Some dingus on reddit is selling a Reaper for ~$400

[baldgye]

baldgye cmon...

am I thinking of someone else?

Nah you right on the money it was pulse too right before he went a little lala

But he's different now so let's not bring it back up but pulse r2 pls though serious time

oh ok he's changed so we let it all slide? r'ok. I keep forgetting the rules of GH

[joey]

You don't have to be anywhere near a millionaire to be able to spend $400 on something like that.

But you have to be a wealthy person, like I said. In my country, you have to be an extremely wealthy person or a millionaire if you're spending R$2000 on art like this. Otherwise you're trading let's say, a month's worth of dinner for a plastic token. And in this case, you're already falling into the outcome b).

The person buying it might not be from Brazil

[azhdar]

baldgye cmon...

am I thinking of someone else?

He's the one, but your comment wtf this is so wrong.

...doesn't that set go for similar amounts on ebay (it was Pulse right?) ?

I mean calling him a kid, designed in quotation marks, impying he's responsible for the ebay price of pulse because he's not producing more ?  Something something brocaps on the last point ?

[nmur]

You don't have to be anywhere near a millionaire to be able to spend $400 on something like that.

But you have to be a wealthy person, like I said. In my country, you have to be an extremely wealthy person or a millionaire if you're spending R$2000 on art like this. Otherwise you're trading let's say, a month's worth of dinner for a plastic token. And in this case, you're already falling into the outcome b).

tbh I know people that do not make much but live quite beyond their means, or spend large amounts on stuff they "have to have".

ie a $1500 record player + extras that was used for 1 week before selling at a large loss

you don't have to be rich to spend $400 on a cap. they just need to convince themselves that spending that money is worth it.

[SpAmRaY]

Let's not forget all the high schoolers spending mommy and daddy's money.

Before you all get pissy sure some of you work but come on we all know there are plenty of silver spoons out there.

[baldgye]

baldgye cmon...

am I thinking of someone else?

He's the one, but your comment wtf this is so wrong.

...doesn't that set go for similar amounts on ebay (it was Pulse right?) ?

I mean calling him a kid, designed in quotation marks, impying he's responsible for the ebay price of pulse because he's not producing more ?  Something something brocaps on the last point ?

He produces them? oh ok, I thought it was someone else that did that and sourced the plastics, colours, layouts, types of keys etc... my bad then.
I made no mention of BroCaps in that post though, just trying to point out the meaningless post he made about prices, when something he was responsible for went for similar costs because he didn't want to do a second round, or allow anyone else to do a second round without him (at least at the time).

[MiTo]

tbh I know people that do not make much but live quite beyond their means, or spend large amounts on stuff they "have to have".

ie a $1500 record player + extras that was used for 1 week before selling at a large loss

you don't have to be rich to spend $400 on a cap. they just need to convince themselves that spending that money is worth it.

You don't have to be rich, okay, but you have to have a relevant budget for futile "investments". A person that lives beyond their means and buy stuff that they "have to have" is already under the outcome b). If you convince yourself that it's okay to spend $400 on a cap, even if it that's gonna damage your finances than you are already under the outcome b). Either way, I was looking at this situation from the perspective of a 3rd world country person so that's a lot of money where I'm from. Obviously the buyer is not brazilian but if he is, then I'm fairly sure he's extremely wealthy. Or crazy.

[pr0ximity]

These monthly threads are great. See you guys again in a few weeks!

[HoffmanMyster]

These monthly threads are great. See you guys again in a few weeks!

* HoffmanMyster waves to pr0x

See you soon!

[Fire Brand]

Let's not forget all the high schoolers spending mommy and daddy's money.

Before you all get pissy sure some of you work but come on we all know there are plenty of silver spoons out there.

Hey I EARNED my money



From cleaning my Mums car >_>

[demik]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

[Fire Brand]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

Hey hey hey Mr I did call him out in that thread I think anyway but serious time we have too many rules for one and none for another...

[FLFisherman]

Let's not forget all the high schoolers spending mommy and daddy's money.

Before you all get pissy sure some of you work but come on we all know there are plenty of silver spoons out there.

Hey I EARNED my money



From cleaning my Mums car >_>

That's still earning money. XD

And I don't think anyone here is allowed to say that it's dumb to pay $400 for one keycap. Yeah, they overpaid, but quite frankly just spending $20-$50 on one keycap seems ridiculous to a lot of people outside this community.

Here's a fun video:

[baldgye]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

Hey hey hey Mr I did call him out in that thread I think anyway but serious time we have too many rules for one and none for another...

woah m9 you cant talk **** to someone you want to befriend and then get stuff from... c'mon now

[Fire Brand]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

Hey hey hey Mr I did call him out in that thread I think anyway but serious time we have too many rules for one and none for another...

woah m9 you cant talk **** to someone you want to befriend and then get stuff from... c'mon now

Then stop giving me things Baldgye because I'ma bout to talk smack about you


<3

[demik]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

Hey hey hey Mr I did call him out in that thread I think anyway but serious time we have too many rules for one and none for another...

Yeah you aren't the one I'm talking about. You're consistent about this.

[tigersharkdude]

Lots of faces *****ing here not present in that eBay punks CC thread.

Picky ****s.

Hey hey hey Mr I did call him out in that thread I think anyway but serious time we have too many rules for one and none for another...

Yeah you aren't the one I'm talking about. You're consistent about this.

You didn't see me condoning spending $500+ on a CC either.

[baldgye]

oh! me sir! me sir!

[Waateva]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

[FLFisherman]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

Yes, because they're from reddit and reddit is a silly place. ^/s

[demik]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

Because gh is full of nosey mother****ers. And we pick and choose who gets a pass and who doesn't. When in the end it's really none of our problem who sells what the own. Or who buys what they can pay for. Sadly this will never go away.

[inanis]

People here waffle on this all the time. One day we care that caps are being flipped, another day we don't. Just how it is. And it is probably different people doing the caring in each instance.

If someone wants to spend their money on it, that's on them. I wouldn't, but that's on me. It is as simple as that as far as I see it. I'm not here to judge.

[jdcarpe]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

Yes, because they're from reddit and reddit is a silly place. ^/s

Nah, we don't need to blame reddit every time this happens.

It's because people are jealous of those who have that kind of money to throw around on artisan caps. I mean, for real. How you gonna get butthurt over someone selling and someone else buying, no matter what it is, and what price it sells for? Because they don't want market prices to be so high, in case they want to buy something, and don't have that kind of money to spend. That's it. reddit, no reddit, eBay, no eBay, makes no difference.

Just accept and move on, already. You will be much more content with your own life, if you stop worrying about what others are doing all the time.

[tigersharkdude]

How you gonna get butthurt over someone selling and someone else buying, no matter what it is, and what price it sells for? Because they don't want market prices to be so high, in case they want to buy something, and don't have that kind of money to spend. That's it. reddit, no reddit, eBay, no eBay, makes no difference.

I only care because it's almost like Wall Street in the sense that it feels like a group of people are artificially inflating the market. But here everyone acts like it's ok because its "their money".

[jdcarpe]

How you gonna get butthurt over someone selling and someone else buying, no matter what it is, and what price it sells for? Because they don't want market prices to be so high, in case they want to buy something, and don't have that kind of money to spend. That's it. reddit, no reddit, eBay, no eBay, makes no difference.

I only care because it's almost like Wall Street in the sense that it feels like a group of people are artificially inflating the market. But here everyone acts like it's ok because its "their money".

It's no conspiracy, brother. It's just people wanting to make a buck off those willing to spend it. Free market is free.

[SpAmRaY]

How you gonna get butthurt over someone selling and someone else buying, no matter what it is, and what price it sells for? Because they don't want market prices to be so high, in case they want to buy something, and don't have that kind of money to spend. That's it. reddit, no reddit, eBay, no eBay, makes no difference.

I only care because it's almost like Wall Street in the sense that it feels like a group of people are artificially inflating the market. But here everyone acts like it's ok because its "their money".

Blame the yogurt cartel...

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

seller is definitely not a dingus, and anyone who knows him would agree

[MiTo]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

In case your post was aimed at my reply, I'd like to clarify that I never made fun of the buyer nor questioned his rights on spending $400 on a resin keyboard keycap. Counter-Strike players, memorabilia collectors, basically everyone is free to spend money in whatever they want. I think that we all agree that this is unquestionable. People spend money on their hobbies, it can be a lot of money or sometimes just enough money. People have their budgets. I'm also not questioning the ethic behind flipping the keycap nor Bro's policies. Questioning these two is way beyond me.

While I agree that double standards do exist in this forum to different extents, the main topic of my reply was in using what happened as an exemple to bring to the light a discussion in regards of obsession and addiction. Since you mentioned Counter-Strike skins, I believe that you acknowledge that gambling sites are causing huge damage to the young player base. I won't go into specific Counter-Strike details, but gambling and obsession are being facilitated a lot nowadays due to the easy access to credit cards and direct financial transactions.

Perhaps, this Reaper situation fits perfectly as an example of the addiction/obsession phenomenon.

[jdcarpe]

I think a more appropriate comparison would be to art prints. The artist creates a painting, and we all know those original paintings often  sell for many thousands of dollars. However, PRINTS of the work are sold for hundreds of dollars. If the original outlet stops selling those PRINTS, the might be considered rare, and sell for several times markup from what the original PRINT sold for.

[HoffmanMyster]

And it is probably different people doing the caring in each instance.

I don't see how this could possibly be the case.  reddit is a single entity with a single voice.  Just like geekhack is a single entity with a single voice.  And they both suck. 

[Waateva]

Can someone remind me again why we care what people spend their own money on?  Some collector purchased a cracker from the Titanic a couple months ago for like $23,000 and people regularly pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for CS:GO skins and League of Legends accounts with rare skins and the last two aren't even physical items.  If someone wants to blow $400 or even $500 on a keycap they are certainly free to do so and everyone else is equally free to make fun of them for doing so, but do we really need a new thread every time one of these comes up for sale?

In case your post was aimed at my reply, I'd like to clarify that I never made fun of the buyer nor questioned his rights on spending $400 on a resin keyboard keycap. Counter-Strike players, memorabilia collectors, basically everyone is free to spend money in whatever they want. I think that we all agree that this is unquestionable. People spend money on their hobbies, it can be a lot of money or sometimes just enough money. People have their budgets. I'm also not questioning the ethic behind flipping the keycap nor Bro's policies. Questioning these two is way beyond me.

While I agree that double standards do exist in this forum to different extents, the main topic of my reply was in using what happened as an exemple to bring to the light a discussion in regards of obsession and addiction. Since you mentioned Counter-Strike skins, I believe that you acknowledge that gambling sites are causing huge damage to the young player base. I won't go into specific Counter-Strike details, but gambling and obsession are being facilitated a lot nowadays due to the easy access to credit cards and direct financial transactions.

Perhaps, this Reaper situation fits perfectly as an example of the addiction/obsession phenomenon.

Nah, it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular and not even at GH in particular because this same discussion goes on in pretty every /r/MechMarket post where an artisan is being sold at what people deem too high of a price.  I just don't get why people care what other people are spending money on, or for that matter, what price people are selling their own personal property for.

You make a good point about the addiction and obsession culture that is becoming more and more prevalent today though.  I think that the fantasy sporting websites like Draft Kings and FanDuel are also contributing to the problem, and they are reaching a different demographic that wouldn't normally be spending money for online entertainment.