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| alert- ebay member "orienblack" is selling thecoverproject covers for $15 a pop! |
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| Beastman1975:
dennis leary said it best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98k9I03FFA |
| Thaddeus Grey:
Great way to introduce yourself. :-\ Most of us who make covers do them as a favor or just as a way to preserve our games. For example, I use mostly Sega CD, Saturn, and PS1 covers from either ones that I made or from this site. Jewel cases suck hard. DVD cases are much better. Has ANYONE here charged for these? Didn't think so. Its really just modifying to fit our needs. Most of the ones I use are re-dos of the original artwork. Ditto on the proxies thought. Selling crap like orienblack did is dishonest, and in all honesty it's a flat out lie. Those aren't "super rare." They're hacks/translations that cost like $20 to make. Selling them at all for more than you paid is totally wrong. I could only see this being okay (the selling it thing) is if he was totally honest and set the price low. If not for the content then at least for the materials and labor, ya know? The original of that vid is better. ;D |
| cookiemonstyr:
so buying a console, or a game (doesn't have to be video games, a commodity) and selling it tripple or quadrople during the holiday's is illegal? the advantages of supply n demand. marketing concept. i don't think the people who made these hacked games gave permission either. it's not copywritten nor could it be. anywhere else here know the law or marketing here? |
| BadChad:
But this isnt about supply and demand. Its about all those bidders who can buy themselves a copy of that game right now for 60$ and the seller is simply taking advantage of the uneducated and telling them its a really rare game to make a profit. Thats still a form of scamming isnt it? Sounds like a pretty sheisty way of marketing if you ask me... |
| sheep2001:
I don't see it as a scam - an item is only worth what someone is willing to pay. are shops scamming us if we buy something and it goes on sale a week later, or if we find it cheaper online? a scam is when someone deliberately misleads someone into doing or buying something. anyone buying these games is a collector (or else they wouldn't be still into the NES/SNES scene) and therefore knows they are hacked carts as there was never a retail release in that format. If they are prepared to pay that for it, then it's worth it to them. |
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