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Originally Posted by lehsreh
a response, here.
i do not call buying a night viper at 8$ and selling it around 20$ fair. not a fan either, more of a collector. a collector buys for the price and in hope then in the future they can get big money. a fan buys for the love and help other fans out(like most on here, ender and many, many others). and as for calling the funskool crap, take a look, no big changes there. but i guess when your selling the original for 20$ or so you have to make the other stuff seem like crap so people buy your stuff.
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Sorry, but I can't agree with the words. It is a simple matter of semantics. What you are describing here is a re-seller (can also be a collector: a re-seller collector). They do not perform any illegal act, of course, but from my POV, yeah, it is not "fair" (or insert here any other word you may find out to describe what they do); so, I NEVER buy from such people, simply because I don't want to help them to increase inflation.
Now, the second part, what you call a fan, I call it a collector (non re-seller collector). A collector is in 90% of the times a fan, but it may be possible for a collector not to be, I guess, but that's another subject. A collector is somebody who buys for himself, somebody who buys because he enjoys it, with no further considerations about what he/she can get for it in the future. I include myself in this cathegory (collector/fan). Sure, everybody has wondered how much may cost that item you have, but not because you are going to sell it.
Of course (editing while I write, because I've seen Vader's response) a re-seller can be a fan. I do not question that, nor I judge anybody. But I think what lehsreh is referring to is those people abusing on prices. I mean, I would NEVER pay $20 for a Night-Viper! I don't think there is a single one out there at $8, but there surely are some at $12-$15, wich is a more sensible price.
BTW, I completely agree with your second paragraph.