Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
What does that even mean? What conventions? According to whom? At what time?

A Playboy covergirl doesn't look like a runway supermodel, and neither of them look like an Olympian. Yet all could easily be argued for the pinnacle of beauty. So what, precisely, do you mean by "conventionally attractive"? Because I'll tell you what these girls probably ain't it being dog faced and frumpy.
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Conventionally attractive doesn't mean super model. It means attractive and not part of some alt culture. Literally just any woman who is not ugly and is not a goth or whatever. All of those people are conventionally attractive. Decent face, obviously take care of skin and hair, not fat. That's it. That's all it means. The woman next door type is conventionally attractive, it doesn't mean playboy model.
 
Consoom 400+ brand new sealed games at full retail price (or more) to submit to a scam grading company at a cost of $50-$200 each.

And never play a single one.

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The Great Citracett said:
Consoom 400+ brand new sealed games at full retail price (or more) to submit to a scam grading company at a cost of $50-$200 each.

And never play a single one.

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My favourite part about these sorts of people is that they will continually resubmit the exact same item over and over again. I don't mean they will buy 50 copies of the same game, they will buy a few copies and will just break the grading case off of them and send them back to hopefully get a different score. It's like all the retards with rich parents who would constantly pay for them to resit exams in school despite it being obvious they will just fail for the 10th time. The fact that you can do this with any grading company makes the entire reason moot. What's the point in buying a gem mint 10 when not even the grading people can distinguish it from a 7? At least do some cool shit like getting it signed by someone relevant to the game not just a fucking sticker with a number on it.

Especially with a pretty niche game too.
 
Kalsarikännit said:
Grading shit is so goddamn stupid.
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I agree but I can have fun with stupid. I think about Grading a lot because the concept fascinates me. We sometimes get graded comics turned into us at work that require research. Most of the comics are worthless except for the fact they're graded and I'm always asking "why... ". Usually I think it's either a personal keepsake or, sometimes I get the inkling the dude thought it was gonna be worth big money one day since it's a "#1 issue", but was sorely disappointed.

I think do see the serious appeal now I guess, but only if you have like, no intention of selling the thing you already own and just want a cool display piece that makes you look bougie-ish. I'm pretty sure a nice frame would make it look better than a grade does tho.

I do think it could be fun to fuck around with. Like, what would the value be for a graded Channel Awesome dvd? Can you grade anything? Money, cards, dvds, cds, comics, VHS, cassettes, and vinyl I know but like, can I grade a soda can? I don't think I've ever seen a bog standard book slabbed and graded but wouldn't be surprised if that's a thing.

I think the best use of Grading is for bullshit. I wanna grade the water damaged, ripped to fuck and back pokemon(?) card I found at the local park in the grass. Just knowing some schmuck has to take the time out of his day to do that if I pay for it, would be really funny imo.

I know RLM did the Nukie thing but they're RLM and have a massive fanbase that inherently skews the data imo.

Idk, it is fun to think about
 
Randy Butternubs said:
I do think it could be fun to fuck around with. Like, what would the value be for a graded Channel Awesome dvd? Can you grade anything? Money, cards, dvds, cds, comics, VHS, cassettes, and vinyl I know but like, can I grade a soda can? I don't think I've ever seen a bog standard book slabbed and graded but wouldn't be surprised if that's a thing.

I think the best use of Grading is for bullshit. I wanna grade the water damaged, ripped to fuck and back pokemon(?) card I found at the local park in the grass. Just knowing some schmuck has to take the time out of his day to do that if I pay for it, would be really funny imo.
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That was a funny thing to do until the card grading services started marketing to that angle as a "joke". I've seen some places (like CGC which for the life of me I cannot find their page about it) intentionally try to spin getting a card graded as a "1" as a fun novelty. And it costs just as much to get it graded as your gem mint 10/10 whatever. They're onto that now. They don't care. You're not wasting anyone's time anymore, they are transparently telling you to your face that you're a gullible retard and they figured you out. CGC themselves maintain a presence at major conventions now so if you bring a Pokemon card to get graded by one of the voice actor guests you can pay a CGC rep to wait in line with you, pay the voice actor to sign your dumb card, let the CGC rep witness this signature for "authentication purposes", and then right then and there hand your card over to the CGC guy AND PAY THEM SOME MORE in order to take it back to their HQ and grade it and send it back to you (and you'll pay for insured shipping as well of course).

Whenever the topic of people taking grading super seriously comes up I always think back to the guy who has one of the stupidest video games ever (My Stop Smoking Coach for Nintendo DS, factory sealed) listed on eBay for one million dollars (or best offer!) as a joke at the expense of all the retard speculators who think their 8.5/10 CIB copy of Super Mario will make them a fortune someday.
 
Something that has been scratching my mind lately is big artist releasing a shitton of album variants. Like no, one album doesn't need 30 different vinyl versions. One obvious example of this is Taylor Swift.
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"But you don't need to collect them all" There are fans who will kill themselves for Taylor to look their way. And I'm not sarcastic. Taylor has one of the worst fanbase in the music industry. So, yeah, her fans are insane enough to buy them all.

"But she needs the money" She's a billionaire who makes more money in an hour, than what you make in a year.

"But this version has an added song to it and it's limited edition" It's a marketing strategy for you to put money in her pocket.

And I'm not talking only about Taylor, Charlixcx did the same with brat, and so did many other extremely popular artists.
This also suppresses small artist by making them enabled to produce physical media. When one big singer is demanding thousands of vinyl versions, the record company ignores smaller singers for profit.

Taylor Swift is the queen of overconsoomerism and media overproduction.
 
_scythe_ said:
Something that has been scratching my mind lately is big artist releasing a shitton of album variants. Like no, one album doesn't need 30 different vinyl versions. One obvious example of this is Taylor Swift.
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"But you don't need to collect them all" There are fans who will kill themselves for Taylor to look their way. And I'm not sarcastic. Taylor has one of the worst fanbase in the music industry. So, yeah, her fans are insane enough to buy them all.

"But she needs the money" She's a billionaire who makes more money in an hour, than what you make in a year.

"But this version has an added song to it and it's limited edition" It's a marketing strategy for you to put money in her pocket.

And I'm not talking only about Taylor, Charlixcx did the same with brat, and so did many other extremely popular artists.
This also suppresses small artist by making them enabled to produce physical media. When one big singer is demanding thousands of vinyl versions, the record company ignores smaller singers for profit.

Taylor Swift is the queen of overconsoomerism and media overproduction.
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Does the average Taylor Swift fan even have a vinyl player? I thought she appealed to like, tweens and chicks who only listen to music on Spotify, like people who don't even know what an MP3 is let alone a vinyl
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
Does the average Taylor Swift fan even have a vinyl player? I thought she appealed to like, tweens and chicks who only listen to music on Spotify, like people who don't even know what an MP3 is let alone a vinyl
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The average fan definitely wouldn’t bother with buying any of these, but there’s definitely diehard fans who would collect this shit.
 
They will buy it just to have it. It's a collectible, not something they actually listen to.
 
You think triple posters exist because theyre too busy gooning their little penor to Daisy's Destruction to just edit their fucking posts
 
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