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Conductor562
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Is it wrong that people like that irritate me 
Everybody's trying to make a buck.
Everybody's trying to make a buck.I van putski
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Is it wrong that people like that irritate me
Is it bad the dude is trying to make money.
Home Depot bought it for less than they are selling it for. Do they irritate you too?
tweedlestan
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Is it wrong that people like that irritate me
People do what they have to in this economy.
87Pomona
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Is it wrong that people like that irritate me
I agree, I hate people who try and make money! Really pisses me off!
I dont have that problem as I have a couple of money trees in the backyard.
/sarcasm
Conductor562
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I suppose. I don't know why it irritates me, but it does. I guess you can't blame the guy.
87Pomona
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I suggest you avoid slickdeals.net if buying for cheap and flipping irritates you lol
Buckgnarly
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Is it wrong that people like that irritate me
I'm with you for the simple fact that someone out there may have actually needed that, but some greedy jerkoff buys multiple to simply sell.
Guess I just feel it's good karma to leave some for the next guy (or gal), but that's just me.
I van putski
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I'm with you for the simple fact that someone out there may have actually needed that, but some greedy jerkoff buys multiple to simply sell.
Guess I just feel it's good karma to leave some for the next guy (or gal), but that's just me.
I guess I don't see it.
The jerkoffs at Home Depot bought many multiples to simply sell. And at a profit! Karma will get them assholes!
Don't look on eBay they've been actually selling for the marked up price.
Only thing I did it with was with the Industrial wrenches Sears cleared out. After eBay fees only made about $15 a set. In the end it wasn't worth my time or risk, eBay is full of scammers both sellers AND buyers.
Only thing I did it with was with the Industrial wrenches Sears cleared out. After eBay fees only made about $15 a set. In the end it wasn't worth my time or risk, eBay is full of scammers both sellers AND buyers.
fivespdcat
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It doesn't irritate me when someone goes out and finds a deal and flips it. They did the hard work and can profit from it. It irritates me, when someone posts here and a member here buys out all the stock to resell. We post here to help each other get some good deals on tools not for one guy to profit from it. This is a community and it pisses me off when one guy acts selfish and takes that away from us.
On the other side, it's always nice to see guys help others out by passing on deals. They buy the extras and give them to other guys at cost. Mi may start doing this just to put the screws to the other guys...
On the other side, it's always nice to see guys help others out by passing on deals. They buy the extras and give them to other guys at cost. Mi may start doing this just to put the screws to the other guys...
Reminds me of the 1st time I went to a giant camera swap meet. I rented a table to sell everything I'd upgraded from. I had a wide angle lens in great shape worth easily $100.00 but I knew I only needed to get $65 for it to get what I'd paid for it a couple years ago. I thought, OK I'll make somebody happy that they came here today as it wasn't a real common lens to find used. A guy comes along and offers something ridiculous and continues squirming around in front of me wincing and wining to get the price down. I offer to take the front filter off and knock the price down $5 for that but he finally bucks up and gives me $65.
2 hrs later a buddy offers to watch my table so I can poke around and I come across the lens at his table for $125. All that wining and crying he did only to turn around and flip it really pissed me off. We all know what it's like to be wanting something and then find a bang up deal on one so it's nice to return those favours once in a while.
I've seen guys on this forum offing freebies to who ever has the best reason for wanting it. That works great, you can screen who you're going to give it too so an end user can get a deal.
2 hrs later a buddy offers to watch my table so I can poke around and I come across the lens at his table for $125. All that wining and crying he did only to turn around and flip it really pissed me off. We all know what it's like to be wanting something and then find a bang up deal on one so it's nice to return those favours once in a while.
I've seen guys on this forum offing freebies to who ever has the best reason for wanting it. That works great, you can screen who you're going to give it too so an end user can get a deal.
dirtydogintex
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^ +1
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tweedlestan
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May I ask, what kind of lens was it?
Conductor562
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I've sold 3 or 4 things here an the classifieds (well, one was a PM sale) but in each case the items sold in less than an hour. All of it was stuff I had either bought replacements for or acquired in trade and didn't need. I like to dabble in tools on occasion and my purpose for doing so is always to expand my "collection" rather than turn a profit. I have a 1-1/4" Proto Deepwell (that's been used 2 or 3 times) all boxed up to mail to a GJ member in the morning. He had it on his list of things he needed, I had and extra that I don't need, so why the hell not pay it forward to someone who does? He offered to trade or pay shipping but I didn't accept. I guess what this fellow on Craigslist is doing isn't morally or ethically wrong, and it's still a good price versus retail, but something deep inside me just doesn't sit well with it. I can't explain why because I don't know why, but I feel that way nonetheless. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I can't help how I feel.
Much ado about nothing if you ask me... It's not like the Cl seller has 20 of these sets for sale, he has "1" set listed for sale. And based of the GJ link provided, before it was closed out at $25 it was discounted at $45, so either the seller is gonna make $20 or lose whatever the tax is in his city.
Slick111
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That rascal trying to make money!!!
I have had guys do that to me more than once when I used to go to the Mopar swap meets... it pisses me off too; I put a set of smallblock adjustable rocker arms up for $75 and get a guy begging me throughout the day to sell them for $40, we settle on $50 after I get sick n tired of seeing this buyer squirm and beg, then I go up front to get a hot dog and pop and my adjustable rockers are front and center at the very 1st booth in line with a $150 tag on them
Yeah it also kinda bugs me when some one buys low and sells high. It's the world what are gonna do. What I do is follow my ideals and when I get a good deal I either pass it on at the price I payed or keep it. You can't change others but you can listen to yourself and follow with what you believe in. Just my personal take on the issue.
redline380
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that would piss me off too. im all for a free market, but people need to be congenial to one another as well. if i am going to barter for a better price, its because i want it. i dont buy something just because its a good deal. i buy something because of the combined value/necessity. the best you can do is try to read the guy. ask him what he plans on using the rockers for. try to get a back story. if he is just trying to resell, you'll be able to tell.
plus, its a feel-good to get something for cheap and pass it on. i bought a used $1000 exhuast with a bunch of other used like a turbo and manifold stuff for $1000 total. it was a screaming deal, but the exhaust was too small for me. i passed it on to another guy on a local forum for $200. i couldve easily gotten $500 for it, but i wanted it to go to someone who would use it and i grilled him about what his plans are. it felt good to pass the deal on and i left it at that
You guys are funny. I don't care what anyone paid for anything. If I want it and I think the price is right, then I'll buy it. Don't care if you found it in the street, all that matters is; Is it a good deal for me? Same goes for selling, I agreed to the price, it's yours now... use it, resell it or cut it up into small pieces.
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Toughen up... you didn't have to sell them for $50... and you don't know that he sold them even close to $150.... but i bet he got $75!
ckadams00
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I'm with you for the simple fact that someone out there may have actually needed that, but some greedy jerkoff buys multiple to simply sell.
Guess I just feel it's good karma to leave some for the next guy (or gal), but that's just me.
HD did the same thing at $80-90. Then they hit a wall, can't sell them, have to liquidate at a loss. Someone buys 10 of them at $20 and posts them on eBay (to people who don't frequent this site and don't know the deal) and didn't do the work of going to get them). Buy them for $50. Still WAAAAAY ahead of their purchase if they had walked into HD when they were $90.
I don't see any problem with this in any way - if you want to be pissed at this be pissed at HD, not at the guy who took advantage of a great buy.
FWIW it was a nikkor 35mm manual focus lens. I'm not sure of the max apt. as this is going back to before we had auto focus. It was part of a kit I bought with a nikkormat camera back in the day.
After that experience I learned to price my stuff at market value and decide on discounts according to the buyer at the moment.
Maexle
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is it sold yet ??? we don't know if he can sell it to the asking price....
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I got a whole camera bag full of Nikkor lenses and my old F2 from my Army days. Haven't touched them -- or even looked at them -- in years. Do people still use that stuff? (35mm, 50mm 105mm, 43-86mm, ??-200mm). Traded my 1960 Austin Healy Bug Eye Sprite for a Nikkomat (not Nikormat, but identical) to get me started on the Nikon stuff.
justanengineer
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+1 on this, its a good chunk of the reason many are here.
When someone starts misrepresenting themself in any way, such as when they make comments like "Id love to have one" or start talking about using it/adding to their collection, or make up some other bs story, it becomes dishonest plain and simple.
Woo boy. Stay off CL between black Friday and Christmas. It's full of everything from Ridgid vacs to TV's and Computers that people bought the max of, and their buddies bought the max of, to flip on CL and epay for a tidy profit.
I get annoyed seeing the pics on TV of these people rolling shopping carts with 5-10 of something out the door, while other people that stood in line for 5-6 hours too go home empty handed. The TV news people make these people out to be some kind of savvy shopper, when they are pretty much scumbag flippers.
I get annoyed seeing the pics on TV of these people rolling shopping carts with 5-10 of something out the door, while other people that stood in line for 5-6 hours too go home empty handed. The TV news people make these people out to be some kind of savvy shopper, when they are pretty much scumbag flippers.
Conductor562
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I especially hate when they do it with toys. Some mom sits in the cold for hours to get something only to have some ******* in the front buy all of them to sell on eBay at 2-3X retail while the little guy who's mom sit in cold goes without.