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   Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 01:57:43 JST Tech Tangents

   There's been two sellers on ebay re-listing the same garbage kids game for ~$80 for months and every time they do I re-make the same reasonable offer that gets auto-rejected. Like, read the room, I'm probably the only person on the planet who even wants a physical copy of it. The sum totally of all videos views of it on YT are less than 15k.

   Don't be that seller.

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 03:39:12 JST HP van Braam

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     @TechTangents I'm in the same boat with various bits and pieces of Sun kit.

     Some people just think that because EVERYONE is asking $500 for something it's worth $500, not realizing that if they are listed it means they aren't selling...

     I keep making offers, pretty sure I'm the only one too. It doesn't say "active offers" or "in shopping carts" and stuff.

     Some people really don't understand how this is supposed to work. 😄

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     Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 05:08:20 JST Tech Tangents

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     I would say selling used items in general is. There was a Zia Records near me that had a Game Boy Micro for $140 when places like target were still trying to clear them out for like $30. They kept it on the same self at the same price until years later when it was now a collectable and I assume someone caved and bought it.

     Trying to hoard everything until it appreciates to the price you want seems like a terrible strategy.