My Generous Neighbor, an INCREDIBLE find.

[Kevincal]

And I do admit I've gone overboard at times in this thread. I tend to freak out when people gang up on me... Especially when I feel it's unjustified. It probably would be a good thing if the thread was closed though... I don't need to get stressed out anymore over this shit!!!

[Kevincal]

But ok, one last question for you all... ;)

If you died, would you rather have the wife you loved get $1000 for your games;

Or would you rather give some neighbor kid your games for free?

;)

[aaron7]

But, AGAIN, this is some nice neighborly lady whos husband just died we are talking about here...


...who was perfectly happy with making someone else happy. This seriously will go on forever as you're stuck in some twisted loop with this.


But ok, one last question for you all... ;)

If you died, would you rather have the wife you loved get $1000 for your games;

Or would you rather give some neighbor kid your games for free?

;)

I wouldn't care. I'd be dead...

[The Shawn]

Well man, I don't think there was anything wrong with the way the OP obtained those games. And I hear you about the moral way's to go about things. I mean, I just had to tell a trader here that he sent me 1 to many crisp 20 dollar bills!

Let this slide brother...

[Kevincal]

I'll let it slide.

[Cornelius]

I want to know what is the exact cutoff between ripping someone off and meeting your (very fuzzy) morality, Kevincal? I say very fuzzy, because to me ripping someone off is independent of who that someone is. Morals aren't on a sliding scale for me. I do define ripping someone off very differently than you do, though, that at least is clear.


OR just like I said, give her a few hundred bucks and keep it all.


That's why she said "just take it" cus in her mind shes thinking it's only worth maybe a bit more than that, like $50-100.

Looks like about 30% is your definition, since the 1000 dollar mark has been bantered about by you as an easy number for this discussion. If the buyer did as he said, he offered around 5-10% (there were multiple loads of this stuff, and each one he offered 20 bucks).

And if it feels like you've been ganged up on in this thread, it is because you've been a total dick up until your past couple posts here, and this forum is cool like that when it comes to people being dicks.

[Kevincal]

Ya well, I see someone bragging about getting $1000 worth of games for nothing as "a dick" ... Even though in his original post he laid it out all nice like. He knew those games were worth $1000 and didn't tell the "NICE, NEIGHBORLY, HUSBAND JUST DIED" old lady who could probably use an extra $1,000... ;)

But I see that in his mind he think's he'll never sell the games. So he feels that justifies not telling the lady she gave him way more than she thinks... I don't agree obviously.

I agree I do have a problem with my directness and language which can make me "appear" to be an ass. I realize that offends people who don't realize that I'm REALLY NOT an ass. I have quite a temper at times and never sugar coat what I say or do.

[Kevincal]

Shouldn't he atleast give her $100!? Can't you all atleast agree with that!?! Put it in an envelope, stick it in her mailbox with a message like, "I really appreciate the games you gave me and have come to find out some of them are worth "good money" and I just want to give you this money as a token of my appreciation."

It would still be the deal of the century...

But I guess that would open a can of honesty worms and she'd surely be thinking, "I wonder exactly how much money those games are worth!?" :)

I still stick to my opinion that if she knew the value of the games, she would NOT have turned down his money offer...

[Kevincal]

And maybe I am a bit jealous because a stranger has never given me $1000

Knowingly OR unknowingly as in this case... heh

[PapaStu]

But ok, one last question for you all... ;)

If you died, would you rather have the wife you loved get $1000 for your games;

Or would you rather give some neighbor kid your games for free?

;)


...who was perfectly happy with making someone else happy. This seriously will go on forever as you're stuck in some twisted loop with this.



I wouldn't care. I'd be dead...

Exactly....

Besides, they wouldn't be mine to worry about, she wants em gone and neighbor kid gets em, then the kid gets em.


So giving her 100 bucks would work for you, but he tried to give her 20... MULTIPLE times (every wave of games x 4 so far) and she didn't want it. What else is he going to do, besides shove it in her hand, only to have her give it back.

I think the walking away from the thread as you previously mentioned would probably be in your blood pressures and Caps Lock's best interest.

[FxMercenary]

Dude Kevincal CHILL. They were a gift, Garage sale leftovers. You are missing he point here totally. IM NOT SELLING THEM. You know what games are worth to me? PLAYABILITY. I PLAY THEM.

It was on the news ttoday some guy offered $10,000.00 for a restaurant napkin doodle Sarah Palin did. You know what its worth? TOILET PAPER.

She had a garage sale to MAKE ROOM, not because shes poor. Ive had garage sales too.

2 Years ago before i got into retro gaming I sole my cousin my SNES stuff. In it was chrono trigger and like 20 other games, he gave me 50 bucks. Im not mad, why should I be? He still has them and plays them.

What your problem is, is that you think im some kind of lowlife scumbag that is mugging old ladies in alley ways. You are NUTS!

I help her out sometimes, bought some games she was throwing out ( sunday at 2pm, when they were on their way to the curb ) Mentioned I love playing old games, and she kept an eye out for more as she cleaned out her garage for the remodeling.

Whats the big deal? I helped her out, and she gave me some old nintendo games. Theres no ill intent, im not greedy, and neither is she.

So just drop it already, you sound like one of hose crazy people who when asked for directions at a gas station, screams and maces people in fear of some kind of ill intent.

DROP IT.

[FxMercenary]

And maybe I am a bit jealous because a stranger has never given me $1000

Knowingly OR unknowingly as in this case... heh

and i dont have a thousand dollars, i have some video games to play. Quit puting a monetary value on everything!

Jesus christ, how much does it cost to be nice these days?

[FxMercenary]

what bothers me is that they sat here for 2 days and nobody bought them. I wonder how many awesome games in this town have been thrown in a dumpster?

[evil_genius]

So why is it alright to pay $1 for Stadium Events if it comes from a flea market reseller but not alright to buy it from someone at a garage sale. The reseller could very well have it just as hard in life, if not worse, than the person with the garage sale. What if the person with the garage sale owns a used clothing store, are they a scumbag? I'm done now, no hard feelings I hope. Mercenary seems like a nice person I'm sure he'll do more kind deeds for his neighbor. Either that or he is a complete asshole and making this whole story up to get his sick little jollies off.

[Kevincal]

I'm still curious what the old lady would think if she knew that stuff was worth $1000 LOL. ;)

She would say something like "goodness gracious me! Back in the 1930's, that's what people made working for a whole year!"

:P

I admit I was overly critical of you Mr. Mercenary. As well as others in this thread. I was having a bad day yesterday... Also nothing good ever happens to me even though I'm one of the most moral people I know. (except for being a raving asshole in this thread ;)) So I guess... I'm frustrated. Life has not been fair to me for a long time now. It's getting to me...

[skaar]

I think an apology wouldn't be unreasonable from a few people in this thread - way to jump all over the guy for sharing a cool story!

[FxMercenary]

no hard feeling =) communicating thru text is always open to emotional misunderstanding.

[Mayhem]

Nice to see people are "playing nice" again here... otherwise I would have been forced to lock this one up.

Seriously though, what was the guy supposed to do? He offered money, it was turned down. Scoring a serious bundle of good games cheaply is the dream of most of us I imagine. Does it really matter on the source as much as that, to differentiate between random flea market seller or the next door neighbour?

Maybe if some of the games are sold you could consider trying to donate some of the proceeds to charity or something...? At least she doesn't know to refuse the money and the profit got put to some good use...

[Sosage]

EDIT: I didn't read the rest of the thread and just realized I am fanning the flames at this point. Sorry. I will keep this line though:

...pics or it didn't happen. ;)

[Superman]

EDIT: I didn't read the rest of the thread and just realized I am fanning the flames at this point. Sorry. I will keep this line though:

...pics or it didn't happen. ;)

If you are asking for a picture it is on page 2.

[cityside75]

Also nothing good ever happens to me even though I'm one of the most moral people I know. (except for being a raving asshole in this thread ;)) So I guess... I'm frustrated. Life has not been fair to me for a long time now. It's getting to me...

Kevincal, I think you've identified the problem right there. It's clear that you view yourself as "more moral" than most other people, and apparently that manifests itself in you imposing your morals on other people. You mentioned that you have a bad temper at times so I assume that you may be guilty of this behavior off the internets as well.

It appears to me you spend so much time and effort measuring up your morals to the perceived lack of morals of everyone else that you come off looking judgemental and too black and white in your thinking. The way that you paint all neighbors as good, and all resellers as bad, or all garage salers as poor and struggling indicates this. In turn, that behavior will turn off many people, which makes it less likely that good things like this will happen to you. So, if I may, I'd suggest not worrying so much about the perceived morality of everyone else's actions, focus on doing the right things according to your own moral compass, and good things will come to you.

Just my $.02, take it for what it's worth.

[eskobar]

I do not think that moral has anything to do with this, MONEY is the subject.

This situation is very simple :

A woman gave a few games to Mr. FxMercenary and Kevincal got angry

The original owner surely enjoyed those games on life and the amount he paid for those was worth the time he spent playing them.

The woman gave those games as goodwill or just a gift to someone that she knows will appreciate those pieces of plastic and silicon ... the problem is non existant, Kevincal just got angry for no particular reason and started to question ANY good deal that has ever happened.

If you see everything in the world as money ... well, enjoy; but live and let live.

[Kevincal]

Money is earned (or SHOULD be) through blood, sweat & tears ASSHOLE... You sit there and talk as if money means nothing in this world. Well I guess you are either fuckin rich or living in a dream world because where I come from, things of value and money are essential to LIFE and are earned through hard work.

Our fucked up world revolves around money. Even though you and him and others falsely believe that because "he's not selling the stuff" that that somehow equates to it being "ok" to just take the stuff. Well hell! If that's the fuckin case, why dont I just got grab everything I want for free. It's ok since I wont be selling it!!! PFFT....

Don't sit there and talk like you think you actually know what you are talking about, cus you really don't.

And I love your ridiculously false statement trying to make your argument somehow seem feasible..

"A woman gave a "FEW" games to Mr. FxMercenary and Kevincal got angry"

It's more like

A woman gave THIRTY + GAMES AND MORE SHIT to Mr. Fx THAT WERE WORTH $1000 and Kevincal got angry BECAUSE mister mercenary took advantage of the situation. BIG TIME.

[aaron7]

Money is earned (or SHOULD be) through blood, sweat & tears

lol, yah, people who can't figure out how to make money other ways still live by this I suppose.

Seriously... forum vs kevincal. Give it up!

[otoko]

O_O... How is this thread not locked yet?

[Kevincal]

You're right, that's why everything is so fucked up because most everyone thinks like you. Figure out how to do the least work for the most money. Can't you people understand why that's not right? It's not how things should be. They are, but they shouldn't.

[Kevincal]

O_O... How is this thread not locked yet?

Because I started to play nice, but my the fire up my ass has been lit again by stupid comments from people trying to belittle me. ;)

So it probably will get locked if anyone else makes stupid comments towards me cus I'm in a pretty pissy mood.

[Kevincal]

Kevincal, I think you've identified the problem right there. It's clear that you view yourself as "more moral" than most other people, and apparently that manifests itself in you imposing your morals on other people. You mentioned that you have a bad temper at times so I assume that you may be guilty of this behavior off the internets as well.

It appears to me you spend so much time and effort measuring up your morals to the perceived lack of morals of everyone else that you come off looking judgemental and too black and white in your thinking. The way that you paint all neighbors as good, and all resellers as bad, or all garage salers as poor and struggling indicates this. In turn, that behavior will turn off many people, which makes it less likely that good things like this will happen to you. So, if I may, I'd suggest not worrying so much about the perceived morality of everyone else's actions, focus on doing the right things according to your own moral compass, and good things will come to you.

Just my $.02, take it for what it's worth.

You're wrong in your assumptions that I think in black in white. I figured there's a hell of a good chance some old lady neighbor who gave someone a bunch of games is NICE. And you know I'm right about most resellers. MOST of them do try to rip people off so they can turn around and make as much profit as possible. That's the game. And I could care less if I turn people off. I'm not fake. I speak my mind. Most people can't handle the truth these days. Everyone likes to ignore problems and act like everything is cool. Just go drink some fuckin beer and watch football and get fat and dumb. And rip off old lady neighbors cus all the other big corporations and any business in between is doing it these days. It freaking amazes me how dishonest the world is becoming.

[darkslime]

Is it wrong to buy clearance items and resell them?

Is that morally wrong.

I bet you're going to say its not because a corporation is different than an old lady, but they really aren't. The owners of that corporation are also people, and worked to make their business a huge chain. They probably didn't start rich, and WORKED FOR THEIR MONEY.

[evil_genius]

This is an epic battle

[Kevincal]

No it's not because you are buying clearance items from big corporation assholes. ;) SCrew them over as much as possible because they have been screwing people over with shitty, overpriced products since their inception.

But if a nice old lady neighbor offers you a "clearance" DONT TAKE ADVANTAGE of her! :P

You must be psychic.

And do you REALLY think the owners of that big corporation got HUGE through honest sales tactics? FUCK NO... They outsource their work to china and have poor desparate chinese people make their shit for $.50 an hour. Meanwhile jobs are lost in the US. WALMART............... shit like that.

The only way for businesses to expand into coporations is through nothing more than sheer greed, and any other bad word you can think of.

Mcdonalds. TRASH ASS food sold for too much money. They hire the poorest, dumbest workers they can find and give them shit wages just like wal fuck.

But that's the way of the world now. It's a cut throat world. And the reason it's like that is because the assholes running the world are doing a piss poor job. Everything else from the top is a trickle down effect of their tactics. Everyone now wants to be rich, no matter the cost.

[The 1 2 P]

O_O... How is this thread not locked yet?

Actually, I was wondering why kevincal hasn't been suspended yet. Especially when he's made 4 pages of dumb ass remarks like this.....


It's scary to think so many of you feel perfectly comfortable knowing you're a bunch of scumbag scam artists who have no problem taking advantage of ignorant people

Whats worse is that there have been two mods in here so far who obviously noticed the way he's been acting toward the other members(and completing thread crapping all over the place) and let him off without even given him a warning:shameful:

[darkhades]

Hey! This thread looks like fun!



Whoops......
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[eskobar]

A woman gave THIRTY + GAMES AND MORE SHIT to Mr. Fx THAT WERE WORTH $1000 and Kevincal got angry BECAUSE mister mercenary took advantage of the situation. BIG TIME.

Seriously, was it necessary to call me "asshole" ?? :shameful:


The numbers are only on your head, nowhere else. Money is important, i did not question that, but your vision is narrowed by dollars. I obviously work and everyday i do my best, always happy and helpful to my customers. I have an office job now but i had heavy physical job a few years ago and believe me, i know the value of money.

If you wanna see a guy ripping off an old lady, then you got it.

But if you want to, you can see an old lady giving away few games to one lucky guy. That lady made his day (or maybe his year, hehehe).

This guy will surely want to do the same for another kid and make someone as happy as he was.

Congratulations, FxMercenary, you got one hell of a gift :D

[Sosage]

why dont I just got grab everything I want for free. It's ok since I wont be selling it!!! PFFT....

Sounds good to me...if the stuff you're grabbing was offered to you for free.

The lady offered him the games for a quarter, he paid a quarter. They were her games to sell, she valued them at that price. The value is set within the context of the deal, not the outside world. Your logic is broken and your heavy handed manner of slamming it into other people's faces is not fixing it.

Here's some gasoline for the fire: Deal envy then?

BWARGHSNARGLLEROAR!

[evil_genius]

If that were me speaking my mind I would have a mod posting a warning under my user name and people calling out to ban me.

[otoko]

The thing that bothers me is the fact that he mutiposts every time.

[otoko]

every time.

[otoko]

Sure each one has different information, but one could easily include it in one original post and wait for others to maybe talk..

I dunno.. I used to get a beat down for such a thing. (If you could not tell I'm not paying attention to the fight anymore beyond a source trying to eliminate my boredom.)

[cyberfluxor]

Since the thread is going downhill and realised I didn't reply in here earlier when I was reading yesterday, congrats on the haul FxMercenary. I doubted your EB find from awhile ago but it appears to be legit, for the most part. It's rare to have such an event happen so enjoy those games however you want.

As for the others, cool off. Fuel on the fire doesn't help and there are threads burried deep the boards regarding ethics and pricing schemes.

[PapaStu]

Let this slide brother...


I'll let it slide.


Ya couldn't even take your own advice. Unfortunately this find thread has run its course, others have continued on with the steady drumming themselves and thusly we get...

**lockerooni**