- Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:23 pm
#32142
I am not supporting flippers, but I do love to play devil's advocate. Think of it this way...
I live in nearby Dallas, but I spent 7 hours in the car, $50-60 on gas, $35 for a convention ticket, $50 for a TCM screening ticket, and maybe 3-4 hours standing in various lines over the course of the day. Let's say I wanted to see the screening but didn't have a record player or any interest in the vinyl. And I am handed this LP on the way out. What do I do with it? How much should I sell it for?
Let's give me below minimum wage for the drive and account for costs. If I didn't buy stuff at the con, the screening vinyl would have cost me $49 in wages and $140 in gas+tickets.
I am not taking the side of flippers, and they piss me off too. But these posters, records etc are commodities. I think it's a sad way (not to mention a generally inefficient way) to make extra cash, sure. But if someone out there is willing to spend $300 on a plastic music disc, and someone else has that disc and is willing to sell it for $300, we aren't going to be able to stop that from happening. Because 'Murica or something.