Hustle culture in general Is a blight of modern existence. Hobbies that are meant to be fun escapes from the grind of work ot schooling HAVE to be another way to 'get the bag'. Why bother in painting Miniatures when you can sell your service online? Why are you making Linolium block paintings when you can shove it on Etsy for a profit? It turns everything into the capitalism game of 'infinite money machine' and it's just tiring.
this is what capitalism does, as the old money pools up and swallows everything, the rubes have nowhere to go and every little thing is now turned into a profit machine, everything is an investment, you are not allowed to enjoy things, you must always make money on everything and anything, our global economy is not doing so good and because of that, you can't argue for letting people enjoy things because someone can come along and say something along the lines of: "tHeRe'S aN oPeNiNg In Da MaRkEtSS!" and ruin it for the rest of society as the rest of the people who don't want to be "left behind" flood said market with the same nonsense scheme as the first guy
It's extremely short-sighted and sociopathic. As such, it fits right into late-stage capitalism like a glove. Everything must be commodified and commercialized. Art and enjoyment are secondary to product. The line must go up infinitely. I saw a comment on a magic the gathering reddit thread along the lines of "if the secondary market didn't exist, the cards would have no value" You know, the cards. Used in a card game. Where they act as essential game pieces. Because "value" to these people only exists in $$$. Emotional and practical value of things does not exist in this worldview because those are only vehicles to allow $$$ to be obtained. It's the same solipsistic brain rot that the rich have where their attempts to look rich and wealthy just make themselves carbon copies of each other with no unique self-expression.
i remember my local savers would sell wiis, xbox 360s, even ps3s for 30 dollars in the electronics section in the open around pre 2020. Now they sell for 70 or 80 dollars enclosed so now you have to ask an employee to get the wii at checkout
I remember experiencing this firsthand last year. My friend is trying to get as many shiny Pokémon as he can, and I wanted to help, and one Pokémon we needed was Deoxys. Shiny Deoxys is only attainable (without hacking) via Pokémon Emerald on the GameBoy Advance, so I started looking for the game online, and DUDE. A legitimate copy goes for $150 MINIMUM. Beforehand, I was thinking maybe I could start collecting and playing retro games in the future, but after seeing what was happening there I immediately dropped that thought. Which is really sad. I absolutely love old technology (which is why I don’t want to emulate it), and I would’ve loved to have that hobby, but people who see it as an investment instead of a game are ruining it. P.S. I didn’t listen too well when Iwatodai Dorm was playing I was too busy singing along
it’s ridiculous how expensive they are considering they’re some of the most common games ever made, i used to want to buy a bunch of old games too until i ran into that roadblock P.S. so dance, if you wanna go ahead
Even if you use a real hardware there are ways that you don’t need the original game cartridge. Of course it’s not 100% the same experience but at least you are not playing on an emulator.
At this point, just get a GBA Everdrive Mini for $100 and go to town. Heck, you can get a GBA wireless adapter to go with it and you'll still be paying less than getting an original cart.
This kinda situation happened with the Tickle Me Elmo toys and the Beanie baby craze. Folks were buying up these "allegedly" rare variants of toys as some weird investment scheme, but eventually they all would lose value and be stuck with entire rooms of beanie babies in glass cases. It's funny cause they reaped what they sowed, but sad because they deprived children of items specifically meant for them. It's scummy behavior and it inherently is exploitative, the whole reselling market is pretty much a grift.
The problem is with gaming. Things only go up in value the older they are and don't go down in value when fads end because they have value due to accessibility and public perception.
Reminds me of my dad telling me that when the Princess Diana beanie bear came out my mom really wanted to buy it at a marked up price from a scalper. He made her wait and she ended up getting one at the normal price from a normal store.
I worked at thrift store for over a year. Do you know how hard it is to stand there and watch as you see the same resellers day by day, snatching some squishmallow or some other product from a child, just to make a few extra bucks? Disgusting and heartless people.
@therealjaystone2344 i doubt that hurts them, though. The majority of people trying to buy retro games in phsyical form are doing so to collect it. Not because they just want to play it again. The people who emulate are an entirely different group outside their target demographic.
The thrift store one is what irks me the most. I used to go to the thrift store to get nice things at a low price and also to help the environment by preventing it from going to a landfill. But now it feels super hard to do that and enjoy what I used to love because the store has to compete with scalping.
Being part of the SW lego fandom I was laughing my ass off when lego decided to release a captain Rex figurine in like a $10 set and resellers were loosing their fucking minds. Also I know other people have said this but the quality of your content is up there with the bigger commentary channels. You're gonna make it big bro
I used to know a women that did this as her “hustle” only she would steal most of the stuff she was re-selling for a higher price. So even worse than just re-selling.
Okay heres another thing. Im a manager of a thrift store and resellers are so stupid. Had an old couple come in and buy all the coffee mugs i had. Every mug is like .50- $2 each. Depends on the size. They told me they resell everything on ebay for what they think the cup is worth. So an old statbucks cup i had $1 on is now online for $15. Why would you do that when they got it from a thrift store. Just go to a thrift store and spend 1/4 the money. Also, if im not spending $40 on a cup now, what makes you think im gonna spend $80 in the future? Resellers really are dumb. Now, if they buy something and make it BETTER like redoing a dresser, then yes, do that. But reseller, i dont give a shit about your 2005 starbucks cup.
this stuff is so frustrating. i collect toys and theres a lot of lines that are just impossible to buy second hand. even ones that are still out which is just insane and should never have happened. one of the first things i always say to ppl about my hobby is how much i hate resellers.
I collect dolls and this is happening with those too. like i’m not going to pay 400 dollars for a doll that was originally 25 dollars and was mass produced… it’s crazy. Makes you feel defeated knowing you’ll never be able to add your favorite things to your collection because you’re not rich:(
This is happening to CRT televisions for retro gaming too :( since they don't get made anymore, flippers and scalpers just skyrocket the prices. I started getting into old tech a few years before covid, now prices of CRTs have tripled and I cant even buy a PVM for about 100 euros to check out some cool features or something. They get sold now for about 1k ;-;
I feel like there's always going to be two kinds of buyers: enjoyers and speculators. I'm not sure how to deal with this. It seems like the speculators need the enjoyers to create the base of the market first before they can come in and start buying things as, theoretically, there needs to be some enjoyer at the end of the chain otherwise it's just speculators selling things to each other, which is what I kinda think the modern art world is. In a semi-related story, when I was a kid I remember watching Antiques Roadshow on PBS for the first time and spending a good year or so being basically unable to open any toy I got because little me was terrified of destroying potential resale value.
When I first started collecting amiibo I was worried about resale value. Until I realized that you can't actually use amiibo while they're still boxed (most have a little aluminum thing beneath the figurine in box that prevents the NFC chip from connecting with anything, likely to prevent them from being used in store), and honestly I'd rather be able to use the thing that I bought instead of holding on to it for some imaginary value that it might not even have years in the future.
Why buy something valuable if you don’t want to own and enjoy it is my mentality on it. Especially when it actually becomes a nightmare to find it and is valued for that reason. Money makes the world go round but it can’t buy these kinds of items a vast majority of the time. I’ve felt this real badly recently too with some mobile games specifically or previous versions of games that I can’t just own because they were never meant to be owned.
If there aren’t resellers then how to you get something you missed 10 years ago? I agree speculators are a problem with current things for sale. But that beloved store that you buy the original product is a reseller. Unless you buy directly from the manufacturer. Grading is indeed stupid. Alleged experts on “investing” miss that they cause artificial demand so it diminishes the real value. I’ll never say that you should resell for less than you paid. That’s ridiculous. No business would stay in business if everything was sold at a loss.
I don't think he ever stated that he wants resellers to completely stop what they are doing. The problem he describes is the fact that they are marking up the prices of these items to a ridiculous level. Not to mention that a lot of these resellers don't sell products that aren't available anymore, they sell products that they bought out in less than an hour after release giving no one else the opportunity to buy it at launch.
Actually I bought a Lego set for 2 minifigures that was discounted. I gave the rest of the set to my nephews, their reactions were so rewarding. It allowed me to know what they wanted for Christmas.
Whatever you do, don’t look into sneakers unless you want to really lose it. This shit had been going on forever though now it’s just exacerbated as it’s easier to pull off with the internet making resale so simple and keep anonymity high. People don’t have to see their victims separating them further from the impact and allowing them to be uncaring about anything but getting theirs. Good times.
This has been going on for every, eventualy most of the "valuables" become simple museum pieces as people who wanted them died off. Go to an antique market and see the prices of the dust covered things of old that sat there at the same prices because its old and rare. Collectors wamt to keep to in the box, the thing is now collectors are paying a mark up for crappy plastic that is of the quality of knock offs 20 years ago. One top of that unless people are rich the amount of glut in collectables is insane. This whole thing is set up to get to the Failure In Missing Out (FIMO) people. Sometimes we have to let it go as those flippers product may just end up in an auction somewhere for selling cheaply to another merchant that sells for less.
In elementary school we had to come up with our own super heros for a writing project. (My twin and i are now 20) My twins super hero was literally just my twin brother but he stopped transformers resellers/scalpers
back in about 2013-ish I asked my mom for a lego set for christmas. I accidentally saw it in the back of her trunk and got excited. Christmas came and went and I didn't get the lego set. I thought she'd returned it. Turns out she bought it because she saw you could sell toys online around the holidays for higher prices. I got the lego set 3 months later, as nobody wanted to buy a $300 lego set from some rando
You're not at all wrong. This just also applies to capitalism in general, this is just capitalism. Profit is always exploitative under capitalism, at least at some point in the process. This is just a form that feels particularly scummy. But it's not at all unique. As long as the profit motive exists this will be a problem. The state will not save us, businesses will almost never do anything to stop it, and people keep playing the game so the wheel keeps spinning and crushing everybody. Everything is a commodity under capitalism so everything is up for grabs and everyone below the top will be exploited. It's one of 2 big reasons I'm an anarchist, the other of which is obviously the state itself 🏴
the markup should always occur where value is added- be it in accessibility, the customer support, or individualization of the product. The reason flippers feel particularly scummy is that they do not add any value to the product or experience and instead stand as a gatekeeper for the consumer demanding their toll. It's equally frustrating for the manufacturer as well
i remember when i made a great rouge deck in yugioh but could only play casually with proxies (replacement print card instead of real card) since you couldnt play competitive with proxies and it really hurt me cuz some of the cards needed to be in the deck but were 100€+ in value 😭😭 i still play casually with my friends but its still not fair how pricey a piece of cardboard is....
man, im binge watching your content and i cant believe only 1,2k people have seen videos like this one. I see a lot of growth ahead of you, cheers all the way from Poland
I collect mh dolls and it’s absolutely insane when a new collector doll drops at Mattel creations only to be sold out in 5-10 and instantly resold on eBay by those people for insane prices. I am guilty of losing out on dolls despite being present on the release, and later going to eBay and paying 200+ instead of the typical retail price of 90… it’s just upsetting
I always have loved card games and collecting but I have never been able to participate in any tcg community due to the cost of actually accumulating a collection. Really sucks but it does look like the it’s getting better recently. Awesome video again gotta say
I used to play MTG competitively and was a collector. I hit a bad patch of "i work too damn much" burnout and couldn't play, so I sold out all but my most nostalgic cards for about $8k. If I wanted to rebuild that exact collection right now, I'd be better off buying a brand new SUV. For example, a particular favorite card of mine, Gaea's Cradle, went from just under $200 each, to around $1k each, and have since settled back to around $700 each. Scew that.
A lot of us couldnt even affort the normal price of lego I remember being over the moon when I got this $10 submarine lego as a kid. So I think the people paying double can afford it and dont mind paying for whatever it costs. (I also dont agree with reselling.)
The reselling BS should just be illegal. Treat people reselling stuff as a business, meaning requiring a permit, needing to give receipts and getting properly taxxed. Exception being if it's a one-off sale of different items (eg: house clearing before a move or something), although those should still be getting put on a book.
I've been into pokemon collecting since I was in grade 5 and now that I'm 21 I still collect for fun, but I feel it's changed so much since the Sun and moon era. You get a nice card and people would be happy and keep it. But nowadays when you don't want to get rid of it people think no is actually a maybe at the right price. I stick to my value of collecting cards I like, trade or sell ones I don't need. But nowadays people don't think of the beautiful art and passion, they think of the money it could rake in and it's kiiinda annoying when they try to buy your cards for months even after saying no for so long.
every time the omori plushies go back in stock (every like......... 8 months) they get sold out hella fast (within the first week) and the resells on ebay are almost always around 2x+ the price (original plushies are $28 each which is already expensive, ebay resells are like $50-100+) (and 50 is CHEAP for resold plushies) when the faraway plushies got released yesterday, the kel plushie sold out in ONE HOUR, i noticed that people were selling presales on ebay for $80!!!! wtf man!!!!!!!
I'm a lego fan and the new d&d figures have been sold out everywhere. the dragonborn paladin is going for like $20 on the aftermarket, which is insane. i was able to get four, but i was hoping to get closer to 8 before they retire, but i probably won't be able to because of scalpers.
I remember collecting GameCube games because I loved that console and played the games. Now “hustle” culture is basically for the love of money we will supersede humanity and for the love of something.
I've had to deal with this pretty recently, I was selling over 800 yugioh cards that where valued over 1,100$ for only 800$ but the dude that wanted them was so worried that he wouldn't get his value for the investment even though he said he was just a returning playing trying to get into the game. He talked me down a few hundred dollars cause I was just wanting to help someone get into the hobby I love but I feel like he just wanted the cards at the same price a card shop would pay for them.
I've collected Pokemon cards since 2007, and most people irl think I do so because of the resale money/ investment, it's so annoying. "You should get that graded it's worth a lot" no go away. Also, I "collect" the Pokemon games, I play them all and bought them on release. I purchased some older games a while back for a normal price (like Emerald for €25), but since around 2019? if i wanted to buy Emerald again? I'd have to pay around €200. It sucks
i collect fashion dolls and the resellers for this niche are so. oh my god. words can't describe how horrible they are, especially for collector releases💀
I was lucky that i picked up a 3090 back in december 2020 for 1650 euros which is msrp for me since there are import fees and all that tax stuff. So after the 90 euro profit for the store i bought it from. It was basically the stock price. However when the year 2021 hit that same card was easily almost 800 euros more for almost a year and a half. On ebay it wasn't any better you could see people buying a rtx 3080 8gb for 3000 cad. That traumatized me.
Scalping sucks but just because someone resells graded items or even just items without grading them doesn't mean they aren't a fan. They can be collectors. I don't do any of these things and thankfully I kicked my MtG addiction years ago but scalpers and collectors are different. Collectors may buy and sell items as "investors" but fundamentally they are different than scalpers. At least that's my opinion
Apparently there’s a fandom behind build a bear collecting? Eitherway reddit recommended me their sub and I saw a cute cat stuffed animal with lil pumpkins on it! Man how cute, I love cats. I also barely ever want a damn stuffed animal, so this thing got me. Well it was completely sold out, and while looking up more information (like if it’ll release again next year) I see resellers for it, trying to sell it for hundreds of bucks…. Guys this cat started off as like $35, which was already kinda a lot for my broke ass what makes you think I wanna buy this shit for 150+ LOL
There is a really really Niche product from the 80s that I really want it’s typically like $250 but it’s hard to find and one person keeps buying up every time it’s available and then we selling it for $700 but no one buys it I need just sucks because like why it’s a really really Niche thing I need to make it more rare by buying up every single one
I hate resellers when it comes to hotwheels these dude will wake up everyday at 7:00 am to snatch all the hotwheel premiums if they could enter the back of Walmarts and targets they would snatch all the Mattel boxes I hate them since I can’t ever get the ones I want since they sell them for 20-40 bucks I hate scalpers too
It's hard not to agree with you on the overall theme of this video, because all your points about children not getting to enjoy toys, or how people making money on things they have no connection with is shitty etc are all valid and understandable. In fact, it really pisses me off that a lot of my hobbies have been taken over by this, and it makes everything unnecessarily expensive. I used to shop a lot in thrift stores for clothes and video games, but now I do actually see people fighting to grab them off each other in order to then list it on ebay. The thrift stores then raise the prices or just list it on ebay themselves. I am also very confident that most of the ebay sales are just resellers selling to other resellers. What I think you are missing in your video, however, is why people are doing the "reselling"/scalping so much these days, and it's because a huge amount of people are really struggling to survive. The 'gig economy' and the rise of 'hustle culture' are very much linked, as are people sleeping in cars and buying everything they can at thrift stores in order to sell. Yes, there are tons of big youtubers or other personalities who make a lot of waves by how much they make, but I think your average "reseller" is more likely to be just a normal person trying hard to pay bills and rent. The unfortunate reality is that when I was collecting cards as a kid in the 90s it was a lot easier for an adult to have a stable job and be able to afford a home. Couple that with the fact that many people would rather cut their living costs in areas like food rather than their hobbies, and of course there will be those that are pushed to taking advantage of others' hobbies through reselling. Essentially all our entertainment is destined to be ground down into profitability, so don't hate the player, hate the game.
Yeah i wholeheartedly disaggre with your second part of your statement scalpers and "resellers" are not struggling peoples when the coof hit i was jobles as millions of other peopels but i don't started to buy up kids toys and resell them 200% mark up i found another fking job it took 1,5-2 years in the menatime i was a basic daylaborer with ver ylittle money but i never give up my spine for a quick buck or went to sell "health supplements" for the elderly....
@@maszkalman3676 so you disagree with the premise because you personally didn't start reselling? I guess everyone around the world just got a job as a labourer.
@@zhukov2116 I disaggre with your notion that these scalpers are just peopels try to go by day to day they are massive scammers try to hike up prices....
@@zhukov2116 If you have a gull to charge 5 times the price and have time to wait for the sale you aren't just making money to live you are a fking scalper nothing more.
not all resellers suck i resell shoes, cards but if i see a kid that really wants it i’ll just give it to them cuz i can’t stand ppl who take from kids that’s disgusting and weird
Bro fell off
it’s so over guino bros….
@@antoguino it’s not over, because it never began
Hustle culture in general Is a blight of modern existence. Hobbies that are meant to be fun escapes from the grind of work ot schooling HAVE to be another way to 'get the bag'. Why bother in painting Miniatures when you can sell your service online? Why are you making Linolium block paintings when you can shove it on Etsy for a profit?
It turns everything into the capitalism game of 'infinite money machine' and it's just tiring.
this is what capitalism does, as the old money pools up and swallows everything, the rubes have nowhere to go and every little thing is now turned into a profit machine, everything is an investment, you are not allowed to enjoy things, you must always make money on everything and anything, our global economy is not doing so good and because of that, you can't argue for letting people enjoy things because someone can come along and say something along the lines of: "tHeRe'S aN oPeNiNg In Da MaRkEtSS!" and ruin it for the rest of society as the rest of the people who don't want to be "left behind" flood said market with the same nonsense scheme as the first guy
It's extremely short-sighted and sociopathic. As such, it fits right into late-stage capitalism like a glove. Everything must be commodified and commercialized. Art and enjoyment are secondary to product. The line must go up infinitely.
I saw a comment on a magic the gathering reddit thread along the lines of "if the secondary market didn't exist, the cards would have no value"
You know, the cards. Used in a card game. Where they act as essential game pieces.
Because "value" to these people only exists in $$$. Emotional and practical value of things does not exist in this worldview because those are only vehicles to allow $$$ to be obtained. It's the same solipsistic brain rot that the rich have where their attempts to look rich and wealthy just make themselves carbon copies of each other with no unique self-expression.
When i saw this video, i thought you had millions of subs. This is insane liked and subbed
i remember my local savers would sell wiis, xbox 360s, even ps3s for 30 dollars in the electronics section in the open around pre 2020. Now they sell for 70 or 80 dollars enclosed so now you have to ask an employee to get the wii at checkout
I remember experiencing this firsthand last year. My friend is trying to get as many shiny Pokémon as he can, and I wanted to help, and one Pokémon we needed was Deoxys. Shiny Deoxys is only attainable (without hacking) via Pokémon Emerald on the GameBoy Advance, so I started looking for the game online, and DUDE. A legitimate copy goes for $150 MINIMUM. Beforehand, I was thinking maybe I could start collecting and playing retro games in the future, but after seeing what was happening there I immediately dropped that thought. Which is really sad. I absolutely love old technology (which is why I don’t want to emulate it), and I would’ve loved to have that hobby, but people who see it as an investment instead of a game are ruining it.
P.S. I didn’t listen too well when Iwatodai Dorm was playing I was too busy singing along
it’s ridiculous how expensive they are considering they’re some of the most common games ever made, i used to want to buy a bunch of old games too until i ran into that roadblock
P.S. so dance, if you wanna go ahead
Even if you use a real hardware there are ways that you don’t need the original game cartridge. Of course it’s not 100% the same experience but at least you are not playing on an emulator.
@@patcangy its wild, like the only ppl buying those are other resellers and ppl that got tricked.
At this point, just get a GBA Everdrive Mini for $100 and go to town. Heck, you can get a GBA wireless adapter to go with it and you'll still be paying less than getting an original cart.
People like this are the reason why pirating old video games is always morally correct.
This kinda situation happened with the Tickle Me Elmo toys and the Beanie baby craze. Folks were buying up these "allegedly" rare variants of toys as some weird investment scheme, but eventually they all would lose value and be stuck with entire rooms of beanie babies in glass cases.
It's funny cause they reaped what they sowed, but sad because they deprived children of items specifically meant for them. It's scummy behavior and it inherently is exploitative, the whole reselling market is pretty much a grift.
The problem is with gaming. Things only go up in value the older they are and don't go down in value when fads end because they have value due to accessibility and public perception.
Reminds me of my dad telling me that when the Princess Diana beanie bear came out my mom really wanted to buy it at a marked up price from a scalper. He made her wait and she ended up getting one at the normal price from a normal store.
Your content is seriously of the same caliber as other big commentary channels. Love your work!
I worked at thrift store for over a year. Do you know how hard it is to stand there and watch as you see the same resellers day by day, snatching some squishmallow or some other product from a child, just to make a few extra bucks? Disgusting and heartless people.
There's a thrift store near my house that has a whole wall behind the front desk of pictures of resellers they've banned from the store
Now they have to compete against emulation/piracy when it’s free to download the ROMs without needing a physical format
@therealjaystone2344 i doubt that hurts them, though. The majority of people trying to buy retro games in phsyical form are doing so to collect it. Not because they just want to play it again. The people who emulate are an entirely different group outside their target demographic.
If you think those are heartless people wait until you hear about what killers are
@@Darkvalentine333 then they are wasting money on something defunctional. Until they realize you can download the ROMs for free.
The thrift store one is what irks me the most. I used to go to the thrift store to get nice things at a low price and also to help the environment by preventing it from going to a landfill. But now it feels super hard to do that and enjoy what I used to love because the store has to compete with scalping.
Are there any vintage kilo sales nearby? I think they tend to be pretty good
Still didn't answer the question
@@kimbrolyy I’m not sure but I’ll have to look around! I also have been wanting to go to an estate sale.
Being part of the SW lego fandom I was laughing my ass off when lego decided to release a captain Rex figurine in like a $10 set and resellers were loosing their fucking minds.
Also I know other people have said this but the quality of your content is up there with the bigger commentary channels. You're gonna make it big bro
I used to know a women that did this as her “hustle” only she would steal most of the stuff she was re-selling for a higher price. So even worse than just re-selling.
Okay heres another thing. Im a manager of a thrift store and resellers are so stupid. Had an old couple come in and buy all the coffee mugs i had. Every mug is like .50- $2 each. Depends on the size. They told me they resell everything on ebay for what they think the cup is worth. So an old statbucks cup i had $1 on is now online for $15. Why would you do that when they got it from a thrift store. Just go to a thrift store and spend 1/4 the money. Also, if im not spending $40 on a cup now, what makes you think im gonna spend $80 in the future? Resellers really are dumb. Now, if they buy something and make it BETTER like redoing a dresser, then yes, do that. But reseller, i dont give a shit about your 2005 starbucks cup.
this stuff is so frustrating. i collect toys and theres a lot of lines that are just impossible to buy second hand. even ones that are still out which is just insane and should never have happened. one of the first things i always say to ppl about my hobby is how much i hate resellers.
I collect dolls and this is happening with those too. like i’m not going to pay 400 dollars for a doll that was originally 25 dollars and was mass produced… it’s crazy. Makes you feel defeated knowing you’ll never be able to add your favorite things to your collection because you’re not rich:(
This is happening to CRT televisions for retro gaming too :( since they don't get made anymore, flippers and scalpers just skyrocket the prices. I started getting into old tech a few years before covid, now prices of CRTs have tripled and I cant even buy a PVM for about 100 euros to check out some cool features or something. They get sold now for about 1k ;-;
1k :O jeez
@@kimbrolyy Yeah its insane
Ikr I'm trying to get one for so long its annoying
it's only really on eBay they are that high, Facebook marketplace has a few hundred dollars with the occasional free one
I feel like there's always going to be two kinds of buyers: enjoyers and speculators. I'm not sure how to deal with this. It seems like the speculators need the enjoyers to create the base of the market first before they can come in and start buying things as, theoretically, there needs to be some enjoyer at the end of the chain otherwise it's just speculators selling things to each other, which is what I kinda think the modern art world is.
In a semi-related story, when I was a kid I remember watching Antiques Roadshow on PBS for the first time and spending a good year or so being basically unable to open any toy I got because little me was terrified of destroying potential resale value.
I had a similar experience with a bunch of figurines I would get as a kid, eventually I just got tired of it and ripped them all open.
@@antoguino I felt a great disturbance in my portfolio, as if millions of speculators suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
When I first started collecting amiibo I was worried about resale value. Until I realized that you can't actually use amiibo while they're still boxed (most have a little aluminum thing beneath the figurine in box that prevents the NFC chip from connecting with anything, likely to prevent them from being used in store), and honestly I'd rather be able to use the thing that I bought instead of holding on to it for some imaginary value that it might not even have years in the future.
Ex Yu-Gi-Oh and magic player here, thank you! More poeple should talk about this.
Why buy something valuable if you don’t want to own and enjoy it is my mentality on it. Especially when it actually becomes a nightmare to find it and is valued for that reason. Money makes the world go round but it can’t buy these kinds of items a vast majority of the time. I’ve felt this real badly recently too with some mobile games specifically or previous versions of games that I can’t just own because they were never meant to be owned.
Its just greed from flippers who want to profit off inflating market value.
If there aren’t resellers then how to you get something you missed 10 years ago? I agree speculators are a problem with current things for sale. But that beloved store that you buy the original product is a reseller. Unless you buy directly from the manufacturer. Grading is indeed stupid. Alleged experts on “investing” miss that they cause artificial demand so it diminishes the real value. I’ll never say that you should resell for less than you paid. That’s ridiculous. No business would stay in business if everything was sold at a loss.
I don't think he ever stated that he wants resellers to completely stop what they are doing. The problem he describes is the fact that they are marking up the prices of these items to a ridiculous level. Not to mention that a lot of these resellers don't sell products that aren't available anymore, they sell products that they bought out in less than an hour after release giving no one else the opportunity to buy it at launch.
Phoenix Resale single handily destroyed the collecting hobby
Him and his buddies always are proud about doing it too
Actually I bought a Lego set for 2 minifigures that was discounted. I gave the rest of the set to my nephews, their reactions were so rewarding. It allowed me to know what they wanted for Christmas.
Whatever you do, don’t look into sneakers unless you want to really lose it.
This shit had been going on forever though now it’s just exacerbated as it’s easier to pull off with the internet making resale so simple and keep anonymity high. People don’t have to see their victims separating them further from the impact and allowing them to be uncaring about anything but getting theirs. Good times.
This has been going on for every, eventualy most of the "valuables" become simple museum pieces as people who wanted them died off. Go to an antique market and see the prices of the dust covered things of old that sat there at the same prices because its old and rare.
Collectors wamt to keep to in the box, the thing is now collectors are paying a mark up for crappy plastic that is of the quality of knock offs 20 years ago. One top of that unless people are rich the amount of glut in collectables is insane.
This whole thing is set up to get to the Failure In Missing Out (FIMO) people. Sometimes we have to let it go as those flippers product may just end up in an auction somewhere for selling cheaply to another merchant that sells for less.
In elementary school we had to come up with our own super heros for a writing project. (My twin and i are now 20)
My twins super hero was literally just my twin brother but he stopped transformers resellers/scalpers
back in about 2013-ish I asked my mom for a lego set for christmas. I accidentally saw it in the back of her trunk and got excited. Christmas came and went and I didn't get the lego set. I thought she'd returned it. Turns out she bought it because she saw you could sell toys online around the holidays for higher prices.
I got the lego set 3 months later, as nobody wanted to buy a $300 lego set from some rando
You're not at all wrong. This just also applies to capitalism in general, this is just capitalism. Profit is always exploitative under capitalism, at least at some point in the process.
This is just a form that feels particularly scummy. But it's not at all unique. As long as the profit motive exists this will be a problem.
The state will not save us, businesses will almost never do anything to stop it, and people keep playing the game so the wheel keeps spinning and crushing everybody. Everything is a commodity under capitalism so everything is up for grabs and everyone below the top will be exploited.
It's one of 2 big reasons I'm an anarchist, the other of which is obviously the state itself 🏴
the markup should always occur where value is added- be it in accessibility, the customer support, or individualization of the product.
The reason flippers feel particularly scummy is that they do not add any value to the product or experience and instead stand as a gatekeeper for the consumer demanding their toll. It's equally frustrating for the manufacturer as well
i remember when i made a great rouge deck in yugioh but could only play casually with proxies (replacement print card instead of real card) since you couldnt play competitive with proxies and it really hurt me cuz some of the cards needed to be in the deck but were 100€+ in value 😭😭 i still play casually with my friends but its still not fair how pricey a piece of cardboard is....
i used to play pokemon tcg when i was a kid and it became way too hard to get my hands on cards for the same reason
man, im binge watching your content and i cant believe only 1,2k people have seen videos like this one. I see a lot of growth ahead of you, cheers all the way from Poland
I collect mh dolls and it’s absolutely insane when a new collector doll drops at Mattel creations only to be sold out in 5-10 and instantly resold on eBay by those people for insane prices. I am guilty of losing out on dolls despite being present on the release, and later going to eBay and paying 200+ instead of the typical retail price of 90… it’s just upsetting
The worst is when they put the item up on ebay for 5x the price before the item even drops
Dude your content is great. Idk how the algorithm brought me to your channel but im glad it did
I always have loved card games and collecting but I have never been able to participate in any tcg community due to the cost of actually accumulating a collection. Really sucks but it does look like the it’s getting better recently.
Awesome video again gotta say
i’m so excited for the pokemon tcg app to come out so i can just play the game without worrying about buying cards
I used to play MTG competitively and was a collector. I hit a bad patch of "i work too damn much" burnout and couldn't play, so I sold out all but my most nostalgic cards for about $8k.
If I wanted to rebuild that exact collection right now, I'd be better off buying a brand new SUV. For example, a particular favorite card of mine, Gaea's Cradle, went from just under $200 each, to around $1k each, and have since settled back to around $700 each. Scew that.
A lot of us couldnt even affort the normal price of lego I remember being over the moon when I got this $10 submarine lego as a kid. So I think the people paying double can afford it and dont mind paying for whatever it costs. (I also dont agree with reselling.)
The reselling BS should just be illegal. Treat people reselling stuff as a business, meaning requiring a permit, needing to give receipts and getting properly taxxed. Exception being if it's a one-off sale of different items (eg: house clearing before a move or something), although those should still be getting put on a book.
I've been into pokemon collecting since I was in grade 5 and now that I'm 21 I still collect for fun, but I feel it's changed so much since the Sun and moon era. You get a nice card and people would be happy and keep it. But nowadays when you don't want to get rid of it people think no is actually a maybe at the right price. I stick to my value of collecting cards I like, trade or sell ones I don't need.
But nowadays people don't think of the beautiful art and passion, they think of the money it could rake in and it's kiiinda annoying when they try to buy your cards for months even after saying no for so long.
every time the omori plushies go back in stock (every like......... 8 months) they get sold out hella fast (within the first week) and the resells on ebay are almost always around 2x+ the price (original plushies are $28 each which is already expensive, ebay resells are like $50-100+) (and 50 is CHEAP for resold plushies)
when the faraway plushies got released yesterday, the kel plushie sold out in ONE HOUR, i noticed that people were selling presales on ebay for $80!!!! wtf man!!!!!!!
Stop cursing its a sin dude
I'm a lego fan and the new d&d figures have been sold out everywhere. the dragonborn paladin is going for like $20 on the aftermarket, which is insane. i was able to get four, but i was hoping to get closer to 8 before they retire, but i probably won't be able to because of scalpers.
Your videos are really good! I have a really hard time focusing on anything but those rings of light reflecting on your glasses tho lol.
I remember collecting GameCube games because I loved that console and played the games. Now “hustle” culture is basically for the love of money we will supersede humanity and for the love of something.
I've had to deal with this pretty recently, I was selling over 800 yugioh cards that where valued over 1,100$ for only 800$ but the dude that wanted them was so worried that he wouldn't get his value for the investment even though he said he was just a returning playing trying to get into the game. He talked me down a few hundred dollars cause I was just wanting to help someone get into the hobby I love but I feel like he just wanted the cards at the same price a card shop would pay for them.
I've collected Pokemon cards since 2007, and most people irl think I do so because of the resale money/ investment, it's so annoying. "You should get that graded it's worth a lot" no go away.
Also, I "collect" the Pokemon games, I play them all and bought them on release. I purchased some older games a while back for a normal price (like Emerald for €25), but since around 2019? if i wanted to buy Emerald again? I'd have to pay around €200. It sucks
i collect fashion dolls and the resellers for this niche are so. oh my god. words can't describe how horrible they are, especially for collector releases💀
I was lucky that i picked up a 3090 back in december 2020 for 1650 euros which is msrp for me since there are import fees and all that tax stuff. So after the 90 euro profit for the store i bought it from. It was basically the stock price.
However when the year 2021 hit that same card was easily almost 800 euros more for almost a year and a half. On ebay it wasn't any better you could see people buying a rtx 3080 8gb for 3000 cad. That traumatized me.
Scalpers go straight to the 7th circle of Hell.
Here before the algorithm blows this up
Scalping sucks but just because someone resells graded items or even just items without grading them doesn't mean they aren't a fan. They can be collectors. I don't do any of these things and thankfully I kicked my MtG addiction years ago but scalpers and collectors are different. Collectors may buy and sell items as "investors" but fundamentally they are different than scalpers. At least that's my opinion
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Apparently there’s a fandom behind build a bear collecting? Eitherway reddit recommended me their sub and I saw a cute cat stuffed animal with lil pumpkins on it! Man how cute, I love cats. I also barely ever want a damn stuffed animal, so this thing got me.
Well it was completely sold out, and while looking up more information (like if it’ll release again next year) I see resellers for it, trying to sell it for hundreds of bucks…. Guys this cat started off as like $35, which was already kinda a lot for my broke ass what makes you think I wanna buy this shit for 150+ LOL
Discovering you under 3k. You'll be at 1 milli soon.
There is a really really Niche product from the 80s that I really want it’s typically like $250 but it’s hard to find and one person keeps buying up every time it’s available and then we selling it for $700 but no one buys it I need just sucks because like why it’s a really really Niche thing I need to make it more rare by buying up every single one
You are so underrated! New sub!
US Sega Saturn games prices are ridiculous. Fucking Rayman on Saturn is 10x more expensive than if you bought it on PS1.
Rip your phone
It's just like with people selling NFTs.
Lego needs to rerelease the Pirates of the Caribbean theme again. These prices be wild.
Phoenix Reseller 😂
I will take on reselling and profiting off of AA batteries. Used dead batteries will sell as collectibles.
I’m commenting and liking to hopefully get you more views! Woooo!
I hate resellers when it comes to hotwheels these dude will wake up everyday at 7:00 am to snatch all the hotwheel premiums if they could enter the back of Walmarts and targets they would snatch all the Mattel boxes I hate them since I can’t ever get the ones I want since they sell them for 20-40 bucks I hate scalpers too
your outrage fuels me 👍
To bad this will fall on deaf ears
Ah yes, the age old topic of 'Resellers' (coughcoughscalperscoughcough), fuck mate
As a Bionicle fan this is a painfully relatable topic
I see so many resellers accounts on tic tok I can’t stand it
It's hard not to agree with you on the overall theme of this video, because all your points about children not getting to enjoy toys, or how people making money on things they have no connection with is shitty etc are all valid and understandable. In fact, it really pisses me off that a lot of my hobbies have been taken over by this, and it makes everything unnecessarily expensive. I used to shop a lot in thrift stores for clothes and video games, but now I do actually see people fighting to grab them off each other in order to then list it on ebay. The thrift stores then raise the prices or just list it on ebay themselves. I am also very confident that most of the ebay sales are just resellers selling to other resellers.
What I think you are missing in your video, however, is why people are doing the "reselling"/scalping so much these days, and it's because a huge amount of people are really struggling to survive. The 'gig economy' and the rise of 'hustle culture' are very much linked, as are people sleeping in cars and buying everything they can at thrift stores in order to sell. Yes, there are tons of big youtubers or other personalities who make a lot of waves by how much they make, but I think your average "reseller" is more likely to be just a normal person trying hard to pay bills and rent. The unfortunate reality is that when I was collecting cards as a kid in the 90s it was a lot easier for an adult to have a stable job and be able to afford a home. Couple that with the fact that many people would rather cut their living costs in areas like food rather than their hobbies, and of course there will be those that are pushed to taking advantage of others' hobbies through reselling.
Essentially all our entertainment is destined to be ground down into profitability, so don't hate the player, hate the game.
Yeah i wholeheartedly disaggre with your second part of your statement scalpers and "resellers" are not struggling peoples when the coof hit i was jobles as millions of other peopels but i don't started to buy up kids toys and resell them 200% mark up i found another fking job it took 1,5-2 years in the menatime i was a basic daylaborer with ver ylittle money but i never give up my spine for a quick buck or went to sell "health supplements" for the elderly....
@@maszkalman3676 so you disagree with the premise because you personally didn't start reselling? I guess everyone around the world just got a job as a labourer.
@@zhukov2116 I disaggre with your notion that these scalpers are just peopels try to go by day to day they are massive scammers try to hike up prices....
@@maszkalman3676 Why can't a person charge inflated prices and not also be a person trying to make money to live?
@@zhukov2116 If you have a gull to charge 5 times the price and have time to wait for the sale you aren't just making money to live you are a fking scalper nothing more.
Yeah I would love to buy games for my psp but the only store place in my area sells the for like 20ish a pop
Bro you butchered that
@myself I know
I blame Gary Vee for this tbh
8:38 I have a game exchange near me too.
10:31 passion of creation?? that’s like joy of creation omg fnaf reference!?!?
i actually almost said that too bc i watched a video on it recently
@@antoguino lmao
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not all resellers suck i resell shoes, cards but if i see a kid that really wants it i’ll just give it to them cuz i can’t stand ppl who take from kids that’s disgusting and weird
That's why I only collect the games. Still expensive to get the older ones but at least it's not like thousand's of dollars.
just wait for the price to go down lol
Should have named this vid: "Commie Edgelord Teen Learns What Capitalism Is"
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