The Used Parts Market & Resellers

[dizzariot]

Originally Posted by !Zar!

The price is only as dumb as the buyer.

No point being salty at the sellers.

If there is a market for it, people will sell it.

Why would anyone not try to get top dollar for something theh are selling?

I disagree.

I get salty because somewhere down the line some fucking cunt started all of this and the trend caught on. Now we're in 2018 and shit is so fucking inflated it's no wonder people mount the "can't afford legit parts" argument when their car looks like a bag of smashed assholes.

I can see how you're playing Devil's Advocate and I really do see what you mean. I'm posing the question of what the fuck can we do as a community to try and make a dent. If you're not with the optimism (that something can be done) that's cool man. Just wanted to get people thinking about it.

Originally Posted by mechanicalmoron

...this thread is a bunch of bitching about getting your hustles stepped on.

"let's not use any names, or mention any time or place, or any particular subject, or why it bothers us so much, or what bothers us so much, but whatever it is, it really needs to stop, because some people are probably outraged or something"

Dipshits trashed all the 240s, ran all the cool bits into walls, parted it all out, and now you're complaining that prices are going up? Poor old you can't profiteer so easily anymore? It's about time, better than prices being artificially low as every last cool car or part is burnt thru in a few years. You all bought your cool shift knobs or whatever just as all the 240s got destroyed, and now people want them, it's not because YOU bought one, and they're just worse people than you.... It's because YOU and your buddies parted out 838755 240s, and now they're largely gone. Your crappy culture consumed itself, because you chose to profit in unsustainable short-term ways.

1.) There it is. The first dude calling it a hustle. No one in here has an IG page with the word 'entrepreneur' in the bio and an ugly 'car girl girlfriend' rubbing her asshole all over the hood of their car to get IG likes. So yeah, no one here is hustling, playboi.

2.) Obviously people are pissed. There are people in this thread. I'm in fucking Japan and I can't even get shit locally because every fucking neckbeard with a 90s Japanese car resells parts.

3.) Holy shit: put on your tinfoil hats. You're saying that the mark-up is due to fuckboys destroying cars? What the fuck does 'artificially low' mean?

4.) Aren't you the same fucking dude defending shitboxes?

Originally Posted by mechanicalmoron

People are not static. You can give them what it takes to improve, or you can drive them away, and cut your nose off to spite your face.

Where's this optimism? Only works when you want to defend a fucking piece of shit posted in the DIW thread? Can you not see the contradictions here...

[!Zar!]

Originally Posted by dizzariot

I disagree.

I get salty because somewhere down the line some fucking cunt started all of this and the trend caught on. Now we're in 2018 and shit is so fucking inflated it's no wonder people mount the "can't afford legit parts" argument when their car looks like a bag of smashed assholes.

I can see how you're playing Devil's Advocate and I really do see what you mean. I'm posing the question of what the fuck can we do as a community to try and make a dent. If you're not with the optimism (that something can be done) that's cool man. Just wanted to get people thinking about it.

As someone said earlier, this is no different than the sneaker game.

The resell price only goes down due to low demand, or when the market is oversaturated.

So to answer your question as to what can be done? Reallistically, nothing. Maybe try to convince a manufacturer that there is a market for a certain product and try to reproduce the item.

If you see people reselling a product which is widely available elsewhere? Simply call them out on it and provide facts. That’s all you can really do.

[pacotaco345]

Originally Posted by dizzariot

I disagree.

Good for you

Originally Posted by dizzariot

I get salty because somewhere down the line some fucking cunt started all of this and the trend caught on. Now we're in 2018 and shit is so fucking inflated it's no wonder people mount the "can't afford legit parts" argument when their car looks like a bag of smashed assholes.

In 2006 it still cost a zillion dollars to import a body kit. Those "fucking cunts" are driving up the prices of shift knobs, thrash seats, 20 y/o gauges and shitty high-offset 3 piece wheels. None of which make a car look cool. Last I checked you can still buy paint in America.

Originally Posted by dizzariot

1.) There it is. The first dude calling it a hustle. No one in here has an IG page with the word 'entrepreneur' in the bio and an ugly 'car girl girlfriend' rubbing her asshole all over the hood of their car to get IG likes. So yeah, no one here is hustling, playboi.

Is your primary occupation importing Japanese goods? No? Then its your hustle.

Originally Posted by dizzariot

2.) Obviously people are pissed. There are people in this thread. I'm in fucking Japan and I can't even get shit locally because every fucking neckbeard with a 90s Japanese car resells parts.

You can't get shit locally because you've only lived in Japan for a year, Yokosuka at that, land of corner dealerships selling rusty resprayed GTRs for double what they're worth to sailors with more money than brain, and I'm sure you don't speak the language fluently either. I have a handful of friends over there that buy and sell stuff on a weekly basis because they know where to look.