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wow, that was a great deal. That is capitalism at its finest.

You weren't ripping anyone off. You were providing a service where they could get the product they wanted from the comfort of their PC at the price they were willing to pay for it.

Anything you buy, unless directly from the manufacturer, is marked up by some middleman. In this case, you were the middle man. Your customers just were not willing to hunt for a better price and were willing to pay what you posted it for. Congrats.

Now I know how to get better prices on stuff. Buy it cheap somewhere and sell on Amazon for tons. :)



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superchunk said:
wow, that was a great deal. That is capitalism at its finest.

You weren't ripping anyone off. You were providing a service where they could get the product they wanted from the comfort of their PC at the price they were willing to pay for it.

Anything you buy, unless directly from the manufacturer, is marked up by some middleman. In this case, you were the middle man. Your customers just were not willing to hunt for a better price and were willing to pay what you posted it for. Congrats.

Now I know how to get better prices on stuff. Buy it cheap somewhere and sell on Amazon for tons. :)

I understand it is capitalism, but sometimes things like this just make you feel scummy. Nothing legally wrong with it, but it's like selling people carbon credits that you pulled out of your ass. I wouldn't feel right selling those, but people are willing to pay for them

Also, I bought Zack & Wiki for $8, sold it for $22 over a year later. Too bad I didn't buy up ToysRus' rather large stock at the time.

e-bay probably would have been a better place to sell these though, as Amazon takes a 15% commision on videogames, so that was a pretty big chunk, but I was being lazy and I figured ~$10/each was enough profit for my small waste of time.




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Ew, you're into the scalping business.



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yeah i can see your gonna be really popular with customers



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nordlead said:

so I saw that Formla 1 2009 for Wii was a pretty good game (in another thread on this website) and decided to look into the price on Amazon thinking they may have it $5 off or something like that. To my surprise it was selling for $80 or more new. So I checked GameStop, and it was $39.99 and it said GameStop Exclusive.

So I had this brilliant idea, I'll post that I have one for sale on Amazon for $59.99 and see if it sells. Here I was thinking that people will be smarter than this, but it sold within hours. So I went over to the store and bought a copy for a profit of $9, once Amazon was done ripping me off (hey, can't complain since I'm ripping someone else off)

So, 1 copy sold, and I think to myself, I wonder how high the customer will go, and I jack the price to $64.99, but I accidentally placed 2. 2 more copies sold within hours. Crap, got to head back to the store again, 2 more copies bought and shipped. $23 more earned. Now, I'm getting a kick out of this, and I've netted slightly over $30 for almost no work.

So I post 1 last copy for $69.99 just to see what would happen. Sold within hours plus I got expediated shipping for an extra $3. Now thanks to me, the price of Formula 1 2009 has dropped to $65 new

(ok, you can tell me how horrible I am, but my experiment with consumers during the holiday period is complete and I have concluded they must be lazy, desperate, or both)


I bet you bought all the Princess Unicorn dolls too Dwight.



I do that sort of stuff.




lol so you're the reason games like Super Princess Peach are $95 on Amazon.



twesterm said:
lol so you're the reason games like Super Princess Peach are $95 on Amazon.

man, they had that at my bestbuy for $30 just last year




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