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RayB:
IT'S A TRAVESTY!!! Call the mayor! Rally the troops! We're going on a good old boycott-strike-demonstration-protest! It's time for us to gather and fight for the extra $2 we all deserve, dammit!!  :soapbox:

Seriously. Buying or selling anything is an agreement between the two parties. If you don't like the terms, then don't accept them. End of story. We buy things every day for $12 that some man, woman or child in China was only paid 0.05c an hour to make for us. Why not raise a stink over that inequity?

rhoelsch:
The travesty is that we're fostering a throwaway society. Make a sub-par piece of crap under the guise of new technology, who cares? The kids'll buy it anyway. Big business makes their bucks and we have a flood of high-priced crap in the market. I like my crap to be reasonably-priced. My conclusion being that the majority of consumers are fools, and the only way to get ahead is to have the capitol to be able to sell things to these fools. More power to those individuals. I don't count myself amongst those fools, but I am forced to live in a market that caters to them. I wouldn't have an issue with it if I had money coming out of ---my bottom---, but unfortunately, that's not the case.  :soapbox:  What's the failure rate on 360s, by the way? They're kewl, I'll buy 5...

shardian:
If you are desperate for a small amount of cash, then they are the hookup. A pawn shop wouldn't give you any better than them.

If you aren't in a hurry and want better prices, use the local trading journal, craigslist, or ebay. Even the workers at Gamestop will tell you that.

RayB:
But you are one of those fools. We all are. By purchasing NEW goods (such as PSP games instead of old used GameBoy games) we're inextricably part of the "throw-away" equation. To get out, you'd have to give up most non-essential consumption altogether.

shardian:

--- Quote from: rhoelsch on April 04, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The travesty is that we're fostering a throwaway society. Make a sub-par piece of crap under the guise of new technology, who cares? The kids'll buy it anyway. Big business makes their bucks and we have a flood of high-priced crap in the market. I like my crap to be reasonably-priced. My conclusion being that the majority of consumers are fools, and the only way to get ahead is to have the capitol to be able to sell things to these fools. More power to those individuals. I don't count myself amongst those fools, but I am forced to live in a market that caters to them. I wouldn't have an issue with it if I had money coming out of ---my bottom---, but unfortunately, that's not the case.  :soapbox:  What's the failure rate on 360s, by the way? They're kewl, I'll buy 5...

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Those fools are the people who drive our economy. Let the masses be fools - they just make life easier for the 'enlightened' crowd. ;D

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