If you were selling an item on here and someone offered you your asking price, in exchange for you making a Youtube video of yourself destroying the item, would you do it?
A while ago we had a thread on here where someone said they didn't like selling to people on ebay if they thought the buyer would resell it for profit elsewhere. And a lot of people argued that when selling an item, your main intention is to get your asking price, so cares what they do with it?
During my art student days I enjoyed taking personal artwork which people praised, selecting one piece and then burning it. I burned a full-frame oil portrait on canvas, plus many sketches and drawings, smaller paintings on card, anything which took my fancy. I've always taken pleasure in removing something which is both beautiful and unique from existence (I suppose it's a bit like that guy in Fight Club). I think I was influenced by a Willem Defoe film where he burned his own paintings.
Now, most games aren't unique since one cartridge/CD will be mass produced, but it carries with it all the memories of all the owners. Looking at my modded Sega CD today, which I intend to sell soon, I suddenly thought: would I be able to part with it if the buyer, instead of choosing to receive the item, asked me to destroy it? I would, in the end, once I was guaranteed payment or received it first. But how would I feel?
I know a lot of people would be too torn up to do that, or they wouldn't like it much, and I've seen several depressed threads in the sales forum here where sellers regret offering up their cherished possessions.
If I or anyone else met your asking price, would you destroy your collection of NeoGeo games, pristine SNES carts, signed copy of Nights, etc, and place the videos on youtube as proof of having done this? It would have to be explicit, showing the items being burned, or drilled into, or smashed beyond repair with a hammer or something. Payment and continued payment for future items would be dependant on absolute destruction of said items.
COULD YOU DO IT?
A while ago we had a thread on here where someone said they didn't like selling to people on ebay if they thought the buyer would resell it for profit elsewhere. And a lot of people argued that when selling an item, your main intention is to get your asking price, so cares what they do with it?
During my art student days I enjoyed taking personal artwork which people praised, selecting one piece and then burning it. I burned a full-frame oil portrait on canvas, plus many sketches and drawings, smaller paintings on card, anything which took my fancy. I've always taken pleasure in removing something which is both beautiful and unique from existence (I suppose it's a bit like that guy in Fight Club). I think I was influenced by a Willem Defoe film where he burned his own paintings.
Now, most games aren't unique since one cartridge/CD will be mass produced, but it carries with it all the memories of all the owners. Looking at my modded Sega CD today, which I intend to sell soon, I suddenly thought: would I be able to part with it if the buyer, instead of choosing to receive the item, asked me to destroy it? I would, in the end, once I was guaranteed payment or received it first. But how would I feel?
I know a lot of people would be too torn up to do that, or they wouldn't like it much, and I've seen several depressed threads in the sales forum here where sellers regret offering up their cherished possessions.
If I or anyone else met your asking price, would you destroy your collection of NeoGeo games, pristine SNES carts, signed copy of Nights, etc, and place the videos on youtube as proof of having done this? It would have to be explicit, showing the items being burned, or drilled into, or smashed beyond repair with a hammer or something. Payment and continued payment for future items would be dependant on absolute destruction of said items.
COULD YOU DO IT?
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