I sell vintage collectibles on eBay and every now and then I've come by this super desireable product from 2003 that I've been able to sell for almost 3k.

But this time the guy I bought from got mad when he realized that I'm making bank with his item. He's a former employee of the company and has like a garage full of these products, and now he's been dumping them on eBay for about 500 bucks for the whole year. He got so fucking mad that he made it his mission to nuke all my attempts to charge 3k for them, making sure their street value would now be cemented at 500.
Not just that, but nobody actually wants them anymore now that a surprise find of a garage full of them was brought into day light. They don't seem that scarce anymore.

You don't get how bad luck this is from my perspective. I had a sure thing going, I could buy these for almost nothing from eBay-unaware former employees of the company and get almost 3k every time with very little effort.

I like how seriously some people take re-sellers.
This guy took it to heart.

>>60529513 (OP)
it happens. You should have bought him out or partnered with him but you got greedy and lost your seat at the table

people like you don't deserve to make money. Good for him fucking you in the ass like that.

>>60529526
>Good for him fucking you in the ass like that

Tbh, he's acting like an emotionally tantruming baby, I cant respect that even from a business point of view

>>60529527
>I cant respect that even from a business point of view
he's making money and you're not

I respect that

Is selling collectibles on eBay worth doing? It seems collectibles like figures aren’t selling like they used to

>>60529535
it goes in waves. Sometimes ebay is hot, most of the time it's dead

>>60529527
better $500 guaranteed than $2999 once every 5 years.

this is the first lesson I learned in contracting. Better to win the job at 50% than get nothing at 100

>>60529540
>Better to win the job at 50% than get nothing at 100
OP got outmaneuvered and his tears are delicious.

not because I hate markups, but because I love competition.

>>60529513 (OP)
anyways, that wasn't BAD LUCK

that was you failing to partner, buy out, or sell out to a much better competitor.

sorry not sorry. You suck and you lost.
I said, Good day sir!

>>60529545
>MMM DELICIOUS OP TEARS MMMMH

Fucking lurker hyena you should respect people who make these threads and put themselves out there only so your lurking ass can leech amusement off them

>>60529557
Nah I feel your pain. I've been undercut on one of my favorite ebay items for sale.

but at the end of the day you got to hate the game, not the player, or something. Business doesn't care about your feelings or mine.

learn, do better next time. Offer the fucker whatever he wants for his garage full of inventory, or offer to sell him yours. Either way, learn from your mistake and move on to the next project.

unless you're too dumb to find another project, and in that case I'm sorry for your losses go get a real job.

>>60529564
I do sometimes wonder if capitalism was a mistake.
What if we should just give up the concepts of money and private ownership

How many times youre gonna make a thread about it

Nothing you can do about it, look for other items

>>60529565
wait, you went from $3k per sale to
>capitalism was a mistake

suck it up buttercup. learn your lesson and do better next time. Making free money is fine, but be conscious of all the other players out there. Some of them shit bigger than you.

This isn’t about some old sweat pants is it? Now what does it remind me of? Hmmm, he has a ton in storage , you were making 2-3k off of 1 pair, but for some reason the whole salesman wants the asking price to be much lower?
Why would anyone want less money?
Why would he make it his mission to screw you over? When he could also sale for 2-3k
I’m dumbfounded

>>60529515
resellers really are scum

>>60529615
if you saw $100k on the street for the first person to grab it, would you pick it up?

scum

>>60529619
If you saw 5c on the ground you'd run for it reseller boy

>>60529630
I don't get out of bed for less than $1000

>>60529572
The government should kill and seize the assets of all the ones that shit bigger than me

get fucked retard lmao