Kilroy1988 

Well you're welcome to think what you want! I'm just glad I don't have to worry about moral questions regarding the value and use of tiny plastic, metal or cardboard objects. Bigger fish to fry in the world.

robertorolfo

Yeah, that's the topic at hand. Nobody is implying that this topic somehow supersedes others. Having said that, this topic also brings into question how we function as a society, and discussing economic morality is hardly trivial...

branko_76 

They won't easily be found on ebay

xiaoman1 

ZZZZZZZ's

Kilroy1988 

Most of this conversation has been centered on buyer-seller interactions, the idea of keeping/selling old things in packaging, and valuation. You've brought up morality in response to my posts but that's not an issue for me, nor does it seem to be for most responders here. I personally don't think moral dilemmas worth expending thought energy on extend to such trivial matters. I'm posting here because I'm bored and enjoy light back and forth conversations.

If you want to talk about morality I'd say the entire concept of spending money to collect old things for personal entertainment is amoral in a world where (at least) hundreds of millions of people go without basic necessities on a regular basis. But whatcha gonna do? I'm just along for the ride.

-Gregory

3alarmer 

...it took me three tries at marriage before I figured out you don't marry a woman just because she looks good in yoga pants. That's only a bonus feature.

tmh657 

Nothing against the OP in particular but some buyers do become a royal PITA and must be sent to Siberia bidding land. I have items for sale on ebay with all BIN prices, make offer. Buyer gives like a 40% offer of the asking price- denied. So he goes up a little- denied. Not even worth a counter offer. Then he starts asking questions. Bad vibe so on to Siberia blocking for him.

This could be like in Pulp Fiction. What's in the case Jules?

DeLoreanDMC81

As a seller on ebay, I would want to accommodate people the best I can. I would have taken a picture of it in the box.

That's just my personal opinion.

James

AlmostTrick

At first I didn't care, but now after 111 posts I wish somebody would open the box already.

robertorolfo

Nice try, but that's not gonna work. If the seller wants to keep it factory sealed prior to sale, that's fine. But all you, "keep it sealed forever and put the box on a shelf" people have issues. Talk around it all you want, but it not normal.

Kilroy1988 

I'm pretty sure people who spend time attempting to point out the flaws in others are generally the most prone to having unresolved issues. I also never said anything has to stay in a box forever, and already explained above how I was exaggerating/being sarcastic in my first reply to this thread. I could have a mint copy of Superman #1 and if I sell it to someone for the price I'm asking, they can use it for toilet paper for all I care.

You need to find some real problems to worry about. Again, it's little bits of old plastic, metal, and cardboard...

Kilroy1988 

And, by the way, that doesn't mean I don't believe there's room to leave some rare items sealed until there aren't enough left open to meet demand for actual use. I don't buy sealed vintage bicycle parts because there are already open ones I can get cheaper. But if I came into possession of a rare part in it's original packaging and could find another to use, I would be inclined to leave it packaged until I sold it as an investment. What the next person does with it really isn't my business.

If they wanted to use it I would probably recommend they find the open one for less money, which was the original point I tried to bring across with my tongue-in-cheek absolutist tone.

70sSanO

If someone here wins the auction, there can be a big fanfare reveal.

It would be a fitting if one of the levers were black and one silver.

There would be another 200 posts.

John

P!N20

The box is just a metaphor for the fragile repository of consciousness.

cudak888 

Well, now that you've started a thread not only of posterity, but of infamy, and certainly not short in discussion...

...maybe you could tell us which variant of the levers you're looking for? It might help you on your quest.

Also, Google.



Yes, it's difficult to see...but there's no other explanation for the naming convention. It means ftwelder's SS-5's are silver.

-Kurt

branko_76 

There are 3 days and 15 hours left in the auction, what do you say we all start bidding....ready?.....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/153935006219?

Kilroy1988 

I might have to buy them, open them up then burn them just to prove to some people that I don't have "unresolved issues," apparently.

branko_76 

....now that I say that, I wonder if the OP is actually.....ftwelder....????

Kilroy1988 

He'd better have a subscription!

cudak888 

I've got a pair of Traxxas bumpers that I've been trying to sell on eBay, Craigslist, and OfferUp for the last two years for all of $10...don't give me ideas.

-Kurt

P.S.: There are silver SS-5 levers in the box.

Piff 

I like the idea of keeping them in the box and making it into a trophy. Whoever rides the most miles each year wins it and signs their forum name onto the box. I wonder how long it will take for someone to take a sacrilegious peek

Or maybe the winner should be whoever has the greatest negative balance on ebay over the course of a year

Drillium Dude 

Wow; 5 ******' pages and still going strong

DD

verktyg 

GROAN!



verktyg

bark_eater 

Well what I got out of this thread is:

If I was going to do psychedelics and discuss Quantum Physics and Robert M. Pirsig's works, I would want to do it with Ai Weiwei.

cudak888 

What I got out of this thread is:

Why didn't Suntour come up with a less cryptic way of identifying these things in black, purple, and blue anyway?

-Kurt

P.S.: There are silver SS-5 levers in the box.