An Expensive Case of Buyers Remorse

[Briar Lee]

Scrounge up the $720K and pay off the obligation.
Do a live YouTube unboxing.
If there are 25 Gretzky cards, burn 23 of them right then and there.
Auction the surviving cards.

I dunno

The buyers will know they existed

Are there others?

 

[Searock Fan]

Ultimate example of the "positional good".

 

[jaytex1969]

Mindless consumerism is firmly embedded in our culture.

Fixed that for ya...

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One of my favorite lines!

 

[sablebrush52]

A fool and his money... I don't care how badly I might want something - I won't buy if the price is absurdly high, not just because of financial limitations, but out of principle. I don't support price gougers.
It seems that in our modern society, we're so accustomed addicted to the instant gratification of having everything we want delivered to our door with free two day shipping that we (collectively) have forgotten that it's possible, and perfectly acceptable, to do without (gasp) something that is not an actual necessity. I would even go so far as to argue that we have largely lost the ability to distinguish between necessity and desire. Mindless consumerism is firmly embedded in our culture.

It's an auction, so the final price is the result of competition between bidders. I wouldn't call that gouging. I don't entirely disagree with the rest of your post. Consumer credit card debt is at all time highs. If I can't buy it for cash I don't buy it, with a few exceptions. But something that goes on the card gets paid off each month.

 

[mortonbriar]

Why is no one talking about how much of a genius this guy is??

He figured out how to get that 'cute red head girl' at school to go out with him!

Its just a simple 40 year plan of building an empire so you have (almost) 3.75 million dollars in disposable income and then you buy some hockey cards!

How could she possibly say no?

He NAILED IT!

 

[Lumbridge]

It's an auction, so the final price is the result of competition between bidders. I wouldn't call that gouging. I don't entirely disagree with the rest of your post. Consumer credit card debt is at all time highs. If I can't buy it for cash I don't buy it, with a few exceptions. But something that goes on the card gets paid off each month.

Sure, an auction is an auction. The comment about price gouging was more of an extension of what I had previously said. I have a bad habit of letting my comments become a somewhat rambling stream of consciousness; perhaps I owe that to all the "codger" blends I smoke making me more codgerly.

 

[Lumbridge]

Why is no one talking about how much of a genius this guy is??

He figured out how to get that 'cute red head girl' at school to go out with him!

Its just a simple 40 year plan of building an empire so you have (almost) 3.75 million dollars in disposable income and then you buy some hockey cards!

How could she possibly say no?

He NAILED IT!

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