Nowadays people spend their money on sensible crazes, like Stanley Mugs.
AKA “Big Dumb Cups”
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 days agoPet rocks.
And every ridiculous “must have” Christmas toy craze.
Nowadays people spend their money on sensible crazes, like Stanley Mugs.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Years ago, the Ticket Me Elmo dolls were the hot Christmas gift, and nobody could find them. I happened to walk into Target, and they had just set up a new display of their newly arrived shipment. I bought 10 them for about $30 each, and sold most of them for $150-200. The final one finally went for about $80 just before Christmas.
Paid for ALL our Christmas gifts.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 days ago
It’s not ok to be a scalper just because it’s kid’s toys instead of geforce cards.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Do you intend to sell your house for what you bought it for? If you make a profit on your house, are you a scalper?
Tell it to Wall Street. Supply and Demand, it’s what our entire economic system is based on.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 days ago
If I had never intended to live in it and just speculated on appreciation? Yes. Take your fair share and leave some for others. Your entire reasoning is why the world is such a shithole.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because you don’t buy ten houses thinking you’re gonna deliberately fuck ten other people out of way more money than each house is worth because you wanna make a bunch of money. You’re no better than Ticketmaster or Blackrock driving up prices on housing and entertainment making them big bucks while fucking the regular person. Do you like Blackrock and Ticketmaster? Gonna engage in some gymnastics to tell is why it’s all Ok?
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Why is it not okay to be a scalper? What do you mean by “not ok”, should it be frowned upon by others (like pooping your pants) or do you mean morally wrong (like a sin) or a crime?
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hear me out before you downvote a devils advocate opinion…I think all the downvotes on this comment are from concert ticket buyers, GPU buyers, Christmas fad toy buyers, and other victims of duopolies or false scarcity in the market (effectively monopolies?). Its not the “scalper” that is continuing to fuel the broken system, it is the corporations who promote false scarcity.
I get the anti-scalper sentiment, but I don’t think BarneyPiccolo should be downvoted for making a few bucks on Elmo. It’s a case of hating the player and not the game. In this case they are not an arm of corporate interests buying up needed resources and holding them hostage, they are a victim in an unfair game that promotes scalping. This would be a different scenario if they were buying up necessities like toilet paper (shitty reference here), local affordable housing, or agricultural land.
Hawke@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is that the cop version?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 days ago
No, it’s the poor spell check version