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Krelbit
Guest
Hello! - here. Some of you may know me as -, and probably, that's most of you.
I started frequenting this site in September of 2014, and watching it grow has certainly become an experience. I've had a lot of good times with Pokemon, but that's come with a price as well.
I'm a casual player. Tried battling, never worked out for me. Didn't like it.
So, I started selling pokemon. It went well. Really well. I'm proud to say that i've been the first choice for over 200 new members, and have had over 600 transactions with other members of this fine site.
The dark side of this being that I've lost almost all the magic of pokemon. I see them as nothing more than profit boats now. It's depressing and I kind of hate that something I love could be turned into a money making
machine.
But, I'm a profit driven miserable greedy meatsack, what more can I do than keep on selling?
Except I can't anymore, lol. Me and a lot of other sellers are being chokeheld by new undercutters. @Chaos's profits are dwindling, and he was the one everyone looked up to as a seller, which is disconcerting to most, if not all of us sellers looking to actually make our time worth something. New stores scrape the minimum price barrel because it's all they can do to compete, which is reasonable, but still utter bullshit. Of course, it's not the only reason I'm quitting, but it does play a major role in all of this, not gonna sugar coat it.
I've seen a lot of my friends come and go from this site. Probably too many, really. While I do get to see them in the shoutbox once every blue moon, it's just not worth waiting around for these special people. I really do appreciate my current friends on the site. @ericashes, @GiaQuando and @cj-97 are amazing friends, but they both know they can't replace some of the people who have left. These people helped and were helped by me and really made my experience in coming to the site so much better. Now that they've become less active or disappeared entirely, it's harder to keep coming back.
I've been dabbling in economics for the past few months and I find it absolutely fascinating. Now about a month ago I learned about the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. It states that too much of a good thing will eventually lead to giving me negative utility (or happiness) and I can see that starting to take root here. I'm just not as happy on this site as I used to be.
I've also learned that if my costs outweigh my benefits, both utilital and monetary, I should stop what I'm doing.
And that's where this leads me. I'm not making enough money, neither am I happy enough to keep going on in this environment. I wholeheartedly respect and love the community here but it has gotten to a point where it's just not worth it anymore. I'll pop in every now and then, probably less than @x0rqasmatr0n. Who knows, I may make a return with Sun and Moon. If prices start to rise again I'll set up shop again and hopefully keep it that way. ^^
Thanks for the great year and a half, everyone. You'll all be in my mind.
Now, I can still be contacted. In fact, I'll base a promotion on contacting me.
I've personally got a special offer for anyone who can read this.
If you've got the correct firmware (10.5-9.2), or about $30-40 USD to kick away on needed materials (not trying to sell you anything, I'll redirect you to the proper marketplace where you can buy said materials), I will teach you how to gen for FREE! Assuming you're not a total asshat to me, and you can follow my (very simple) directions.
I can be reached via skype with this link.
Someday soon, hopefully,
-.
Ya' feel that, Jimmy? The shoutbox just got a whole lot less cancerous.
PS: I'll stick around for the next couple days. Til my sticky wears out on 4/15, at least.
I started frequenting this site in September of 2014, and watching it grow has certainly become an experience. I've had a lot of good times with Pokemon, but that's come with a price as well.
I'm a casual player. Tried battling, never worked out for me. Didn't like it.
So, I started selling pokemon. It went well. Really well. I'm proud to say that i've been the first choice for over 200 new members, and have had over 600 transactions with other members of this fine site.
The dark side of this being that I've lost almost all the magic of pokemon. I see them as nothing more than profit boats now. It's depressing and I kind of hate that something I love could be turned into a money making
machine.
But, I'm a profit driven miserable greedy meatsack, what more can I do than keep on selling?
Except I can't anymore, lol. Me and a lot of other sellers are being chokeheld by new undercutters. @Chaos's profits are dwindling, and he was the one everyone looked up to as a seller, which is disconcerting to most, if not all of us sellers looking to actually make our time worth something. New stores scrape the minimum price barrel because it's all they can do to compete, which is reasonable, but still utter bullshit. Of course, it's not the only reason I'm quitting, but it does play a major role in all of this, not gonna sugar coat it.
I've seen a lot of my friends come and go from this site. Probably too many, really. While I do get to see them in the shoutbox once every blue moon, it's just not worth waiting around for these special people. I really do appreciate my current friends on the site. @ericashes, @GiaQuando and @cj-97 are amazing friends, but they both know they can't replace some of the people who have left. These people helped and were helped by me and really made my experience in coming to the site so much better. Now that they've become less active or disappeared entirely, it's harder to keep coming back.
I've been dabbling in economics for the past few months and I find it absolutely fascinating. Now about a month ago I learned about the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. It states that too much of a good thing will eventually lead to giving me negative utility (or happiness) and I can see that starting to take root here. I'm just not as happy on this site as I used to be.
I've also learned that if my costs outweigh my benefits, both utilital and monetary, I should stop what I'm doing.
And that's where this leads me. I'm not making enough money, neither am I happy enough to keep going on in this environment. I wholeheartedly respect and love the community here but it has gotten to a point where it's just not worth it anymore. I'll pop in every now and then, probably less than @x0rqasmatr0n. Who knows, I may make a return with Sun and Moon. If prices start to rise again I'll set up shop again and hopefully keep it that way. ^^
Thanks for the great year and a half, everyone. You'll all be in my mind.
Now, I can still be contacted. In fact, I'll base a promotion on contacting me.
I've personally got a special offer for anyone who can read this.
If you've got the correct firmware (10.5-9.2), or about $30-40 USD to kick away on needed materials (not trying to sell you anything, I'll redirect you to the proper marketplace where you can buy said materials), I will teach you how to gen for FREE! Assuming you're not a total asshat to me, and you can follow my (very simple) directions.
I can be reached via skype with this link.
Someday soon, hopefully,
-.
Ya' feel that, Jimmy? The shoutbox just got a whole lot less cancerous.
PS: I'll stick around for the next couple days. Til my sticky wears out on 4/15, at least.
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