Dar 13.1 wrote:
Bill Nelson wrote:
hypnohighball wrote:
it's all a matter of perspective.
I agree, but there's a difference between selling something you don't want to another fan for a reasonable amount of money and the sheer greed exhibited by asking ridiculously high amounts, plus the deliberate exploitation shown by buying an album only to immediately put it up for sale with the intention of grabbing many times the original price. That's not exactly keeping things in perspective, it's taking advantage of the situation and being bare-faced enough to boast about it.Pure, discompassionate greed disguised as "good business sense" is something that's helped the world go very sour in some ways . No, re-selling cd's isn't killing the middle class, but taking advantage of good people , then coming to site where they gather , to justify "good business sense" is in incredibly poor taste , and rude as can be . Maybe good business sense, but lousy common sense, i.m.o.

Well, it's also called Capitalism and that's a whole other argument as to whether that is a good or bad thing.....
Let's say my uncle Bob decides to sell me his 1963 Chevy Corvette he's had in his garage and hardly ever driven because he knows he's not long for this earth. He sells it to me for a really good price, $6,000 because he, frankly, won't be needing the money and he likes me. I love the car, drive it around a while, but decide it's just not practical for me to keep and care for. I investigate the used car market and see that a car of that vintage and condition has been fetching around $600,000, which is 100 times the price that I paid! I can really use the money - is it "greedy" for me to sell the car at the going price and make a huge profit? Or should I resell the car for what I paid so it can be immediately snapped up by a reseller who will then himself go on to "flip" it for that huge profit I passed up because I didn't want to appear to be greedy and bad-mouthed online?
Hey, it's not me selling this stuff on ebay, it just doesn't bother me as much as many of you and I'm taking a "yin" to your "yang" for the sake of argument, that's all.