Fallout 4

[Vlad]

Originally Posted by treegate

Obviously you don't understand my posting. I said if nobody HERE on this site wants it then he should keep it and resell it. There should be no reason why he can't profit off of it if nobody here responds to him. It is quite gracious of him to offer it to fellow collectors here but if nobody wants it, why should he cancel it if he can make some money off it? Capitalism is a good thing. He can then sell for whatever amount he wants, even if its for more than what he paid. What is wrong with that? If it me and I offered it here for people at cost to help someone out and nobody responded I would sell it and let the secondary market dictate the price.

Actually, obviously you don't understand my point.

Obviously offering it here is a great thing and one of the reasons why this community is so lovely, but see, believe it or not the world of collectors is larger than this forum and keeping a second order of any sold out item is therefore making someone else in the world that wanted that miss out on getting it at retail price, perhaps even someone that now can't afford it and so only someone with enough money can get it from some reseller, oh, but wait, fuck being a good person and wanting things to be more fair for everybody as a whole when you can have capitalism and personal profit! Or at least that pathetic, tired excuse that resellers, scalpers and their sympathisers always end up using of bringing capitalism into an argument of what's actually the most fair for everybody as if your individual political views absolve you of being the sort of type to not give a shit about anybody else except your profit.

Personally, that's probably why I have a problem with it, I'm not a greedy, selfish, 'capitalist'. I want things to be more fair and to give people a chance and so I can look beyond personal profit and because of all of that, it frankly disgusts me, and in my opinion, as it should any other collector that gives any kind of a shit about their fellow collectors that they might make miss out on something they want.

Actually, to be honest, that's probably the point in that last paragraph, if it wasn't for profiteering, scalping scum, nobody might have to offer up extra unwanted orders because everybody's had a fair chance of getting it in the first place.