What is it with people and their poor judgment in...

[Spaceboy]

i buy random crap and flip in within a week
i should spend that money on better living situation, eating better, etc.
but to hell with it
i pay my bills... usually

 

[Ventura]

I like gear. And I've got gobs of money tied up in it. Were ALL of my purchases responsible? Fuck no. I'm not a professional touring musician... I only need 1 guitar and 1 amp. Need. But because life sucks sometimes, and I don't blow my coin on hookers and blow, or nights out with the boys buying expensive piss, or modding my car to be reflective of the deficit in my pants, or jewelry to prove to the public laypeople that I'm worth a shit, or stuffing it into the g-strings of pole spinning ho's....I like gear. Gear makes me happy. If life sucks and something makes me happy, I personally care less about the "potential financial ramifications of such a knee jerk impulse buy", FTW!!

Sorry to sound pissed here... But you're saying be responsible. More responsible. I tell ya what, I'd be overjoyed - absolutely fuckin overjoyed - if I saw a mass exodus of white collar executives take their gold and platinum amex cards and their visas and their mastercards and rack 'em up to the hilt on "unsecured debt" and then claim bankruptcy. I would LOVE that. Fact is, I want to do this. You know why? I'll tell you why, because this is EXACTLY what the government is doing to most of us every day and we take it - no knee pads - we just take it. Lies, injustices, and pervasive monetary policy - take it hard, un-lubed, and gritting out a smile.... So I say fuck the system. Ya, I bought a shit load of stuff. I like it. I'm not beating my kids or my wife, or killing my life and others' lives around me with drugs or booze, I'm not forcing a blow job out of a choir boy (praise jesus and all his valiant evangelical television pursuits), I'm not a liar, I'm not an asshole. I like gear.

Just my 2 cents.
Mo

 

[Mailman1971]

.....blow my coin on hookers and blow, or nights out with the boys buying expensive piss, or modding my car to be reflective of the deficit in my pants, or jewelry to prove to the public laypeople that I'm worth a shit, or stuffing it into the g-strings of pole spinning ho's....I like gear.
...

I hear ya man.....I hear ya.....

 

[nighttrain69]

I like gear. And I've got gobs of money tied up in it. Were ALL of my purchases responsible? Fuck no. I'm not a professional touring musician... I only need 1 guitar and 1 amp. Need. But because life sucks sometimes, and I don't blow my coin on hookers and blow, or nights out with the boys buying expensive piss, or modding my car to be reflective of the deficit in my pants, or jewelry to prove to the public laypeople that I'm worth a shit, or stuffing it into the g-strings of pole spinning ho's....I like gear. Gear makes me happy. If life sucks and something makes me happy, I personally care less about the "potential financial ramifications of such a knee jerk impulse buy", FTW!!

Sorry to sound pissed here... But you're saying be responsible. More responsible. I tell ya what, I'd be overjoyed - absolutely fuckin overjoyed - if I saw a mass exodus of white collar executives take their gold and platinum amex cards and their visas and their mastercards and rack 'em up to the hilt on "unsecured debt" and then claim bankruptcy. I would LOVE that. Fact is, I want to do this. You know why? I'll tell you why, because this is EXACTLY what the government is doing to most of us every day and we take it - no knee pads - we just take it. Lies, injustices, and pervasive monetary policy - take it hard, un-lubed, and gritting out a smile.... So I say fuck the system. Ya, I bought a shit load of stuff. I like it. I'm not beating my kids or my wife, or killing my life and others' lives around me with drugs or booze, I'm not forcing a blow job out of a choir boy (praise jesus and all his valiant evangelical television pursuits), I'm not a liar, I'm not an asshole. I like gear.

Just my 2 cents.
Mo

x1000 sometimes we take from peter to pay paul..gear doesnt always become available at the perfect time , so you bend..sometimes it works and sometimes it dont..but thats a choice each makes, with only their family to decide right or wrong , not a forum member

 

[controlled_voltage]

the guy who stared this post must be a really bored 1% er

 

[sjk]

I like gear. And I've got gobs of money tied up in it. Were ALL of my purchases responsible? Fuck no. I'm not a professional touring musician... I only need 1 guitar and 1 amp. Need. But because life sucks sometimes, and I don't blow my coin on hookers and blow, or nights out with the boys buying expensive piss, or modding my car to be reflective of the deficit in my pants, or jewelry to prove to the public laypeople that I'm worth a shit, or stuffing it into the g-strings of pole spinning ho's....I like gear. Gear makes me happy. If life sucks and something makes me happy, I personally care less about the "potential financial ramifications of such a knee jerk impulse buy", FTW!!

Sorry to sound pissed here... But you're saying be responsible. More responsible. I tell ya what, I'd be overjoyed - absolutely fuckin overjoyed - if I saw a mass exodus of white collar executives take their gold and platinum amex cards and their visas and their mastercards and rack 'em up to the hilt on "unsecured debt" and then claim bankruptcy. I would LOVE that. Fact is, I want to do this. You know why? I'll tell you why, because this is EXACTLY what the government is doing to most of us every day and we take it - no knee pads - we just take it. Lies, injustices, and pervasive monetary policy - take it hard, un-lubed, and gritting out a smile.... So I say fuck the system. Ya, I bought a shit load of stuff. I like it. I'm not beating my kids or my wife, or killing my life and others' lives around me with drugs or booze, I'm not forcing a blow job out of a choir boy (praise jesus and all his valiant evangelical television pursuits), I'm not a liar, I'm not an asshole. I like gear.

Just my 2 cents.
Mo

Great post

 

[rlord1974]

Every person on this board has made a bad decision or two....

Speak for yourself, dude. I've made dozens.....

 

[Anonymous]

I like gear. And I've got gobs of money tied up in it. Were ALL of my purchases responsible? Fuck no. I'm not a professional touring musician... I only need 1 guitar and 1 amp. Need. But because life sucks sometimes, and I don't blow my coin on hookers and blow, or nights out with the boys buying expensive piss, or modding my car to be reflective of the deficit in my pants, or jewelry to prove to the public laypeople that I'm worth a shit, or stuffing it into the g-strings of pole spinning ho's....I like gear. Gear makes me happy. If life sucks and something makes me happy, I personally care less about the "potential financial ramifications of such a knee jerk impulse buy", FTW!!

Sorry to sound pissed here... But you're saying be responsible. More responsible. I tell ya what, I'd be overjoyed - absolutely fuckin overjoyed - if I saw a mass exodus of white collar executives take their gold and platinum amex cards and their visas and their mastercards and rack 'em up to the hilt on "unsecured debt" and then claim bankruptcy. I would LOVE that. Fact is, I want to do this. You know why? I'll tell you why, because this is EXACTLY what the government is doing to most of us every day and we take it - no knee pads - we just take it. Lies, injustices, and pervasive monetary policy - take it hard, un-lubed, and gritting out a smile.... So I say fuck the system. Ya, I bought a shit load of stuff. I like it. I'm not beating my kids or my wife, or killing my life and others' lives around me with drugs or booze, I'm not forcing a blow job out of a choir boy (praise jesus and all his valiant evangelical television pursuits), I'm not a liar, I'm not an asshole. I like gear.

Just my 2 cents.
Mo

Great post

Yep, exactly my thoughts. no further comment. can this thread end now?

 

[Soundguy213]

nothing like that high horse

 

[killertone]

This reminds me, I gotta go bump my FS thread.

 

[rottingcorpse]

Umm...now that I'm thinking about it...I have stated in my for sale ads before.."I hate it but..You might like it!! " And of course..it still sells and the buyer loves it... So....Ya just never know?.

YOU BASTARD!!! THAT'S HOW YOU HOOKED ME IN ON THE MOCADLO!!

(still, it was a great score, thanks again, mang. come to think of it, i believe my reply on your sale thread was "what the hell, i'll take a chance.")

 

[Zachman]

 

[joepete77]

I think many post that they are only selling due to extreme financial trouble, loosing the house, kid needs a transplant or otherwise I wouldn't sell it, etc, because they don't want people to think that the gear isn't great. Also, they don't want to be on bad terms with the builder who may be a part of the community here. They waited over a year for their amp back, paid two grand, had it for two days and now it's in classifieds cause they think it sucks but instead to off it they insist that they would never part with this gem if it weren't a life or death situation.

 

[Les Zombie]

Lets make a rule that we wont buy from anybody that has a tragic story like the cat needs anal probe or a surgery, unless they post a doctors letter, i want every body to be honest around here. Even if it means they have to admit they think their gear sucks.

 

[James Lugo]

I get the selling for financial reasons, what I don't get is saying that when it's really cuz you don't like the amp. You see the adds 'I'm selling the amp for financial reasons and I just had it retubed'. Suspect.... Retubed is code word for I hate the amp and gave it one last shot with new tubes... I see through that veiled attempt. It's ok to hate an amp after you just buy it or have owned it for years. There are a ton of amps on here that people love that when I played them I thought they sucked and vice versa, there maybe something I love the another hates. With all that said what I don't understand is the constant amp flipper. That is a strange and illusive beast to me. To me after a while it's just like 'pick a damn side and make some f**kin music'. I mean really it's only rock-n-roll.

 

[Anonymous]

what I don't understand is the constant amp flipper. That is a strange and illusive beast to me. To me after a while it's just like 'pick a damn side and make some f**kin music'. I mean really it's only rock-n-roll.

EhHmmm......

 

[rupe]

I think the OP's point was simply to address the irresponsibility of buying gear when a person can't afford it. Yeah, things come up, shit happens, etc, etc. Knowing that things can happen, the "right" thing to do is have some savings put aside to handle those occassions. I would say that in the majority of instances where a person needs to sell something in $500 - $2000 range simply to make ends meet that they likely didn't plan well. Then again, when "issues" begin to stack up, sometimes the best planning is rendered ineffective and things must be sold.

 

[stephen sawall]

Personally I could never figure out why people leave any story when selling something ? It often sounds like some kind of apology or something ?
Half the time I feel like I am being lied to or whatever .... Why don't they just say "I hate this thing .... someone that likes it buy it." or "This is not for me = 4sale." ?

If someone is $2000 dollars from having real money problems and buying gear I can imagine they have a lot more problems than money ?

 

[James Lugo]

what I don't understand is the constant amp flipper. That is a strange and illusive beast to me. To me after a while it's just like 'pick a damn side and make some f**kin music'. I mean really it's only rock-n-roll.

EhHmmm......

Maybe I shouldn't have wrote that but it's what I feel but that doesn't go for guys who flip a lot of amps for what seems like a side business venture for them. To me the majority of guys on here are all high gain guys, so if you've owned a Diezel, Bogner, Marshall, Mesa, Splawn, modded Marshall type or an SLO and none of them do it for you maybe it's time for a reevaluation.

 

[stephen sawall]

what I don't understand is the constant amp flipper. That is a strange and illusive beast to me. To me after a while it's just like 'pick a damn side and make some f**kin music'. I mean really it's only rock-n-roll.

EhHmmm......

Maybe I shouldn't have wrote that but it's what I feel but that doesn't go for guys who flip a lot of amps for what seems like a side business venture for them. To me the majority of guys on here are all high gain guys, so if you've owned a Diezel, Bogner, Marshall, Mesa, Splawn, modded Marshall type or an SLO and none of them do it for you maybe it's time for a reevaluation.

I am sure many people have thought similar things ? .... It has always reminded me of women that buy a lot of shoes. I would guess for many of them flipping amps it is more like a hobby than anything ? That or they are like me and have a secret crush on the UPS person ?