Thank you Grenock for posting this. Im guilty of it but never looked at it that way. I mostly agree with Ben but have zero interest in ruffling any feathers around here.
What is your take on offering people extra $ after noticing they scored? Or posting a WTB well over cost? Is it frowned upon if I do it before the drop and if so how long until it is not frowned upon?
Thank you Sir
Hey Eric, first, it wasn't directed toward you either, I wasn't really thinking of anyone specific, but thought it was something we should air out collectively before it became an issue later on.
I certainly recognize the reasons and motives for doing so, both you and Ben should know I have little shame in my game. So. I understand why someone would want to either insure they get a proxy with an incentive or secured a better one by doing so. Game recognizes game. That said, I hope, and I think you both do, and anyone else, can understand what my reservations about the practice are and just take a moment to ponder the possible outcomes I described and whether or not they are valid, and if they are, if that's okay with you if it plays out any of those ways. That's all, I just wanted everyone to think about it before it became an even more common practice. If after that, the majority says it's cool, well, we'll charge on and see what happens.
Second, I don't make the rules around here about anything. I am confident in my last appointed position which was Head of Nothing. So, you rock on and do what you do, if some of us thinks it stinks, we'll tell ya', but you don't have to listen. If Nathan tells you it stinks, well, thats a different animal and that will work itself out pretty quickly at that point.
Since you asked, here is my take on your above scenarios. These are my opinions only, and as such, are worth half as much as the toilet paper you wiped your ass with last week, but you asked, so here goes.
Someone scores in a sale, and you PM them and offer $XXX over what they paid to send it your way after they get it? I don't see a problem with that.
Someone scores in a sale, and you reply in the sale thread that you will give them $XXX to give up their spot to you? This is bad form. It actually happened a year or two ago as I recall and was rebuffed by the members, and I think Nathan even weighed in on it with a less than positive opinion of that practice.
Posting a WTB well over cost? On an out of production or retired knife, of course, that's the game. On a knife that is still in production and has been available a while, eh, okay, it's your money, I'd still try and get one from the mothership first if it was me. For a knife that hasn't been released yet or is in very limited supply/high demand, I'd say it is a bad thing. In this case, it isn't really any different that offering to pay for a proxy, it may lead to someone who has no interest in the knife scoring one just make money off of you, the zero-responsibility distributor middle finger to Nathan again. Lastly, that guy who just scored for his own profit and didn't want the knife, just kept someone who really did from getting it, which is not something Nathan is into from my interpretations of his thoughts on similar subjects.
Just my thoughts since you asked. I am sure you and I could have a long conversation about collecting and what we both think is the right way and the wrong way to go about it. I am sure we share common ground on most things and probably differ on others, and that's cool too. Really, it would come down to neither of us is right nor wrong, we just each have our own way of doing things, well, that and one of us already has them all...............
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