Money Financhu Crisis / Chris sells his stuff megathread

[Porker LeVance]

Now he's selling a Wii U Fit Meter, whatever the hell that is used for. Why pay less than $10 total for a brand new one, when you could have fatty's worn and filthy one for only $100? Free shipping too! Jesus, look at it. I've had Wii accessories for a fucking decade that get used regularly and still look nearly new.
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Wow, I sure will be impressed when somebody buys it just because they can. I hope they make a Kiwi Farms account too so they can brag on a thread and reply to every hater with lots of witty rebuttals. That would be so cool.

 

[gREEEEEEEEEr]

Jesus, look at it. I've had Wii accessories for a fucking decade that get used regularly and still look nearly new.

Sure, but this one's been

...nope, not saying it.

 

[Nigonidas]

lolcow... in the making?

Anyone who trots in here bragging about how they just gave Chris $600 is solidly a lolcow. No further "making" necessary.

"hmm, yeh know, I went on a date with another girl named emily. and then a guy in a pickle suit came and stole her a way! . ennyway, I'm glad dats not happenin today."

I'm not going to pay money to wade through brony funk for a weekend for the sake of cwc.

But usually when it's in town, I'll swing by the convention center to get lunch and gawk a bit.

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The bar owners like to capitalize on the bronies. One year they had a "bar trot":
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Oh fuck me that guy in the cowboy hat probably thinks he looks like Kill Bill

 

[Duke Nukem]

Do these people ever regret buying his stuff? Does the guy who paid $1500 for that totem look at it every day and say "that was a fiscally responsible decision I made"

At least Chris put effort into creating the Sonic Totem, all he does now is put grimy greasy shit on eBay and dumb fucks pay equally ridiculous amounts of money to own them. But no matter how many times the mods warn us not to buy from Chris, some dumbass is going to hand over his tugboat for dirty junk, just because some retard on the internet owned it at some point.

Yep and a ticket to skip ahead of an autograph line. Fucking ridiculous.

Yeah, man, that alone completely baffled me when I looked at the chart. Just look at the prices of Gold and Diamond as well!

Who knows though, the Mystery Item alone might be worth it?

 

[The American Hedgehog]

Now he's selling a Wii U Fit Meter, whatever the hell that is used for.

 

[Mason Verger]

10,000 steps a day is nearly 5 miles.

 

[VoreDoggy]

Is he going through a breakup with Nintendo?

 

[Optimus Prime]

10,000 steps a day is nearly 5 miles.

Look who we're talking about - five miles worth of walking for him is a truly active day for him.

 

[Stormy Putin]

Okay, so we're now finding out that money that was so desperately needed for bills, the mortgage, court fees and Barb's teeth has been spent on tickets to Autistcon and a Fitbit?

 

[timtommy]

Yeah, man, that alone completely baffled me when I looked at the chart. Just look at the prices of Gold and Diamond as well!

Who knows though, the Mystery Item alone might be worth it?

Well, the diamond level seems to include 4 nights at a Hilton. That must be worth at least half of the extra $1000 you pay for it.

None of the levels seem worth the upgrade. If you go from level 1 to 2, you pay $125 instead of $65 and get a poster and an option to buy a T-shirt. That seems exactly the sort of thing Chris would be dumb enough to fall for. The upper levels may be too rich for his blood, but he can probably scrape together $125 almost as easily as $65, and we know he loves poorly valued upgrades.

Or he might spend $250. That seems to be the first VIP/sponsor level, where you start getting special badges and recognition. Seems right up his alley, and $250 is not out of the realm of possibility for him.

To be fair, conventions like this are difficult to price. They are expensive to put on. You have a large amount of venue space for a long time, plus a whole bunch of equipment and logistical support to pay for. You want decent sized crowds, so you need your basic price to not be a barrier to poorer fans, and hopefully entice some locals to stick their heads and look around. You can have more expensive packages, but you have to be careful, because if the place is full of VIP only events it gives it a really bad vibe for the people who forked over the basic price. The best way of squaring that circle is by having corporate sponsorship, and I am not sure how much of that is floating out there for dumb shit like Bronycon. So you are left with the next best option, which seems to be the one they went with. Have a bunch of overpriced "exclusive" knickknacks and minor perks, and hope that superfans with money to burn will get sucked in.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Well, the diamond level seems to include 4 nights at a Hilton. That must be worth at least half of the extra $1000 you pay for it.

None of the levels seem worth the upgrade. If you go from level 1 to 2, you pay $125 instead of $65 and get a poster and an option to buy a T-shirt. That seems exactly the sort of thing Chris would be dumb enough to fall for. The upper levels may be too rich for his blood, but he can probably scrape together $125 almost as easily as $65, and we know he loves poorly valued upgrades.

Or he might spend $250. That seems to be the first VIP/sponsor level, where you start getting special badges and recognition. Seems right up his alley, and $250 is not out of the realm of possibility for him.

To be fair, conventions like this are difficult to price. They are expensive to put on. You have a large amount of venue space for a long time, plus a whole bunch of equipment and logistical support to pay for. You want decent sized crowds, so you need your basic price to not be a barrier to poorer fans, and hopefully entice some locals to stick their heads and look around. You can have more expensive packages, but you have to be careful, because if the place is full of VIP only events it gives it a really bad vibe for the people who forked over the basic price. The best way of squaring that circle is by having corporate sponsorship, and I am not sure how much of that is floating out there for dumb shit like Bronycon. So you are left with the next best option, which seems to be the one they went with. Have a bunch of overpriced "exclusive" knickknacks and minor perks, and hope that superfans with money to burn will get sucked in.

If I paid that much to stay in a Hilton, I'd rather it be Paris and not Bronycon

I did have a friend about a decade back who was talking about going on a trip to an anime convention in the nearest major city, but it never came to fruition. The price of admission probably wasn't terrible there, maybe $30 at the time at worst, but holy fuck, like I said, I'm completely baffled at even the jump from $250 to $500 at this convention. I I'd sooner throw my money at literally anything else at that point. Warhammer 40,000 figures, a collection of sexually provocative, yet finely crafted anime girl figurines, a marathon session with a crowd of hookers, even throwing cash off a God damn bridge.

At least I get to laugh at the fact that some asswipe actually paid Chris real money to go to this cloptastic shit-fest. Ewww, really. Just ewww.

 

[Night Stars Brother]

Just a few days ago Chris was begging for mortgage money, now he goes out and buys a new Fitbit, those range from $50-$200.

It’s good that Chris has suddenly hit this new fitness streak I guess. But his insistence on buying workout gear with what was said to be money for his mortgage is dishonest and irresponsible. Which is to be expected.

I wonder how long this work out streak is going to last, and how many hundreds of dollars is going to sink into it before he gives up.

 

[bigshot]

He is probably already spending the (fictional) $600. Wait till he's left holding the bag and no banana money for a whole month. These eBay sales are going to get even more desperate and more ridiculous.

 

[Mason Verger]

There's an old racist term for what Chris is right now: Niggo rich.

What ya think? Less than $100 of it left by May 1st?

 

[Stormy Putin]

There's an old racist term for what Chris is right now: Niggo rich.

What ya think? Less than $100 of it left by May 1st?

"Jack" will probably send him more money - either that or he'll find and sell Cole Smithey's cock sock.

 

[Zilortha]

Shit @Marvin you have my sympathies with having to deal with those idiots "clopping" down the street. Wonder if a bronycon has ever been arrested or kicked out of a bar for acting like a jackass.

If only Bronycon or whatever was as autistic as Rainfurrest. God I love that story.

 

[Chrus Chundlur]

Now he's selling a Wii U Fit Meter, whatever the hell that is used for. Why pay less than $10 total for a brand new one, when you could have fatty's worn and filthy one for only $100? Free shipping too! Jesus, look at it. I've had Wii accessories for a fucking decade that get used regularly and still look nearly new.
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Jesus fucking Christ on a monocycle...the WiiU isn't even (relatively) that old as a platform but the damn thing looks like if it was salvaged from an Atari 2600 ET burial site.

It is specially confusing considering that, being a fitness accesory, Chris probably used it once or twice before shitting himself and throwing it into his useless electronic trinkets pile to never be touched again.

 

[Optimus Prime]

If only Bronycon or whatever was as autistic as Rainfurrest. God I love that story.

Look up "Las Vegas Unicon 2013" and I don't think you'll be disappointed.

 

[Zilortha]

Look up "Las Vegas Unicon 2013" and I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Ahh. The Dashcon approach. Gotta love it haha.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Ahh. The Dashcon approach. Gotta love it haha.

Had Dash-Con not happened the following year, Unicon would be the premiere example of a convention gone horribly wrong in every imaginable way.

To date, the con organizers themselves also mysteriously vanished a month after this shit went down, potentially with $50k of unaccounted funds, and have never been heard from again.