Looking for a non-yellow working NTSC A1200, paying $150

[justthatgood]

First an word of opinion to a lot of eBay haters.

Screw you!!!!

That's call the power of free market. People pay what they feel is important. People sell that stuff for what people are willing to pay. I guess you can offer whatever you want for hardware. That is your right. If you want to be a cheapskate, that is your right too. If you put your stuff out in a public forum, it is also someone elses right to tell you off.

As for "trolling", it's usually reserved for inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic type of  statements that are usually aimed at pissing people off IE: Yahoo's now disabled News Discussions. It's doesn't really work unless you are weak and take the 'bait'.  Trust  me if you want to see trolling, I could show you REAL trolling.

I guess I'm one of those GREEDY ebayers. God forbid I want to make a little money to actually live. Charity is sweet, but it doesn't help you eat. Sorry but I live in the world of reality sometimes. The world revolves around money. To get power you need money. Very few people listen to a poor man. True I might not have liked selling some stuff to Boogiegail of all people, but at least I eventually got my money to be able to get food to eat.

Sure it's nice to get deals. I respect that. If you want to be a skinflin be that way. But I also respect peoples right to make money, no matter how "dirty" it might be to some people. I also respect peoples decision to by what ever the hell they want.  

[justthatgood]

@gdanko

I'm going to try to be nice about this, so I'm going to just say this. Not every state in the country has the same job market. As I can see you live in Sunny California. I don't personally know the job there so I can't comment on it.

But I do know the job market here. Before you even get around to saying something cliche like "if there are no jobs, then move", many people have legitimate reasons they have to stay in the place they are.

Lets see. We have very high state taxes, 6% sales tax (not really that bad). Most of our government officials don't know how to spend money so you get screwed out of taxes to pay for many of their mistakes. You really can't own a house with more value then $75,000 (cheap bungalow style) or in some counties you might get screwed by property taxes.

As for the jobs. A majority of them in the city are crappy retail jobs (if you are very lucky you might get paid $7.00 and hour) with no opportunity for making overtime. The average that can get a job will make about $6.15 an hour and will only be allowed to work about 28 hours a week. Most have to try to scramble to get a second job to make up (average about $400) rent. Most of the other jobs will not work around your other jobs schedule so you will be looking for a longer time.

Most of the "high-tech" or fast paced careers left most the area because they weren't able to keep good executives happy and occupied while there here. Get get anything over $8.00, you will have to try your luck at getting a factory job traveling at least 56 miles a day. Most of those jobs are taking by people that have seniority of at least 10 years, and they aren't going to give up their 'easy money' without a fight.

Frankly most places could careless if you get paid much, or if you have a place to live, because they would just tell you to try to get welfare and section 8 housing. For you information, I have a job. One that I work too damn hard at, for so little pay. So eBay isn't perfect. Hell, I wish I would have had the idea for eBay back in the day, maybe I would have been rich.

You can't even compare San Diego with most parts of Indiana. It's like comparing apples with cantaloupe. Two totally different job markets. Two totally different cultures. Two totally different economies.

[justthatgood]

I know that the Atari XEGS would hurt people badly (yeah I know it's the product of a Jack T. failure.)

[justthatgood]

It's that way because of the supply and demand. So many people came there to have the glitzy Silicon Valley jobs during the Internet Boom it blew up the real estate market.

Well our taxes are going to get there I'm sure. We our state, counties, cities collect our taxes and we usually don't get much out of them.

As for the mileage, what I said was what i had to drive. I was lucky (until I lost the job), some people actually get up at 12am to drive to Indianapolis (126 miles on e way!!!) to be able to make a decent wage.

As for the gas, it hasn't gotten much out of control, but there is a lot of price gouging going on around here. It hurts especially since most of the jobs you need to get to you have to drive to. As for our public transportation , it's not really as flexible as in most metro areas. I guess I can't complain because there is more then 80% of the state that don't even have public transportation.

As for the real estate prices, it's all about what you get with it. Very few people want to come to a state where all they will see is hicks driving pickup trucks and corn. Seriously, what is there to see in the state? The educational system sucks. It's basically run like some {bleep}ized closed society church in a way. It's been a Right To Work state and then it hasn't. It can't make up it's mind. Basically it crap at times.

Then there is the weather. It can be 60 degrees and sunny one day, then 40 degrees with rain for 4 days. It's that damn Humid continental climate we have.