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Tired of Tactacam Scalpers

Amarty734 said:
@kyler1945 These scalpers are just being opportunistic and hurting a specific target community for their own gain, they didn't do any of the work to make the cameras but they sure are willing to make money on them. I could have scalped them too but I chose not too because I wanted the next guy to have the same opportunity to have the cameras at the same price I got them. I don't want to make money off something I do not put my own pride in.
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No, you didn't "scalp" them because you have a cushy job as an engineer (highly educated no doubt) and you don't understand what it's like to live a lower standard of living life. You're intolerant of those with lower IQ and income potential because you've never been there.

This is a pretty good country. If you aren't blessed with superior IQ, you can still feed your family in other ways, including "scrapping" or camping out at Cabelas or Walmrt to "scalp" gear at a low price in order to sell it at a higher price. It's not a super-respectible way to make a living, but it's better than food stamps.

Again, this is a pretty good country. But you have to be tolerant of some folks making a living in ways you find objectionable, right? How else would your trash get picked up or your ditches get dug?
 
Great thread! I'm tired of selling stuff cheaper than I paid and this thread is prodding me to sell a super package with a like new Madrock Safeguard, 35ft Oplux rope, and a pristine Tactacam Reveal package for a super special, low price of $600 shipped! I could even include GPS coordinates for a guaranteed kill on NC gamelands for that price. Maybe I'm joking, or maybe there will be a new classified listing shortly....
 
cornpile said:
No, you didn't "scalp" them because you have a cushy job as an engineer (highly educated no doubt) and you don't understand what it's like to live a lower standard of living life. You're intolerant of those with lower IQ and income potential because you've never been there.

This is a pretty good country. If you aren't blessed with superior IQ, you can still feed your family in other ways, including "scrapping" or camping out at Cabelas or Walmrt to "scalp" gear at a low price in order to sell it at a higher price. It's not a super-respectible way to make a living, but it's better than food stamps.

Again, this is a pretty good country. But you have to be tolerant of some folks making a living in ways you find objectionable, right? How else would your trash get picked up or your ditches get dug?
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This isn't a class thing. Plenty of folks who don't earn top dollar but work hard for their income have value sets that go against this nonsense. And often it's folks with means taking advantage of ripe conditions to make more. Sometimes it's high schoolers...all sorts.

Just because someone is against this practice doesn't make them haughty.

You either accept/support arbitrage, or not. You either reject those sales or you're supporting it. If it ever effects real essentials, I doubt many will wave the "yeah for capitalism" flag so happily.
 
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Whether it’s cams, ammo, atvs, whatever- they’re just the same shady people they’ve always been but justifying there actions. If it wasn’t this hustle it would be another. The turbid state of our country is directly attributed to the actions of such fine folks
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the exact same thing that Bass Pro/Cabelas, D*ck's, Wally World and the rest of the retailers out there do to us every day? They buy stuff at one price point and then sell to every one else at a higher price point.
 
DroptineKrazy said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the exact same thing that Bass Pro/Cabelas, D*ck's, Wally World and the rest of the retailers out there do to us every day? They buy stuff at one price point and then sell to every one else at a higher price point.
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I think what you are describing is the flow of goods and services from wholesale market to retail market.

Arbitrage is when an ‘actor’ finds an inefficient market and exploits that inefficiency by simultaneously buying and selling (and making a profit from that) within that market. In the case of tactacam, it is the retail market. People buy at retail, then resell at retail.

Arbitrage has been around for ages. It is nothing new. It will always exist as long as there are inefficient markets and people/ organizations desiring to capitalize on that inefficiency.

In this case, if tactacam raised prices to what people were willing to pay the people who bought /hoarded the tactacams, the market would be efficient and there would be no profit motive / no arbitrage opportunity. If tactacam priced that way, people would complain their prices are too high. But the existence of the arbitrage opportunity disagrees with that.

The rich do it, the poor do it, the educated do it, the uneducated do it, it is done on Wall Street and in currency exchanges, it is done by people buying products at retail and reselling them, it is done by technicians exploiting technology. It will not go away.

I am not defending arbitrage at all. Just describing it.
 
cornpile said:
No, you didn't "scalp" them because you have a cushy job as an engineer (highly educated no doubt) and you don't understand what it's like to live a lower standard of living life. You're intolerant of those with lower IQ and income potential because you've never been there.

This is a pretty good country. If you aren't blessed with superior IQ, you can still feed your family in other ways, including "scrapping" or camping out at Cabelas or Walmrt to "scalp" gear at a low price in order to sell it at a higher price. It's not a super-respectible way to make a living, but it's better than food stamps.

Again, this is a pretty good country. But you have to be tolerant of some folks making a living in ways you find objectionable, right? How else would your trash get picked up or your ditches get dug?
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They must have money to be buying up large sums of $100+ cameras to begin with. Anything is obtainable, I know guys that are not that intelligent that use what they do know to make a buck and still live a good life. Most "food stamp" sorts per your post choose to mooch off of fed and state funds out of laziness not low IQ. Most people don't want to earn an honest days pay and work hard for their things so they choose the easy way out.
 
I mean I think we can all agree it's more honest money than, like, stealing from senior citizens, right? How much more honorable, ehhh, I guess that's in the eye of the beholder? Lawyers get paid pretty good money too and don't seem to care too much what other people think of it.
 
It’s just as sleazy as lawyers in my book! Not real comparable to scrappers or blue collared works though...them boys are earning it
 
cornpile said:
No, you didn't "scalp" them because you have a cushy job as an engineer (highly educated no doubt) and you don't understand what it's like to live a lower standard of living life. You're intolerant of those with lower IQ and income potential because you've never been there.

This is a pretty good country. If you aren't blessed with superior IQ, you can still feed your family in other ways, including "scrapping" or camping out at Cabelas or Walmrt to "scalp" gear at a low price in order to sell it at a higher price. It's not a super-respectible way to make a living, but it's better than food stamps.

Again, this is a pretty good country. But you have to be tolerant of some folks making a living in ways you find objectionable, right? How else would your trash get picked up or your ditches get dug?
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You are correct in that I have been very privileged to have had the opportunity to a college degree and a good job. However, I am not where I am today because it was given to me. My father was one of 18 brothers and sisters born into a migrant worker family who worked non-stop from the age of 8 to give his family a better life. I do not claim his accomplishments and struggles as my own. What I do claim is the values and work ethic that he has instilled in me to be an honest man and make a good living. I worked minimum wage hard labor since the day I got my drivers license, and paid for my own college through that job and scholarships that I earned. I know what it means to make an honest living.

The people that have enough money to buy a dozen plus tactacams at $125 each are not the people that are barely making ends meat. Those people are the opportunistic and of low moral value. Hearing that someone bought out an entire stock of 150 cameras (almost $19k) to try and double their money by praying on hunters sickens me.
 
Amarty734 said:
You are correct in that I have been very privileged to have had the opportunity to a college degree and a good job. However, I am not where I am today because it was given to me. My father was one of 18 brothers and sisters born into a migrant worker family who worked non-stop from the age of 8 to give his family a better life. I do not claim his accomplishments and struggles as my own. What I do claim is the values and work ethic that he has instilled in me to be an honest man and make a good living. I worked minimum wage hard labor since the day I got my drivers license, and paid for my own college through that job and scholarships that I earned. I know what it means to make an honest living.

The people that have enough money to buy a dozen plus tactacams at $125 each are not the people that are barely making ends meat. Those people are the opportunistic and of low moral value. Hearing that someone bought out an entire stock of 150 cameras (almost $19k) to try and double their money by praying on hunters sickens me.
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does it suck not being able to find the thing you want? yes, but it is what it is. Who cares how much money people have or how they choose to make it? I'm very comfortable, but I still pick up coins when i see them on the street. Each cent gets me closer to retirement, which is still a long way off. Capitalism is great and sucks at the same time, everyone's preying on everyone, that's the point- to extract as much value as you can from the system. hTis is literally how/why our government is set up to protect the free market. (we can get int oa seprate debate about just how "free" that market really is... but that's a separate thread that may get too political.

If you found something at a yard sale that was way under valued, you'd offer full price? if not you're no different, you're procuring a commodity for less than what you know it is worth. If the next step is putting the item in your house that is no different than reselling it for it's actual value and pocketing the profits. Sticking with the same idea- lets say this garage sale is hunting gear, with a box full of trail cams, 10 dollars apiece. You wouldn't buy the whole box and then possibly sell a few on here to "cover your costs?" I think most people would (I would for sure, and i'd NOT say where I found them/ for sure not how much I paid), and congrats youve now engaged in arbitrage to an extent. Do we like it when we get gouged? no, but if someone's willingto pay, it sells. Thats why i won't buy a 200 dollar safeguard, but as said previously, unless madrock jacks up either price or production, they'll be for sale at that amount.
 
Why not just not waste money buying subpar trail cams in the first place and spend more effort actually scouting and hunting? Guarantee that pays off way more than a $100 trail cam.

Then you can just grin and flip the bird to the lowlife scumbags (it’s not capitalism btw) who buy up entire stores stock just to rip off their fellow neighbors.

Hunting doesn’t have to be materialistic, all you need is a weapon to kill your game and a knife to clean it, that’s it. Trail cams are way down the list of things needed to hunt.
 
swampdonkey said:
Why not just not waste money buying subpar trail cams in the first place and spend more effort actually scouting and hunting? Guarantee that pays off way more than a $100 trail cam.

Then you can just grin and flip the bird to the lowlife scumbags (it’s not capitalism btw) who buy up entire stores stock just to rip off their fellow neighbors.

Hunting doesn’t have to be materialistic, all you need is a weapon to kill your game and a knife to clean it, that’s it. Trail cams are way down the list of things needed to hunt.
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I have been using them to gather historical data out of state so that I can use the knowledge to my advantage when I get to hunt those spots once or twice a year. I agree that they are not necessary as I have killed several bucks going in blind making decisions on fresh deer sign. But when you want to keep an eye on a spot 4 hours from home they are very valuable tools and can make life much easier.
 
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