from a very large console collecting background) I've come to notice the following:
Why are some old school collectors so geared towards believing they should be the ones getting everything and not you?
Why does it matter to them what I do with MY money?
Why are some of these collectors super passive aggressive? Here is a good example from a collector: Him: How come you don't tell me when you have cheap games for sale?
Me: They are all on Craig's LIst.
Him: "I don't get any games anymore on Craig's List because you get them all"
Me: I barely buy anything on Craig's List anymore except for this pinball machine I am picking up tomorrow.
Him: I was going to get that, see?
Me: It's been up a week and a half and no one bought it and you just said you don't look at Craig's List, wtf?
Why are prices/values skewed to where they REALLY think the prices are super low on games that haven't been at those prices in years, or pull out prices out of thin air....(saying games are $800 that are really worth $400 and then saying my $1600-2000 game is $1000, etc)
I mean, I'm not making any post out of jealousy or any of that, I own a video arcade that I essentially created for the state of Tennessee so players can be reacquainted with arcade games that is basically a hobby out of my own pocket but we have collectors here that say random things about such and such and don't even come to the arcade, or just make up random pricing...
I guess my point of this post is, I am not really understanding the way of thinking of some people in this hobby because I don't have these issues with console collecting; people upset about me buying stuff with my own money or making up prices on things worth way less/more and then when I sell it for my price (that is still more than fair) there are crickets...
Oh well, lol...just had to type that out


