14 Oct
1999
14 Oct
'99
4:31 a.m.
I wrote:
I didn't think that I implied that you implied that enthusiasts don't
hang out there. At least re-reading my paragraph doesn't seem to
say that, to me anyway (then again it wouldn't since I wrote it ;)
<rant>
That's because eBay is where "collectors" hang out. Not people like
us, for whom collector is an insufficient/inaccurate term.
"George Currie" <g(a)kurico.com>
Whereas I agree that there is a differentiation
between the
"collector" and the "enthusiast", I must take umbrage to the ,again,
generalization of the person who pays "too much" on ebay
automatically being "collector assholes, just because he had deep
pockets".
I don't believe I said anything of the sort. I said that "collectors"
hang out on eBay, but I never said that enthusiasts don't. Are you
implying that one must be of modest means to be an
"enthusiast".
No, I didn't. I've seen enthusiasts pay enormous amounts of money for
certain items. I've done it myself. What I object to is having to do
it because some non-enthusiast asshole has more dollars than sense.
More about this later. Would you let
it go to a "collector asshole"
because you thought the asking price was too high?
Yes, if the "asking price" was "too high". "Too high" is
a
subjective measure. I never buy ANYTHING that I think is priced
"too high". Of course, tommorow's value of "too high" may be
different from today's. I fully
understand the frustration, but venting it by making
generalizations of those who happen to be better financially
equipped than you, or are just willing to pay more for something
than you, is just immature.
If complaining about life's injustices is immature, then I'm
immature. But then, so's most everyone else I know.
In fact, aren't you complaining about me based on some generalization
you've made regarding me? Sounds immature to me. :-)