Re: PS3s.

[mattcanning]

Look at this, I go out of my way for a chance to help friends save hundreds of dollars and myself lose up to $2,000, just to get hit with a jab like this:

http://ryan-the-great.livejournal.com/78543.htmlJust as an update, I will be putting the PS3s on EBAY in about an hour. The market

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Sel-FISH friends

[anonymous]

It's bullshit that he is whining about not getting a PS3 at cost, you didn't go out of your way, spend the time, the effort, gas money, and other oppurtunity costs to go and buy these systems at cost to your buddies, you did it for the reason to sell them for profit. The store doesn't sell PS3's at Sony's cost, because they have to distribute it, pay the fees for having them shipped, employees to put the product out etc.....Matt has costs too, gas for driving around trying to find the PS3's, time spent trying to find them, and losing out on time that he could have been eating, watching tv, hanging out with friends, working on his website, etc....and you, you piece of shit, won't even compensate him for that by paying a lil bit extra? He wasn't even profit maximizing when he offered to sell it to you, eBayer's always look for the most profit they could make, and trust me, you would not get as good a price on eBay then buying from Matt, wait in line for your ps3, if you even come close to getting one next shipment...Your ticket analogy btw was dumb, you knew your friends were going to the same movie as you, that was just taking advantage of the situation, after all, you showed up together and either one of you could have been first in line....Matt on the other hand went to the stores planning to sell them on eBay, he was generous to ask his friends if they wanted them first. Good luck eBaying Matt.

Re: Sel-FISH friends

[mattcanning]

That pretty much hit it. I'm not trying to make a buck off my friends, I'm trying to curtail the huge loss I would be looking at by not going through with my original intentions.

Now anyone interested in the PS3s I have can go check out my online auctions and stand to pay an extra $500 on top of what I originally offered. I'm going back to my original intentions and making this all business. Ryan makes it sound like I'm withholding food and water from people here.

Last year I had someone who actually told me I should rent out my place at cost to my friends. I have no idea why I'm somehow obligated to be a charity to able bodied adults, throw away a planned revenue source which was paying for my house (I wouldn't have bought the house without having it), and in general, open myself up for abuse, but I suppose people who drink their faces off every weekend somehow think the working class is responsible for supporting them.

I think some people really need to go back to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper.

As for people saying this:

"Don't mix friends with business."

Allow me to correct the statement above by replacing it with this one:

"Don't mix selfish, self absorbed people with business."

At this point, a lot of the people I do business with online I consider to be friends. I think business and friendship goes perfectly well with them because we both give our 50%. I always give my end of the bargain. In 100% of cases, if something went wrong in a business transaction, it was me who was wronged, never the other way around. Never.

Just yesterday on 20/20, John Stossel was pestering Ted Turner and some other billionaires about why they don't give more of their money away, despite already giving billions away. He even went so far as to call them cheap. Newsflash, they've given away billions of dollars more than you ever have John! What nerve. How dare he make a comment like that? As if Ted Turner hasn't done enough by providing millions of people with services they enjoy and creating thousands of jobs. But nope, it's never enough. There seems to be this unwritten rule that those who work hard to earn what they have are required to always go out of their way to do things for people they don't even know. Of course, taking care of themselves goes over the heads of these kinds of people who expect charity. The number of people who receive charity versus the number who actually need it are two greatly different numbers.

Re: Sel-FISH friends

[halved_smile]

funny I thought of the ant and grasshopper here too

Re: Sel-FISH friends

[mattcanning]

I think it's the most appropriate fable here. They can keep drinking their faces off. Tomorrow I'll be $2,000 richer. They can keep making their decisions, and I'll keep making mine. I know mine benefit both myself and the people around me. Hopefully they can say the same, but I doubt it.