NoRéN;198981306 said:
and when i started here 7 years ago buyers weren't so whiny and didn't resort to craigslist low-balling tactics as much.
The saltiness over missing out on price errors is getting tiresome. We're gonna need a thread for buy/sell/trade thread bitchingdiscussion soon.
It's a tired repeat airing of this situation about once a month.
The buyers complain that it's not a good market because people got keys from a glitch for a penny and thus FOR THE COMMUNITY! they should be sold at cost to share the love. that it's becoming to much of a sellers market and not enough community love.
The Sellers complain that the buyers are low-balling and in general whiny and it's becoming to much of a buyers market trying to drop prices down with talks of how the community should be and what not.
In general both sides are right. We should hold this community to a higher standard than ebay, and try to give each other deals, but at the same time it doesn't mean that someone can't turn a profit.
The end goal should always be the same. From an interaction both the buyer and seller walk away happy.
Yes, the division codes are a 1500x mark up from 1 cent. So what? get over it, at the $15 selling price you are still saving more than the seller is making off the code compared to buying off Uplay. The only one getting screwed in that situation is either new egg or the publisher as they are the ones that either have to pay for the game you just got at a reduced price or deal with the lost sale for the game you got for the penny sale. And I am not saying don't buy penny glitches. Gaming isn't cheap, if you can afford to help support companies by buying their game for full price that is great, if not just enjoying their product is also great. You don't have to buy the keys at a mark up like that. (though I do agree that if a key is from a bundle that is currently going on or from a glitch that it should be mentioned in the post, but while I personally do that I don't really feel it has to be a rule just something people hopefully would do on their own)
That talk about community, I totally agree we should be a great one, but seriously that doesn't mean sellers have to sell at or near their own personal cost of the item, it doesn't mean that they can't go above MSRP, it just means that we should strive to make sure all parties involved are happy. I personally aim to price my stuff at least 10-20% lower than current market price on most things (taken from ebay, amazon or other similar sites). If that isn't enough then well you are always free to go elsewhere and pay more or hope that someone else is going lower, but these endless our community should be priced lower posts are annoying, especially since the same few people often either start them or quickly chime in to build steam.
tl;dr Stop focusing on the fact that you could have potentially gotten something cheaper and just enjoy the fact that you are still getting a great deal. It's better in general if you focus on the pluses in life instead of focusing on the negatives.
Well, this is a community first and foremost. If someone's going to try swindling people then they will get called out.
full blown swindling, sure.
this is not a case of swindling.
If the glitch was still active and easy for people to get that would be one thing. Just like if you come in here and try to sell codes from a current bundle at a price higher than you can get them from in the bundle (aka coming in here with a $1 humble bundle tier set of games from an active bundle and trying to sell them for $2)
If the bundle is done, or the glitch is closed though, it doesn't matter how much that person paid for the codes as long as they are valid codes that won't be revoked (part of the reason a glitch tag wouldn't be bad as they have a tiny chance of being revoked) It's not swindling you to sell you something for less then you could pay for it anywhere else. That is called a deal.
