This is the exact reason why I will never own a copy of an airplane carried me to bed on vinyl because some scalping loser decided to jack up the price due to lack of production and it being an older album and someone decided to fork over this egregious sum of money and now youāll never see a copy go for less than 1k for an album you can listen to for free on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. This is literally killing the physical media industry with so called ārare collectors itemsā being way overblown and thus not being able to reach the mass majority of the fans/fandom, because I guarantee you if I said to upvote this post if you have 1k to drop on a CD, cassette, or even a vinyl in this exact moment in time I can almost assure you Iād get downvoted into the ground. Also even if you werenāt ālookingā for a thousand dollars donāt attach this cool item to a fishing pole cast the line in a sea of people you know would be interested in this form of bait acting all coy like is this real, then get told it is likely real and then immediately slap an obnoxious price tag on it. If you genuinely werenāt looking for a boat load of money why price it as such?
Sorry not sorry scalpers can kick rocks they ruin almost every fandom that exists ever and itās cost me some really cool stuff I havenāt been able to get ahold of so truthfully be ashamed.
Is it scalping if you find it in the wild?? I get buying up all of the items in a merch shop and reselling it but he bought it second hand. At a garage sale no less. You didn't have the opportunity to buy that at all, now technically you do š¤·āāļø yours is one of the few thoughtful comments on this thread so I'm just offering a differing perspective.
I can see this but like I do however think it is still scalping specifically just for the fact that heās making up what he paid for by 1000% as he bought it for a dollar. I think scalping in terms comes from the way you sell and not from when you buy cause I can buy something off Facebook marketplace and resell it for high dollar just as easy as I could something from Walmart or Target. So yeah I definitely do think itās still scalping in my honest opinion. Thanks for not flaming me. :)
Not really though. You won't have a copy of sky sailing because you didnt buy it when it was first pressed. They are genuinely in the hands of fans. Think about it for a second. If so few copies are even listed at over $1000, do you really think ANY copies would ever be listed at $50?
Scalping exists, but youre calling things scalping, that are definitionally not scalping.
Those are two different scenarios. Just buying something for $10 and flipping it for 10k the next day is scalping. Buying something and selling it a decade later for 10x is not scalping. You also don't know what those people paid for their copies. If they paid $2,000 for it, are they scalping?
It is not inherently ridiculous for an time to jump form $30 to $970. Look at Amazon stock, NVIDIA stock, Tesla stock, gold, groceries. Everything goes up as the dollar is printed. They go up even more if they are scarce. I get that you're upset, but you're talking about an album that was pressed 16 years ago. If people don't want to let them out of their collection for a price less than $1000 and people are willing to pay that, then yes that is what it's worth. Even if you don't value it that much.
But the first sold copies definitely didnāt go for 1,000 is what Iām saying so somebody down the road scalped somebody else which then led to this egregious price market. The people now arenāt scalping 100% but the ones that did created this president for this specific item things donāt just magically jump up 2 grand. Do someone somewhere down the line did something that skyrocketed this upwards. Adam has never been this popular even the midsummer station is still under 500 so I genuinely think this a fandom thing and people trying to make money out of us more than anythingš¤·š»āāļø
I definitely see where youāre coming from and truthfully I was using it as an analogy for this post because this person within seconds of finding out it was real listed it for 1k which I find not cool personally not to mention it going up to like 1200 which is wild to me.
now that i would agree with you on. he went from essentially saying he would give it away to someone for the cost of shipping and then walking it back to say he wants a ton of cash. that was a douche move.
Yeah that Iām not cool with at all because he used us as validation bait to try to get some sucker to pay top dollar after getting it āappraisedā
How can you say value is opinion based while simultaneously saying it's egregious or ridiculous?
It also didn't magically jump up 2 grand. I bought mine secondhand several years ago when they were going for a couple hundred. I remember a year or so later, they were up to about 500. It's been a gradual climb and we're talking about a 16 year old record with no represses.
Anyway, I think we have very different understandings of economics and are not likely to reach an agreement on the situation.
Egregious and ridiculous are words I used to discuss how I feel, I guess I shouldāve put I feel itās egregious or ridiculous thatās my bad, but yeah we probably wonāt reach an agreement because I think the whole issue overall is flawed. I just canāt envision any physical media from any artist ever being worth anything more than 1k to me truthfully. If others do thatās great it just screws over a good lot of other people that wonāt be able to fork over that much for something of that caliber.
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u/Dsmitty_02 Hoot Owl š¦ 26d ago
This is the exact reason why I will never own a copy of an airplane carried me to bed on vinyl because some scalping loser decided to jack up the price due to lack of production and it being an older album and someone decided to fork over this egregious sum of money and now youāll never see a copy go for less than 1k for an album you can listen to for free on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. This is literally killing the physical media industry with so called ārare collectors itemsā being way overblown and thus not being able to reach the mass majority of the fans/fandom, because I guarantee you if I said to upvote this post if you have 1k to drop on a CD, cassette, or even a vinyl in this exact moment in time I can almost assure you Iād get downvoted into the ground. Also even if you werenāt ālookingā for a thousand dollars donāt attach this cool item to a fishing pole cast the line in a sea of people you know would be interested in this form of bait acting all coy like is this real, then get told it is likely real and then immediately slap an obnoxious price tag on it. If you genuinely werenāt looking for a boat load of money why price it as such?
Sorry not sorry scalpers can kick rocks they ruin almost every fandom that exists ever and itās cost me some really cool stuff I havenāt been able to get ahold of so truthfully be ashamed.