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Overpriced eBay listings and the likes. - $299 for a yellowed, no-brand, "vintage" keyboard. It's a deal!
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cheesy peeny hot & spicyI'm pretty sure the cheeto market on ebay is a money laundering thing.
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The only reason I'd say it's worth a little more than $100 is that it's an uncommon model. You're absolutely right through, it's in shit condition.
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A lot of these listings (the ones that aren’t money laundering at least) just look like they’re started or managed by people who know that weird old shit, all weird old shit, has some rich retard collecting it, especially tech, which has several subcultures dedicated to trying to get 90s Compaqs to run Doom 3 or whatever. I stand fully behind anyone looking to turn some busted laptop into weed money on account of some autist who just has to have a system containing some obscure motherboard manufactured in 1993.
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so fucking true... it's simply not possible to get a new legit sealed PS3 controller anymore.
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I've been having the opposite problem with selling stuff on ebay and mercari as there seems to be an increase in morons who keep making lowball offers.
I have these Prima Zelda strategy books that come in a chest set with a certificate of authenticity listed for $275 since the books are out of print and most box sets sell for over $300. Anyways I had some dipshit autist try to lowball me with a $203 offer to which I countered his offer with $250 as that was the lowest I was willing to go, but then he countered my offer with $220 before I declined his counter. I'm guessing he was just some asshole scalper who was trying to lowball me so he could flip the books and sell them for double what he tried to pay me for.
I have these Prima Zelda strategy books that come in a chest set with a certificate of authenticity listed for $275 since the books are out of print and most box sets sell for over $300. Anyways I had some dipshit autist try to lowball me with a $203 offer to which I countered his offer with $250 as that was the lowest I was willing to go, but then he countered my offer with $220 before I declined his counter. I'm guessing he was just some asshole scalper who was trying to lowball me so he could flip the books and sell them for double what he tried to pay me for.
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I'll give yah $80 highest I can go, best offer you gonna see.
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anyone fancy some overpriced plastic waste?
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I don't really know much about retro Apple computers, but I believe you can still find these at your local e-waste center if you look hard enough.
10k for a used vintage computer is just insane. I have seen brand new old stock retro computers still in their original packaging selling wayy lower than that.
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I would say that anyone who would buy any of these things at all, at any price, deserves to be ripped off by some grinning Pajeet, as they clearly have more money than they can spend on anything useful.
My last eBay purchase was something I ordered specifically because it had a UK listing, I was willing to pay a bit more because I don't want to wait months for the fucking thing (oh and half the UK's dockworkers have gone on strike) only for it to turn up a month late anyway with a Chinese customs label. Cunts.
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I can think of a guy who wouldn't mind paying abhorrent prices for a bunch of plastic crap, unfortunately he's stuck in jail for fucking his mom.
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Sonic Adventure 2 is a great game, but not $350K great. Also, looking at the “Sponsored” tag, it makes me think that this almost looks like a money laundering scheme of some sort by trying to hide behind a Sega Dreamcast game made more than three decades ago.
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looks signed but i dont think thats enough reason to sell it at this price. maybe 200 max
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1988 prick
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could be that
or could be a jew thinking he is in wallstreet but with degrading plastics
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These reek of obvious scalping, artificial scarcity, possible bootlegs, and some that actually genuinely rare items that command that kind of price tag.
First off, the Nendoroids is pure scalping with the Hypnosis Mic one being around $100-$200 on the second-hand market and the JJBA one still being available on GoodSmile's online store for MSRP.
The Space Molly figure is similar to Bearbricks in that they’re marketed towards the hypebeast/investor crowd and those with a lot of money. A quick search on StockX (a site that hypebeasts use to purchase and gauge the prices on figures like these and other collectables) yields results that are close to the eBay listing’s price but there’s a major red flag in it: the item ships from China. Every collector worth their salt knows that an item that ships from China is a bootleg 99% of the time (with the last one percent mostly being items rejected from the manufacturing line).
The SDCC-exclusive Freddy Funko as Charlie Brown POPs are up there for a Funko POP but considering that they’re a good 6 years old, are hard-numbered limited editions, and were exclusive to Funko’s “Funko Fundays” event it makes sense. That said the Leaf here is charging a 6.25x markup for ‘em so he’s clearly insane.
The Manny Pacquiao POP was probably the hardest one for me to research (it doesn’t even pop up on PopPriceGuide when you search for Manny Pacquiao). All of the Manny Pacquiao POPs go for $100+ thanks in part due to being part of Funko’s POP! Asia line and considering that these POPs have a hard-numbered limited edition that’s lower than even some Fundays POPs it’s believable.
The Freddy Funko as Fred Flintstone POP set is similar to the Charlie Brown POPs (convention-exclusive, hard-numbered limited edition, 6 years old, and show-exclusive) and they’re being charged at a 4.25x markup. But like the Space Molly figure it’s being shipped out of China and they’re being shipped without the usual POP boxes so that makes this listing really fucking suspicious.
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This isn't necessarily overpriced for a crazed collector, since it is rare, and both the guys are dead. Still, it is a ton of cash for a record, and I thought this thread might enjoy the description.
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Don't (some?) Nendoroids also get re-released from time to time? One Nendo I own has it's 3rd or even 4th release now. I am not sure what the criteria here is - never looked into it.
Do you maybe have some more insight for me on what exactly this Space Molly figure even is? I know Popmart is a brand that makes those collectible blind-box-figure-things (at least that's all I know about them) - but what's up with those huge and expensive figurines? Who are they made for? Where (and why?) do people usually buy them?
Rate/call me dumb, but I'm just not hugely into any kind of collectibles so all of this is pretty outlandish and new to me. But I'm genuinely interested.
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Checking the average listing price on one of the games I want to sell and someone thinks I'm gonna want to drop $600 on a minty fresh Bug's Life. I wouldn't even drop that much on a mint sealed game that was actually GOOD.
