[Masterminor]

I redeemed $5 Amazon code from Lucktastic. It took a RIDICULOUS amount of time and effort, mostly chance and luck. So I'm selling it for 750 FC.

See edit in later post.

[oldbuddy]

Why would anyone buy a $5 card from you for $7.50 worth of Forum Coin? You need to rethink your price.

[Masterminor]

Because I used a ridiculous amount of time on getting it from lucktastic. It took almost a whole year! I read that you can only redeem $20 from fc to Amazon. So if you only want $5 it can save you a lot of time posting. I'm going by how much time I spent trying to obtain the code.

[Jinglebells]

Why would anyone buy a $5 card from you for $7.50 worth of Forum Coin? You need to rethink your price.

I agree, I don't really care how long it took to earn it, as I wouldn't have spent that much time earning a card. Like you , I would have to pass on this one.. A $5 amazon card here, would cost me only 500 forum coins, as would Paypal, honestly paypal is worth more to me than the amazon.

[spiderdust]

I think you're going to have a hard time selling that at 150% of the price. The value to others isn't what time you spent earning it, it's how much it costs to buy one outright and how much time would be spent earning one themselves.

[darkthorn]

Why would anyone buy a $5 card from you for $7.50 worth of Forum Coin? You need to rethink your price.

I agree with you oldbuddy, honestly Masterminor your proposal doesn't make any sense in my head. Why would I spend $7.50 for a $5 card? Imagine I want to buy an item that costs $20 on Amazon, with your card I still would have to pay Amazon $15, in the end I would be paying $15 + $7.50 , so I would spend $22.5 on that item instead of the initial $20!

Honestly either is the late hour that is burning my brain or I really don't get it.

[tomford]

why are you punishing us for what you went through, a extreme markup would make sense if amazon cards were rare but the fact that you can only buy a 20 dollar one here doesn't make it rare on ptc sites in general. I can get a amazon card on all the sites I use. either you want the code or you don't just use what happened as a learning lesson and not be angry

[Masterminor]

I'm not trying to punish anyone, I didn't really believe it was that much FC. I'm not really angry, just wanted something for all my effort, though considering the drop in FC earned per post, I see 750 FC is not going to be easy to achieve, as one of the beginning members when you earned significantly more per post and had no cap, 750 FC seemed easy. Since I don't even really pay much attention to how much I earn per post and focused on quality, I made a fair amount and assumed it would be easy to make 750 FC. I made this offer with that mindset that I see now was flawed. I'm thinking of actually instead of selling, giving it to a member in exchange for advertising services. Or a significant drop in price.

I'm not unreasonable, but I feel very attacked because some things said here seem very rude to me, I could only be reading it that way because of a recently diagnosed emotional disorder and I can already see the people saying "hey you're just an overemotional teen and if you can't handle, get off the internet. Oh, you have emotional issues? tell it to someone who cares, I want to make money." To those people I tell you firstly that ADULT people have outright started wars from being unable to agree. So age has nothing to do with it.

As for my diagnosis, the information on the specifics is private. But I can tell you that I can be a little bit (ok, a lot) sensitive at times, and sometimes it's called for and sometimes it's not. I'm not trying to call anyone out or nitpick at every little thing, I just want everyone to know that I'm not the only one, and FC needs to be safe for everyone. While some posters above and in other threads are respectful, some just give unnecessary information like "see that mistake there? I laughed" Ok, you laughed, how does that help me? All that would do is make me personally hate myself for that one mistake. I understand that this i a pretty laid back forum, I'm pretty laid back too, but also somewhat sensitive because things like my example trigger me in ways I will only discuss with my Counselor.

I realize this is a huge tangent, but it's my way of asking some of the community to not be so unnecessarily rude and extreme. If that doesn't fly with you, then don't talk to me, simple. I just want to contribute, but not need to go through h*** to do it.

Back on track: I will be offering the code in exchange for advertisement services or a more reasonable amount of FC (I'll take suggestions and negotiations into account on both options)

[oldbuddy]

I say let's give you the benefit of any doubt and put it behind us on both sides. If you want to cool the torches, maybe lower the price in light of the recent changes or just withdraw it and start over. Good luck with your therapy and I hope you improve quickly.

[Masterminor]

I agree. Maybe 550? Would that be much better or no?

[spiderdust]

I think you'll find that no one will be willing to pay more than the value of the item. That's how things work. I'm sorry that you feel attacked, but what you're suggesting is that people pay you more than $5 for $5.

[CyberFreak]

People may be willing to pay 550 for it for the following reasons:

We offer a $20 Amazon GC code but users who do not have the required FC for it may want a smaller one and therefore be willing to pay a little over the value to get the smaller one rather than wait to earn enough for the $20 GC. Secondly if a user exchanges their FC for PayPal money, they will typically get $4.50 after PayPal fees anyway so users are willing to pay a little more FC for less real $.

[Hugop]

It is a fair price for 550FC. You can get $5 PayPal - a fee for 500FC and for our Amazon code 2000FC for $20. Instead of waiting, you could buy a smaller amount here for a small fee of 50FC. Well, up to you to buy it or not.