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DarkSoulsPhil said:
I said this exact thing at the time.

He said he sold dvds (which would have been worth more if he sold them personally, BUT NO TIME DOOD) but we know he has a lot of blu rays. 100% hes downsizing his dvds but NOT his blurays

My dad (early 60s) loves movies and collected them for his vcr, then dvd, then blu ray player as the technology progressed. He then donated the dvds to me, my siblings or other family members. BUT, he makes more way money than Dave and has no debt, so he can afford to do so. He does this because he loves movies and wants the best.

Dave just wants the best but doesnt have the income or set up for it.
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I just assumed dvd and blue rays were about the same in resale value. How much of a difference are they?
 
Muppetmode said:
I just assumed dvd and blue rays were about the same in resale value. How much of a difference are they?
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Really comes down to what you're selling and where but generally speaking DVD resale prices have tanked in the past couple of years (alongside last gen videogames) unless as I said earlier you happen to have stuff that's rare or hasn't been given a release on streaming platforms/bluray. Streaming now takes most of the market share but collectors are still willing to pay boutique labels high prices for tarted up bluray releases like Steelbooks etc. For a standard release of a mainstream movie though I'd say you could make back 35% more on a bluray over a DVD.

All the same I trust Phil probably (at least from what we saw in videos) isn't hoarding rare and exotic editions of arthouse movies or anything like that.. I doubt he made a fortune when loosening his grip on his DVDs it just stands out as one of those little lies he can spin to the viewers to make out he's doing all he can to survive on the ropes when that Bluray collection is probably still sitting there collecting dust.
 
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Shambler said:
while that obviously doesn't sound like a man who's well off i hesitate to believe phil when his idea of a "big surprise" is a fucking cat
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I never believe Pig, especially when it comes to money since he quite obviously earns 100k a year (based on monthly totals of his and no weaseling will disprove the amount beyond the exact number) and if he's struggling with that then he's clearly a dipshit who forgot what the hell financing is.
 
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Adamska said:
I never believe Pig, especially when it comes to money since he quite obviously earns 100k a year (based on monthly totals of his and no weaseling will disprove the amount beyond the exact number) and if he's struggling with that then he's clearly a dipshit who forgot what the hell financing is.
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Like a few have said, think it’s just squealing cause he’s low on disposable income. He can’t eat out every day like kat and he wants to. Can’t go in the staycations. I wonder if kat’s watched vids of those staycations and wants the same thing
 
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Kermit the Frog said:
Phil could keep this ludicrous spending habit up until the fan artwork copyright strikes against him, the renegotiated contract with Machinima, the adpocalypse/changing algorithms on YouTube, getting dumped by Machinima, getting dumped by Curse, the transition to full time streaming, and so on.
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I wish we had statistics on how much he was making streaming a few years ago because there's no way he was making less than $150K a year in 2011-2012 and I find it hard to believe he was making much more than $36-48K a year from 2013 to when he started streaming.
 
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Muppetmode said:
I just assumed dvd and blue rays were about the same in resale value. How much of a difference are they?
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I'm not talking dvd vs blu ray resale value.

I'm talking private vs pawnshop resale value.

He said, roughly, "i took 300 dvds to a pawnshop and got $300 for it." Thats $1 per dvd. Selling on ebay could be $5 each. But ebays trash because various reasons. So what if he tried something else? If he used a classifieds website (your region may vary) or even facebook marketplace, he would get $5 per and then take the rest to the pawnshop.

This is a lot more noticeable in videogames (trade-ins vs private sales) but the same thing applies.

Could he sell all the dvds privately? No. Could he sell a bunch, take the rest to the pawn shop and make say...$500 instead of $300? Easily. Would take 1 hour to sort them and type up a list to post, another hour (max) in going to his front gate (gated community dood) for all sales. Somehow he doesnt think that $100 an hour is worth his time (which is higher paying than most of his streams)
 
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DarkSoulsPhil said:
I'm not talking dvd vs blu ray resale value.

I'm talking private vs pawnshop resale value.

He said, roughly, "i took 300 dvds to a pawnshop and got $300 for it." Thats $1 per dvd. Selling on ebay could be $5 each. But ebays trash because various reasons. So what if he tried something else? If he used a classifieds website (your region may vary) or even facebook marketplace, he would get $5 per and then take the rest to the pawnshop.

This is a lot more noticeable in videogames (trade-ins vs private sales) but the same thing applies.

Could he sell all the dvds privately? No. Could he sell a bunch, take the rest to the pawn shop and make say...$500 instead of $300? Easily. Would take 1 hour to sort them and type up a list to post, another hour (max) in going to his front gate (gated community dood) for all sales. Somehow he doesnt think that $100 an hour is worth his time (which is higher paying than most of his streams)
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HE CAN'T USE EBAY BECAUSE TROLLS!
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I prefer to believe Phil's 100% correct, and he's just a manlet with a wingspan of 3 feet :lol:
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gaarashatan said:
LOL 3 FEET, MORE LIKE 6 YOU DUMBFUCK
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Not to shit on people who are just really bad at spatial reasoning and estimations but this is the kind of thing that real world experience helps you develop. You'd be shocked what you learn without even trying to when you just go about your life and try to do things, like putting together furniture or fixing something in your house yourself. It's always funny to me when someone brings up Phil's much-lauded Street Smarts in a list of his greatest hits because that's basically a colloquialism for common sense or knowledge gained from experiece, two things he is staggeringly lacking. Book Smarts are all he has and clearly they're not doing him any good, either.
 
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SoapQueen1 said:
I wish we had statistics on how much he was making streaming a few years ago because there's no way he was making less than $150K a year in 2011-2012 and I find it hard to believe he was making much more than $36-48K a year from 2013 to when he started streaming.
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I seem to remember calculating that Pig made something fucking ridiculous like a half million a year pre-adpocalypse based on what I understood of the ads and algorithms at the time. This was before he waddled over in a panic to Twitch fully and milked his pigcult, and I'm skewed most likely due to having just Pig's words for things, but I believe he reliably made like over 200k just from the videos, and thousands more just from Twitch.

Either way he's an angry manchild because he can't throw away thousands a month like he used to on his manchild trophies to brag to the stupids how much better he is than they are.
 
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SoapQueen1 said:
I wish we had statistics on how much he was making streaming a few years ago because there's no way he was making less than $150K a year in 2011-2012 and I find it hard to believe he was making much more than $36-48K a year from 2013 to when he started streaming.
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Well, socialblade can't show further back than 3 years now, but you can use archive.org to see their pages, including for dspgaming from 2011. Check this shit out: http://web.archive.org/web/20111118094359/https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/dspgaming/monthly

He was getting as many or more views in a single DAY as he gets per month now. Their CPM rates as listed are $0.75 - $8, so the range is huge, but this was also when Phil had the "per view" contract with Machinima. I'm betting they did a similar "$X per 1000 views" system, but it was probably based solely on the number of video views. So yeah, Phil could easily have been making $150k-$200k, if not a good bit more, at that time.

It's also interesting to see that by 2012, the daily views were already slowing down to between 1/2 and 1/3 the 2011 views: http://web.archive.org/web/20121014072939/https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/dspgaming/monthly

Sorta blows a hole in the "DUH DETRACTORS RUINED ME" story. Interesting to see that the slide had already well begun in 2013:

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Edit: I realize you were mostly curious about his income from Twitch. It looks like he was partnered around June 2013 (based on his Twitter), but @EddyB43 only had him making $1000 or so in December 2016, so I can't imagine he was making a ton more on his first go-round with Twitch, especially since I think they only had subscriptions and ads as forms of revenue at that point (we can recall Phil's tweet about bits being introduced in 2016, shortly before he crawled back: https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/747578105292718080).

Really, just sit back and enjoy Phil's haughtiness from just a few months before he went back to Twitch: https://twitter.com/search?q=twitch...14-01-01 (from:theycallmedsp)&src=typed_query

It's truly incredible.
 
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ReentryPhantom said:
I don't believe this has been posted yet, but never trust DSP to measure anything for you.
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"its like 2 or 3 feet, thats pretty short" this sounds odd until you realize phil doesn't keep his electronics against a wall where the outlet is he stretches them across the room 2-3 feet is a good length for normal people but phil clearly isn't normal and its like closer to 5-6 feet
 
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