BK
Joined: Oct 14, 2002
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BK
On 2003-06-11 17:06, martiki6 wrote:
If you're buying on ebay from a TCer, and you KNOW it's a TCer, and you get a good deal and turn it around to another TCer, then that's cold. I believe BK and Kokomo are selling right now for example, both with the stated goals of raising some funds. If you bought low from them, and resold to another TCer, that would be damn shitty in my book.
The way I look at it, this is America, and I am a seller. I do both wholesale and retail in my antique business. I've got way too little time to worry about who re-sells what for what once I have wholesaled it to them. I told a client and friend of mine the other day (who has done very, very well on things I have sold him) that a collectible to me is like a ladder that keeps adding rungs to itself...they generally only go in one direction, and that is up (unlike the stock market). As long as I get my rung somewhere on the ladder, I am happy. If I buy an item for 10, sell it to a client for 20, and my client sells it for 40, the person that sold it to me is happy, I am happy, and my client is happy and will buy form me next time, and we all made a profit. So who cares? I as a rule never, ever apply friendship to a sales transaction, whether public or private. In turn, I never, ever get myself in the way of another man or woman's desire to pull a profit. I expect it. In fact, If a someone offers to sell me something at what they paid and I know it to be true, I'll OFFER them a small profit, because I was raised right and that's the American way. For me (personally), the original post was way too much analysis of something I don't even give a second whim to. But maybe that's just me.
[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna on 2003-06-12 10:35 ]
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