RE: Selling Items on VL

Damn, now I feel all guilty for asking you to consider doing a
Gravitar CPO. :-( I thought for sure, if you did a BW, that
a Gravitar would be in-demand. Who knew?

I guess asking for a Berzerk CPO and Venture CPO is now
out of the question ... woops (those arn't v-e-c-t-o-r games)!
Me bad.

I for one think you're doing a great service to the hobby and
offering CPOs (vector even) to the group is beyond reproach.
Rant as you will but remember some (if not most) of us appreciate what
you're doing (for profit or not). I don't think its breaking the
charter. Damn if I had a few extra soldering stations, I'd sell
them first to people who "love" the hobby as I do ... instead
of to the masses who don't give a damn about why my
Asteroids are all "wavy" or why my SW keeps giving me
mathbox errors ...

Anyway, just be glad you're not a "duck". :-) [Replace the
"d" with "f" if you wish].

  SPW
  Kanata, On
  CANADA

<my time to rant>
p.s. Go bad and do what every other money grubbin' bastard
is doing, and sell them to the highest bidder on Ebay. Screw
the hobby, who !@#$'n cares!!!
<end of rant, I feel better, sorry if I bugg'd anyone here - me have bad day
today>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chumblespuzz [SMTP:chumblespuzz@home.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 9:12 PM
> To: vectorlist
> Subject: Re: Selling Items on VL
>
> <rant>
>
> Well, what about my CPOs? Aside from Crystal Castles (which I needed for
> my
> macine) all my CPOs have been for vector games. All of them have been
> produced to help restore vector machines, and some of them have been done
> to
> help specific VL subscribers (such as the dedicated Major Havoc and
> Gravitar).
>
> I certainly don't do this for the profit (if you can even call it that).
> Do
> you know how many people responded to my post for Gravitar CPOs? *Z*E*R*O*
> !!! Sure, Simon will take one ;) and one other VL'er agreed to take one
> before the post, but do you think I will ever recoupe my time on this? Of
> course not. I never expected to. I do this to help all of us.
>
> I wish that the actual production for these was free. Then I'd just give
> them away. But it's not so I can't. Do you think that if it cost Clay or
> Zonn to give such good advice it would be given away so freely?
> Fortunately
> for all of us, their skills can be expressed in words. Mine requires some
> capital. What good would it be for anyone if I redrew the art and just
> made
> bitmaps of it, never actually producing the CPOs?
>
> What about the new vector monitor project? Lot's of people here have
> contributed to it. Once these are produced should they not be offered
> first
> to the VL (at a discounted price, I hope)?
>
> If you all think that it's wrong to for me to "sell" CPOs on the VL, then
> I'll stop. Sure I could make more on them on RGVAC, but I truly value the
> information I get on the vector list and I just want to give something
> back.
>
> I don't think that everything should be available for sale on the VL, but
> where there is a clear benefit to the group for vector related items it
> should be considered. Perhaps there should be a VLFS gatekeeper. All FS
> posts should go through him first, and if deemed appropriate then passed
> on
> to the list. It'd be an ugly job, and I sure wouldn't want it.
>
> </rant>
>
> -roy-
>
Received on Wed Dec 1 20:54:11 1999