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Scalping Rule ☭ (midwest.social)
submitted 11 months ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

I feel like there has to be a half-life for scalping. If I buy a new-in-box item that has limited supply and immediately flip it, that’s definitely scalping. If I sit on it for 30yr and then flip it, is that really scalping? I dunno. I buy a lot of old mint board games to actually play them. I have to pay a huge markup. I don’t know that it’s necessarily right from a commerce perspective to expect someone who’s held onto something for 30yr and kept it in good shape to not get something extra for that time and work.