Ticket Me Elmo
Is that the cop version?
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days agoYears 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.
Hawke@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days ago
No, it’s the poor spell check version
Don_alForno@feddit.org 3 days ago
It’s not ok to be a scalper just because it’s kid’s toys instead of geforce cards.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 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 2 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 2 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?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
This is why Sociopathic Oligarchs rule the world. The first time a regular guy gets a chance to make money, everybody jumps on him. Before you get mad at me for finding a way to afford a decent Christmas for my family, get mad at the parasites who are working everyday to take away your medical care, your workplace protections, etc.
I found a way to separate people with more money than sense from a small amount of their treasure for a change. MAGAs do it every minute of every day. I’m not going to apologize for exploiting people with money, just like they do to the rest of us every fucking day.
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I agree with your comment, but like I commented above. There is a difference in contributing to a broken system that exploits human necessities and surviving in a system. Ticketmaster has buying power, a corporate landowner has buying power. Not too many of us think Blackrock and Ticketmaster are good for humanity. Barney here buying a few Elmo at Christmas is actually showing people there is a problem without killing anyone (by taking away housing, food, arable land). Maybe people aren’t pointing the finger at the people responsible for this broken system.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 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 2 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.