There are electronics stores all over the tourist areas of NYC where they sell stuff at outrageous prices. Plenty in Times Square area. They will take a $900 iPhone and mark it for $3,000, and then have a big dramatic mark down to $2500. Tons of these stores. What they are looking for is an uneducated consumer. Maybe someone even unfamiliar with US currency, trying to bamboozle them into a indefensibly terrible transaction. On more than one occasion I have shooed people away from these stores and directed them to a real chain store with honest prices.
I have no problem with flippers. I have sold things at a profit myself. What makes me gag a little is when someone buys a picture at RHY for $500 and tries to immediately sell it for $2900. Purely hypothetical of course. I think that seller is basically fishing for someone on EBay who is not educated and who thinks they are paying market value and maybe even grabbing some great investment. I think it's akin to trying to find someone to pay $3000 for an iPhone. At some point a profit is cool. And money for nothing (and your checks for free) is American to the core. But at some point you are not looking for a decent transaction but fishing for a rube.
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Originally Posted by Hxcmilkshake
Are you upset because he's flipping the card? I'm sure a half of us on this board have flipped / flip cards. Or is it cuz he's trying to hit a homerun / asking a ridiculous price? Without knowing the card it's hard to really weigh in. He may be a crock pot if he's selling a $1,000 card for 3/4x that and those are fun to gawk at /laugh at.
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