Super Nintendo Classic from the Amazon Treasure Truck
9I got one today.
It hit a lot of the same buttons as my visits to Meh.com… They even have spiffy bags.
Maybe Meh should consider getting a beat up winnebago, parking it in a shitty suburb, and selling fukos out of it…
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Wait, I saw it in the Seaport area of Boston. Is there more than one? It certainly isn’t a suburb.
They don’t come here.
Maybe that’s how they will take over the world, with an uncountable number of Treasure Trucks.
“Hey kid…wanna fuko?” Just doesn’t sound like they’d make it through the day without getting arrested
Yeah, drove all the way to Richardson for mine. My plan is to sell for profit. But, that was also my plan when I got the regular NES Classic from the last Treasure Truck. Now I have both unopened consoles sitting in my wife’s way.
@phatmass beware that the NES Classic is going to be sold again in Summer 2018 so if you want to profit you need to get on that.
@jbartus Do you have a source for that claim? Not that I don’t believe you, so please don’t take offense. Just looking for a source.
@GLaDOS Nintendo good enough?
http://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/
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@jbartus I don’t like the word “profit” because it implies I’m trying to rip someone off. If I sell on eBay for about $160, I’d be making about $75. Considering I drove a combined hour and 1/2 to get it, and also about 1/2 hour for listing/mailing it, minus shipping… I’d say it works out to me making about $35/hr.
@phatmass Money earned above real costs is profit. You could argue the gas cost as an expense but anything over and above that and the MSRP you paid (plus tax if applicable) is profit. Your time isn’t an expense because you’re directly taking in the money, whatever you take in above your real expenses is profit.
That said, selling an item at/near twice MSRP because of artificially inflated supply and demand (at this point the price is relatively stabilized at a point above what real demand dictates) is exploiting the market, just because ‘everyone else’ is doing it and it makes good business sense to get while the getting is good doesn’t change that.
Not judging, just calling a spade a spade.
@jbartus so, if a person wants one, but isn’t willing to stand in line or drive 2 hrs to get one, then they should expect the person who DID do that to sell it to them for what it costs them? Seems unfair. If I choose to sell it at higher than retail, I think the effort I put forth in acquiring it should be worth something.
@jbartus Cool, thanks!
@phatmass it’s still profit. You’re acting like that’s some kind of dirty word. O.o
@jbartus fine, now I feel guilty. I’ll just keep it.
@phatmass why is profit a dirty word? You go to work every day (I assume) and make a profit.
@phatmass why feel guilty? You have something that someone else wants to pay for. It’s not like you’re gouging for bottled water in a hurricane. It’s two consenting humans coming to an agreement on exchanging a good for an amount of currency. They’re free not to buy it.
Some bought them to play, some bought them because they knew they would be more valuable to others. Nothing wrong with that. Better to sell it while the getting is good.
I hope you get $300 for it somehow.
@jbartus @phatmass the way I see it there are 2 types of customers that purchase from the secondary market: people who have the resources to purchase it at retail, but consider the added cost to be worth their lack of effort. And people without the appropriate resources (time, money) to purchase it at retail while it’s available, but have an obligation to acquire it.
The secondary market is defensible as a service to the first and reprehensible as taking advantage of the the second. Exceptionally high prices mostly price out the second group, so you’re probably not going to end up screwing anyone over financially. As long as you can live with the existential torture of knowing that you participate in a system that prevents disadvantaged kids from getting proper Christmas presents, or whatever, feel free to profit off of the secondary market.
Capitalism is stupid, but without it we wouldn’t have Meh, so…
I got mine from the Boston Treasure Truck @bdb mentioned. It was cool though finding the damn thing while in my car was nearly impossible. Ended up parking a couple of blocks away and wandering around til I found it.
My understanding is that Amazon has patented some part of the concept, I’m not sure what part exactly. Design patent on the truck maybe?
@jbartus weird, the Portland truck was right in downtown, super easy to find. They probably paid about $1000 to take up a corner of a parking lot all day on a Friday. They had way too much space though, no one was sticking around. It was all business when I got there shortly after 5pm.
@jbartus
I do not love Amazon patents.
And they stuck the damned treasure truck in Richardson.
Ain’t got no time fo’ dat.
@Oneroundrobb it was obvious once I located it but its placement was in such a place that GPS instructions, local construction insanity, and surrounding institutions and such caused it to be invisible from the direction of natural travel into the area it was situated in. If I’d been passing by the location I would have seen it.
I had no idea that @snapster released the rights to sell BOC’s off the back of a truck at the flea market when woot! became wootAzon.
Fuck. I saw the text too late to get one.
Or maybe in remote locations where this shit doesn’t happen and see how much brand loyalty they get??
(try Vermont. Let me know in advance, hell its not that far of a drive for @thumperchick, give her something fun to do that’s different)
@sohmageek Don’t forget those of us up to our necks in chicken shit on the Eastern Shore.
@mfladd
Where’s the bear shit?
I was going to wake myself up on Friday morning at 3am (EST) to try to get one on Thinkgeek, but then thought better of it. A good night’s rest is more valuable to me than the $200 profit I would have made on it, IF I was lucky enough to get on.
Then I woke up for no reason at 4:13am. FML.
@ACraigL I got one at 7:31 AM EST From Thinkgeek on Friday… I plan on keeping it. I wouldn’t want to be a dirty scalper… I actually watched something that broke my heart with the switches when they were so hard to find. I saw a kid probably 5 or so in Toys’r’us with their grandmother. He saw the display box (not the actual box but the ad display box) took it over to her and showed her. He was jumping up and down yea yea! When she said he could have it. Only to be told that they didn’t have any in stock it was just an ad. The poor kid, just hung his head and I could tell he was crying, but not causing a scene. Broke my damn heart. At that point I wish I had not opened mine a few days prior…
@ACraigL got a text from Amazon at 8am while I was getting ready for work and bought it right away. Picked it up a little after 5pm; they still had a ton of them staged for pickup (the truck was there till 8pm) I didn’t even realize it was launch day. I was still waiting for an email from Amazon about pre-orders… :-\