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

[Potato Burrito]

I just can't understand the mindset of his customers: hordes of people showing up to his auctions, money in hand, ready to buy something, anything, without really caring what it is.

I'd never heard of this so I looked it up. I get it. It's just another cheap dopamine machine for the braindead populace to stare at.

I'm not downloading this shit, don't need to to see what's happening here.



Look at this fucking Instagram result. Jesus Christ.


The last time I used eBay it looked pretty much exactly like it did the first time I used it more than 20 years ago. You actually have to read and search for shit you want. This WhatNot is just TikTok with a bonus gacha aspect for consoomers hoping to catch a new shiny thing. Stare, like, buy. Rats tapping at the feed bar.

Fuck, we're really doomed as a society aren't we.

 

[56 others]

So I watch this guy on YouTube sometimes. He lost his office job during Covid and turned to "reselling" to bring in some cash at the time. Eventually he became so successful at it that he didn't bother trying to hunt for a real job again, and his wife even quit her job to join him full time.

I liked the concept. He'd comb through thrift stores and flea markets looking for hidden gems. He'd clean things up, take nice photos, and list them on eBay. It made sense. If a buyer is after something specific, hunting through Goodwill stores is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. He provided a valuable service of categorizing something otherwise chaotic. And everybody in the chain made out well. The thrift store / flea market folks sold their junk; the end buyers got something they really wanted; and this reseller guy got to keep the difference for his trouble. Win-Win-Win.

But lately he's been doing a lot less with eBay and a lot more on a live auction site called WhatNot, and it really illustrates to me that some people are VERY eager to spend some money and care VERY little about what it is that they're purchasing. He has a wide variety of items in his auctions -- everything from clothing to coffee cups to toys to collectibles to home decor and more. How does a buyer participate in an auction like that that's so unfocused? If I need to buy something, I'm looking for something specific -- it makes no sense to sit around and hope that one of the random things he happens to be selling might meet my needs. Maybe if I wanted to give someone a gift and was looking for inspiration on what to select, such a format might be appealing, but even so it just seems unfocused.

But he does really well with it -- that's why he's doing it so much more than eBay lately. I just can't understand the mindset of his customers: hordes of people showing up to his auctions, money in hand, ready to buy something, anything, without really caring what it is.

Who is the guy

 

[Acoustic Virgin]

Who is the guy

I didn't name him because I don't really have an issue with him -- he was just my introduction to the WhatNot app that I wanted to talk about.

But his YouTube handle is Hairy Tornado.

https://www.youtube.com/@HairyTornado

I don't have a link to his WhatNot because hell if I'm going anywhere near that mess.

His name is Josh, and his wife is Hayley. They seem like really good people. They explain the process of what they do and how they earn money. I suspect that their target audience is other resellers, but I like watching them because they're pleasant, they make for good background noise, and they introduced me to this subset of the economy that I never knew existed.

 

[74164978231]

I'd never heard of this so I looked it up. I get it. It's just another cheap dopamine machine for the braindead populace to stare at.

I'm not downloading this shit, don't need to to see what's happening here.

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Look at this fucking Instagram result. Jesus Christ.

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The last time I used eBay it looked pretty much exactly like it did the first time I used it more than 20 years ago. You actually have to read and search for shit you want. This WhatNot is just TikTok with a bonus gacha aspect for consoomers hoping to catch a new shiny thing. Stare, like, buy. Rats tapping at the feed bar.

Fuck, we're really doomed as a society aren't we.

Can we just go to a universe where this shit isn't so fucking pervasive?

 

[Sebben Crudele II]

We are all well acquainted with the bootleg chink merch that comes out every time something on the internet becomes popular with children, but seeing italian brainrot plushies everywhere is still deeply confusing to me. I try to remember the things I liked as a child and seeing crap like that Sahur thing as a plush toy would have scared me. Hell, those poppy playtime or banban games have horrifying characters to have as toys for children. What the fuck is up with the parents.

 

[56 others]

Can we just go to a universe where this shit isn't so fucking pervasive?

We can make a world where this isn't allowed to exist

 

[moocow]

We can make a world where this isn't allowed to exist

It starts with bullying -- people who indulge in this shit (either selling or buying) should be ridiculed and drummed out of civilized society. People who defend them should endure the same.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I liked the concept. He'd comb through thrift stores and flea markets looking for hidden gems. He'd clean things up, take nice photos, and list them on eBay.

I've watched a fair few antique road shows on state telly and it's surprising how many 'young' people get into it. But I also don't get it at all. They'll find a super prestigious brand chair from the 70s missing 3 legs and it'll go for 70% price. Then another time they'll find an equal chair that just needs a bit of polishing and it's 20% price at best. It sure takes a person to get into and understand these things. Granted, today, with zoomers, it's probably just getting your hands on a delulu doll or a water bottle or what have you.

We got these stores where you buy a stand and put up shit you wanna sell. Some people make good money doing it, but obviously it only works those 2 months you empty out grandma's cellar.

 

[Prune Tracy]

Maybe I'm being but that sounds relatively benign if you're already a gambling addict. You may never save up the money for something more useful, but at least this way the AI auto-buying things guarantees you get something out of it when you win instead of the risk that you blow the thousands you just won by immediately gambling it all.

Like annual portfolio rebalancing but for degenerates.

 

[The Lawgiver]

The last time I used eBay it looked pretty much exactly like it did the first time I used it more than 20 years ago. You actually have to read and search for shit you want. This WhatNot is just TikTok with a bonus gacha aspect for consoomers hoping to catch a new shiny thing. Stare, like, buy. Rats tapping at the feed bar.

Fuck, we're really doomed as a society aren't we.

Ebay has shit like this if you scroll down on the front page now, there's several autoplaying verticla mode "ebay live" livestreams that are the same shit as this whatnot and the tiktok dropship seller/scalper streams. I do my best to ignore them and even though ebay search has become ass a few years ago because they revised it like google to not prioritize what you actually type out I can still have a mostly normal ebay experience.

Watching prices go up and retards spend money on shit only tot hen try and treat it like a stock to flip higher has made buying fucking anything online that wasn't released just this year and isn't already overpriced shit nobody would ever want incredibly inconvenient.

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This shit's primarily isolated to US releases of old games and that really shows how artificial all these nightmare price inflations are. I rambled about that before but jesus fucking christ I hate "value speculator" motherfuckers

 

[augment]

I went to a used game store and they had a tv on the wall with real-time "price changes", so my bet here is that a substantial amount of business majors just pitched their tent and decided to NFTvize the hell out of the hobby.

 

[John Titor]

lol. whoever said audiophiles were full of shit probably feels vindicated.

 

[escampar]

This guy is currently about 400 (full priced) games short of catching 'em all, with more being released every day. Can he do it?

Update on this, though didn't check if same guy:

r/gamecollecting post
r/NSCollectors post

They write: "Alot of people were very angry when I posted this at 2400 Switch games. After alot of soul searching I've recommited and I'm up to 2900 Switch games now. are we more or less happy with this development?"

It's hilarious because reddit culture DEMANDS tolerance and acceptance, and it comes from their liberal degeneracy / anti-"kink shaming" mind virus but even the PC replies to the post can't hold back the truth:

- "Hey man flex all you want. Hope your life is full of joy and you have no regrets. God speed!"
- "No problem at all. Just not how I’d spend my money!"
- "If it was a wall of shoes people would have a different reaction Collections are collections. This is what OP wants to display I see no problem"

Then the replies who have sense and are likely to be banned for it (don't worry, they won't abandon reddit, just make another account):

- "Nope. Im free to like small, curated, beautiful collections and free to dislike dump truck delivered huge piles of plastic cases presented like paperwork."
- "My guy. I know we joke around alot but i cant help but see this as a shopping addiction. I know people talk about “collections” but this just feels like clicking “buy” without thinking just because new shiny."

As a bonus check out this similar tard from r/SBCGaming (Single Board Computer):

r/SBCGaming post

They're perfect for each other: one buys games they'll never play, and the other buys consoles they'll never use.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

They write: "Alot of people were very angry when I posted this at 2400 Switch games. After alot of soul searching I've recommited and I'm up to 2900 Switch games now. are we more or less happy with this development?"

Well, the good(?) news is that there's something to the effect of 5,000 games that have gotten a physical release on the Switch. So there's a non-zero chance that every one of those is a uniqe title.

Still retarded but hey, silver linings.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I'm up to 2900 Switch games now

The fuck is the point? Even if they take one hour to beat each game that's still going to be over a year, unless he can afford that and be unemployed. By the time you play all of that nintendo will have moved on to something new and forcibly bricked every switch, you know for anti piracy reasons. I have about 10 games in my backlog and even that is too much to get through, let alone 2900 plus the xbox and ds games in the corner that probably add a few thousand more.

If you cannot tell me about the things you own then you are a hoarder not a collector. There is no way he knows anything about 99% of those games and even if he did that's probably a worse sign anyway.

 

[Barry Williams]

There are some good games for the Switch, but there are not 2,900 of them. Maybe 100-200 if you want to include compilations and reissues. The staggering majority of that collection is probably dog shit. Who knows how many "download code in an empty case" there are.

 

[AnOminous]

If you cannot tell me about the things you own then you are a hoarder not a collector.

He's the organized kind of hoarder, though, with everything neatly shelved and probably has some autistic way he places them, not the deranged hoarder type who has literal buckets of shit and piss lying around and some rooms he can no longer enter because they're full of garbage.

 

[moocow]

Well, the good(?) news is that there's something to the effect of 5,000 games that have gotten a physical release on the Switch. So there's a non-zero chance that every one of those is a uniqe title.

lol fuckin' wat?!?! There's 5k+ physical releases? Holy shitballs! I had no idea; I thought the majority of the Switch's shovelware was digital-only. Damn, manufacturing those must have gotten cheap in the last few years of S1's lifetime.

 

[stupid frog]

Switch collections are extra disgusting due to the red spine color.

 

[Pedophobe]

It starts with bullying -- people who indulge in this shit (either selling or buying) should be ridiculed and drummed out of civilized society. People who defend them should endure the same.

I've successfully bullied two people out of using Temu. I'd do more but I'm not very sociable.