Mike, sincere question: are you new to online forums?
Despite what you seem to think, you are not winning this exchange. You brought the annoyance and mockery of this community down on yourself with your laughably entitled attitude, and with every post you invite more pile-on. Before too much longer you are going to cause this thread to be closed.
Please be my guest and close this dumb thread before your friends burn it down.
The mockery by people who obviously don't understand simple logic is not hurtful at all to me, it's merely tedious. With regard to NIB M pricing, an eBay seller has sold well over a dozen NIB Lexmark M's (fullsize) for $175 recently. NIB Lexmarks are far more commonplace than NIB 1391010's in absolutely perfect new condition with all rivets intact but I guess the $200 + $20 shipping I paid was considered by Mr. Ed as being far too much. Well, compared to his broken one, I guess it was a lot. But then again, I didn't buy it in order to sell it off immediately. As I originally stated IIRC (many posts ago) I was going to wait a year or two when the going prices had climbed some more -- like any smart investor would do.
I guess GH'ers feel that any vendor who makes a reasonable profit is obviously "up to no good". Well I didn't know GH was run and frequented by communists. Tell you what, go live in North Korea for a while and then tell me how wonderful a non-capitalist society is.
In regard to the quote about my being concerned that I would have difficulty making enough profit off the sale of some recently-purchased NIB SSK's to make it worthwhile (as in worthwhile buying them to begin with, since I did buy them in order to resell in a couple of years), that doesn't mean I'm out to rip off GH'ers like some of the fancy gaming keyboards you people buy, and which often generate 100% markup for their retailers. I'm not looking for 100% markup. I'm not Santa Claus either. I'm not going to sell anything for less than I paid for it nor for the same as I paid. Repeat, I am not Santa Claus. Get over it.
Now I'll leave you poor little flamers to keep flaming until you burn holes in each other's screens. I really do have far better things to do with my time. A recent GH acquaintance who is a real gentleman, something you wouldn't know anything about, told me I should stay on rather than leave, but just ignore the bozos. So I'll try to take his advice. Flame on! I'll be laughing at you the whole time.
