Folks were selling them NIW for $400, maybe not on this site, but I saw plenty of Eastons that looked like a half-smoked cigarette going for $250, and they would go higher on the site not to be named. NIW a few years ago would fetch $280-300 on this board. All for a bat that was bought at a clearanced price or discount. Again, I wasn't stupid enough to pay that then, won't pay it now.
I got ripped a few years ago and called a D-bag for requesting that these SBF "brothers" throw me a new Flex for the clearance price they bought it for, or to give me $50 for the bat they were given by a rep or tourney. Even offered to pay shipping. After all, we're just brothers helping brothers try out bats, right?
I'm sure none of our hallowed board bros have purchased bats from the SBF store, put a few hits on them so that they're "minty" instead of NIW, and then sold them for $25-50 higher than what they paid for them, but still below the usual NIW price so they look like they're doing the peons a favor.
Case in point, I don't buy or sell that often, but when I put a bat up for sale, I've done my research, and I'm asking a fair market value price. When I drop it below market price, but still get high-faluting jackasses that want me to ship first or get me to cover the cost of shipping faster when the bat is already below market value, then want to say my low number of feedbacks with very established GTG members isn't good enough, that's when I start thinking people like that are what's ruining this board, not Carl and his Monsta cronies, or people who are not afraid to sell at market value or make a profit.
I got ripped a few years ago and called a D-bag for requesting that these SBF "brothers" throw me a new Flex for the clearance price they bought it for, or to give me $50 for the bat they were given by a rep or tourney. Even offered to pay shipping. After all, we're just brothers helping brothers try out bats, right?
I'm sure none of our hallowed board bros have purchased bats from the SBF store, put a few hits on them so that they're "minty" instead of NIW, and then sold them for $25-50 higher than what they paid for them, but still below the usual NIW price so they look like they're doing the peons a favor.
Case in point, I don't buy or sell that often, but when I put a bat up for sale, I've done my research, and I'm asking a fair market value price. When I drop it below market price, but still get high-faluting jackasses that want me to ship first or get me to cover the cost of shipping faster when the bat is already below market value, then want to say my low number of feedbacks with very established GTG members isn't good enough, that's when I start thinking people like that are what's ruining this board, not Carl and his Monsta cronies, or people who are not afraid to sell at market value or make a profit.