Like any bubble, it's gotta pop some day, right?
I'm mostly typing this out cus' I got super pissed about being swindled out of a PC CRT monitor. Paid around 60usd for a monitor that the seller didn't even show any of the physical flaws; just 'untested'. What a load of bullcrap. After I'd bought it, and tried my best restoring it (and failing), I saw a suspicious looking listing from another website. It was the same monitor with the same flaws, sold for 9usd...
This dude bought it and upsold to me nearly 6 times.
One calls it a hustle, I call is absolutely bullcrap. Dude even kept info from me, but in a way that didn't seem like showing any red flags.
After my sheer disappointment, I just came back to the whole bubble. Why did I pay that much? It's because it's relatively cheaper than other monitors in the market!
God, it all comes back to the market. The market where outsiders glaze popular opinion of retro accessories and gaming bullcrap without actually understanding what makes it truly good or worth getting. I checked the dude's other listings, and he was selling several other WORKING CRT Monitors. Wow, well, why didn't I buy that?
The dude was selling it for 300-400$...!
It's not even a Trinitron or those rare monitors! THEY'RE OFFICE PULLOUTS! But hey, they can play retro games and run windows XP, right? Haha, so retro! I guess he was just lucky to horde these all for himself so he could sell it and I'm not! I'm the schmuck that bought his rejects and wasn't any wiser! It all comes back to the absurd demand for it that rose way too high... A demand that gets people fooling buyers. It used to be so easy, but I didn't have room back then... Makes me wish I bought one before the whole pandemic happened, even if my room was cramped due to the whole stocking of supplies.
Even CRT TVs are rising in absurd price! I remember people begging other people to throw these TVs out. Now, we're in an age where people are begging for these TVs!
I feel, similar to the retro game collecting bubble, CRTs are going to tumble and fall. It's unsustainable. It's the one retro piece of tech that NO BIG company is gonna try to remake. Companies have been bringing back vinyl records and players, cassettes and Walkmans, heck I saw a company try to bring back pagers by combining them with powerbanks for crying out loud. Cathode Rays? Nah. A person could dream, man... I'd love to have a CRT monitor for my retro PC dream setup; but sadly I'm not even a fourth of a way there... and it's all cus of these retro grifters buying out all the crt monitors that were office pullouts for less than a few bucks, and then upselling them for 400usd. There's gotta come a time where people buying these things for that much is absurd, right? It makes me wish for some company to make new tube tech and basically destroy the overinflated prices of CRT monitors. I mean, people are making cases where 'CRTs have faster refresh rate' for pro gamers or some technological excuse like that.
But after the BS I experienced, I feel like I should give up on that dream setup with the current state of CRT prices for now... until then, I'll just fool around with my PS1 on the very same CRT my family kept 20 years ago... It ain't for computers, but it beats having to fight every soy redditor gamer chungus so retro dumbass that parades their prized crts for updoots, only to just not use them for anything else and go back to their main pc rig posted on r/pcmasterrace or something.
But what do you guys think? How easy it is for you guys to get a CRT Monitor? (I'm not American, but I just use approx. USD conversion estimates for ease of reading and relatability).
I'm mostly typing this out cus' I got super pissed about being swindled out of a PC CRT monitor. Paid around 60usd for a monitor that the seller didn't even show any of the physical flaws; just 'untested'. What a load of bullcrap. After I'd bought it, and tried my best restoring it (and failing), I saw a suspicious looking listing from another website. It was the same monitor with the same flaws, sold for 9usd...
This dude bought it and upsold to me nearly 6 times.
One calls it a hustle, I call is absolutely bullcrap. Dude even kept info from me, but in a way that didn't seem like showing any red flags.
After my sheer disappointment, I just came back to the whole bubble. Why did I pay that much? It's because it's relatively cheaper than other monitors in the market!
God, it all comes back to the market. The market where outsiders glaze popular opinion of retro accessories and gaming bullcrap without actually understanding what makes it truly good or worth getting. I checked the dude's other listings, and he was selling several other WORKING CRT Monitors. Wow, well, why didn't I buy that?
The dude was selling it for 300-400$...!
It's not even a Trinitron or those rare monitors! THEY'RE OFFICE PULLOUTS! But hey, they can play retro games and run windows XP, right? Haha, so retro! I guess he was just lucky to horde these all for himself so he could sell it and I'm not! I'm the schmuck that bought his rejects and wasn't any wiser! It all comes back to the absurd demand for it that rose way too high... A demand that gets people fooling buyers. It used to be so easy, but I didn't have room back then... Makes me wish I bought one before the whole pandemic happened, even if my room was cramped due to the whole stocking of supplies.
Even CRT TVs are rising in absurd price! I remember people begging other people to throw these TVs out. Now, we're in an age where people are begging for these TVs!
I feel, similar to the retro game collecting bubble, CRTs are going to tumble and fall. It's unsustainable. It's the one retro piece of tech that NO BIG company is gonna try to remake. Companies have been bringing back vinyl records and players, cassettes and Walkmans, heck I saw a company try to bring back pagers by combining them with powerbanks for crying out loud. Cathode Rays? Nah. A person could dream, man... I'd love to have a CRT monitor for my retro PC dream setup; but sadly I'm not even a fourth of a way there... and it's all cus of these retro grifters buying out all the crt monitors that were office pullouts for less than a few bucks, and then upselling them for 400usd. There's gotta come a time where people buying these things for that much is absurd, right? It makes me wish for some company to make new tube tech and basically destroy the overinflated prices of CRT monitors. I mean, people are making cases where 'CRTs have faster refresh rate' for pro gamers or some technological excuse like that.
But after the BS I experienced, I feel like I should give up on that dream setup with the current state of CRT prices for now... until then, I'll just fool around with my PS1 on the very same CRT my family kept 20 years ago... It ain't for computers, but it beats having to fight every soy redditor gamer chungus so retro dumbass that parades their prized crts for updoots, only to just not use them for anything else and go back to their main pc rig posted on r/pcmasterrace or something.
But what do you guys think? How easy it is for you guys to get a CRT Monitor? (I'm not American, but I just use approx. USD conversion estimates for ease of reading and relatability).