You know, I love this "free market" argument. Why are flippers bad? If there's someone willing to pay, then there should be someone willing to sell. While I agree with that, I must say that this has never, and will never make any kind of artform interesting. If anything, using the free market argument on anything makes it just pale and dumb. Because that is what a free market is: buy cheap, sell expensive. There is no culture, there is no humanity in that. Just money.
See for instance what people "post-modern" plastic arts. Since they have gone sky high in value, all people have seen as dollar signs. Today "post-modern" means just effortless, creatively bankrupt pieces of garbage that will get rated millions of dollars just because.
A hobby is not made of profit. People using keyboards as investments and buying bulks of keysets/keyboards to sell them at higher prices later are enabling bad designers and crap projects to come to fuition due to the bloated market this becomes. This in turn makes the community lose the notion of objectivity, beggining to rank boards and keysets by their price and not by what they bring to the table (a new cool feature, new cool design characteristic, a nicely done mounting style, the list goes on.)
This does not make the hobby interesting or fun. This makes the hobby pale and uninteresting. So you guys using that argument might think you are outsmarting everyone here like you are some kind of Milton Friedman-level experts. No you are not. You are just lazy and dumb projects of flippers trying to get easy money on the detriment of a growing community, and unfortunately there have been a whole lot of you here lately. This community is already known as a getekeepy, steep entry and we don't need anymore of you pricks to strenghten that notion.
So yes, get the crap out of here. This hobby is made of people interested in innovating and being part of a knowledge and experience sharing culture. This was never about keyboards; it was always about being around interesting people and having fun. Keyboards are just a catalyst for bringing people together. I bet you won't understand that, because free market does not apply to happiness. That is Milton Friedman's quote, by the way.
All in all, you just don't understand what this community is about and you probably never will because all you see are big CHA CHING dollar signs. You are not wrong. You are just dumb.
