I am not sure what point you are making. There seems to be an odd reaction/obsession to someone who has made a homemade ASL kit, and puts it together at home once in a while and sells to anyone who wants it? It's not extortion, as you stated.
I stated it was extortion? That's incorrect. In fact, I congratulated the seller just a few posts further up.
This is not making anyone rich.
Quite. Even MMP is not getting rich.
If so there would more people doing it!! A few houndred dollars at 8 hours to put together, not to mention design time doesn't sound like the weekend job I've been waiting for?!?! The people buying are not necessarily "fools" as you stated, just people with excess money to spend on ASL esoteria.
I don't know another word for anyone who pays 300 dollars for something they could get for 50 with a little patience or even a simple email.
From what we know these will be collectibles very soon, since it doesn't seem the putting them together mechanics will facilitate hundreds of copies. Personally I would love to have a copy and I hope a few more are made and are auctioned when I have a couple hundred dollars to spend on ASLoteria.
Doesn't the fact that only a handful may be available in total indicate the relative value of this product? I mean think about it - if this was the sliced bread of ASL variants, wouldn't a bonafide publisher be the one cranking these out with more regularity? I'm not going to pass judgment without having seen them, but the fear of not having one is not only hurting you but pretty much driving up the price for anyone else who wants one at a reasonable price. Honestly, people are such sheep.
And it isn't this product that drives my comments, it's what I've seen done to other collecting communities where prices are now through the roof and likely to stay that way, and have been put that way mostly by uninformed dilettantes who refuse to do a little homework and just bid, bid, bid because they have deep pockets and thought nothing of paying twice or four times the expected market rate of non-rare stuff, so often, that it became the standard price when the next item went up for bids. Eventually all the prices became inflated for everyone, and stayed that way.
Maybe Billy is right and we really
do need to see Mark lambaste this product on his website; people are buying it without knowing a single thing about it other than the names of the scenarios, the name of the developer, and what the counters look like. Of course, that wouldn't stop those who don't know about his sight anyway, or stop the rabid collectors. After all, some dude paid 30 dollars to me on ebay for Portal's HIP notes for an ASL scenario we played once.
Was that guy a fool too?
WBRP, you still have my HIP notes?
