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Selling my deck
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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While I think capitalism is shit, I do believe in supply and demand. I was recently getting zero bites on my desktop computer, then lowered the listing price by 50% in the auction and sold it in a week at 80% of the original listing price.
It turns out the price I thought was fair, didn't meet the market and there were exactly zero people interested in buying it at that price. That's what's happening to you sadly.
Think of it this way: at your current price you get no bites. If you were to sell it at $50 people would buy it immediately. Now you have to find a happy medium both you and buyers are happy with.
Don’t feel guilty about believing in supply/demand while disliking capitalism. Commerce isn’t capitalism and trade existed before stock markets, corporations, and shareholders.
Not to turn a steam deck comment thread into something political. I’m not saying capitalism is good or bad. I’m just saying that stores existed before Adam Smith or the Dutch East India Company (or whenever you want to say capitalism emerged). Ancient Egyptian cities had markets. Prehistory probably had commerce.