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Message: [QUOTE="Waffles, post: 8779, member: 703"] Because I was way too young at the time I started getting into retro collecting (barely a teen at the beginning), I didn't really have many resources to grow a collection. Thrift store finds and "donations" from friends (who just wanted to clear out inventory from their already crammed rooms and saw no use in holding on to their childhood consoles) was my main source of retro junk. However, at one point I really wanted to expand on that and began dwelling into the extraordinarily shady world of board-based marketplaces. The "horror story" I'm about to share happened about 99% due to me being a gullible teenager who really didn't know what they were doing, but it still bothers me nonetheless. I had just posted my beloved console on an auction site (I needed the money to fuel another obsession) and I had also posted links to the sale on a forum I was a regular of at the time... well, someone contacted me on that forum (on behalf of another person) and started talking to me about how much better of an offer they could make if I just cancelled the auction. I saw no problem with that (since I somewhat trusted the person acting as in-betweener) and accepted. This person... was nuts. They complained endlessly about the stupidest junk, they keep bringing on things that had already been agreed upon a million times before, and they kept going at it even after the point of sale. One night I found myself being dragged to a group chat on MSN Messenger where him, the person who had contacted me on that forum and half-a-dozen of others started verbally abusing me over something that had been talked about endlessly and I thought had been made clear. NOW, I should mention that I messed up, too. I'm not a 100% innocent. I failed to pack the thing properly and I think one of the accompanying carts got damaged as a result. That, I'm owning up to. But this guy was three decades my senior at the time and acted like I had just killed his dog or something. It was really quite jarring. It, thankfully, didn't go further than that (not when I could block the lot and leave that forum, which I guess was a good advantage of those days), but it made me so bitter than I never went back to selling anything outside of a few selected sites. What about you? Any stories to share? [/QUOTE]

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