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Just catching up, and I clicked on this quote before I read other people discussing this topic. But I still want to get my two cents in. And I’m not singling you out, @horseshoes, because it seems like everybody is operating this way.Me bidding on these items and trying to obtain them are for the purpose of having trade bait both for myself and my chipping friends.
THIS SUCKS
I was probably late to the party, when I realized, last year, that this was the trend - buy anything desirable you can, if there’s a rack you don’t want and will never use, BUY IT! IT’S CURRENCY. And you can almost rationalize some nobility out of it, can’t you? I’m not flipping! I’m just waiting for the right trade. Poop. I was on that bandwagon for like six months, before I finally said eff that, and sold crap I wouldnt use. And admittedly, that was less of a noble decision on my part and more of an adjustment to my expectations of this hobby - I basically checked out of the rat race, because it’s gotten gross.
I wonder what percentage of people who entered these chicken lotteries did so not because they wanted chicken chips, not because they wanted to relabel them, but purely to amass trade bait. I’d speculate something like 75%+. And this is nothing new, but this chicken event just serves to highlight how desperate everybody in this hobby has become. Blah blah blah, TL;DR, I’m a big whiny bitch. But the whole “trade bait” hoarding that everybody’s doing freaking sucks.