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Re: Anybody Have Guilts About Game-Used Collecting
So far, most of the guilt feelings discussed have related to money - whether you could be doing something "more worthwhile", whether for yourself or someone else, with the bucks you spend on the hobby...but another "guilt feelings" aspect just occurred to me.
A number of years ago, I bought an old game-used Dwayne Murphy gamer from a guy in the media who knew all the DBacks bat boys at the time, and was always getting bats from them to put on eBay or sell directly to me; Murphy was a DBacks coach at the time. The bat was obviously from Murphy's playing days, and I was told that the bat boy had "asked him for one of his old bats", and Murphy had brought this bat from home, presumably from his own collection, and given it to the bat boy...who immediately sold it to me for fifty bucks.
Now, I suspect that Murphy would not have been quite so eager to give away one of his old gamers to the kid, if he'd known that the kid was just going to turn around and sell it - is that fair to say? So, even though I don't think that I necessarily did anything wrong in the situation...I still felt somewhat funny about it, and still do. It's not like I recruited the bat boy to get one of Murphy's bats, or anything like that; still, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the bat coming to me the way it did. Do you know what I mean?
So far, most of the guilt feelings discussed have related to money - whether you could be doing something "more worthwhile", whether for yourself or someone else, with the bucks you spend on the hobby...but another "guilt feelings" aspect just occurred to me.
A number of years ago, I bought an old game-used Dwayne Murphy gamer from a guy in the media who knew all the DBacks bat boys at the time, and was always getting bats from them to put on eBay or sell directly to me; Murphy was a DBacks coach at the time. The bat was obviously from Murphy's playing days, and I was told that the bat boy had "asked him for one of his old bats", and Murphy had brought this bat from home, presumably from his own collection, and given it to the bat boy...who immediately sold it to me for fifty bucks.
Now, I suspect that Murphy would not have been quite so eager to give away one of his old gamers to the kid, if he'd known that the kid was just going to turn around and sell it - is that fair to say? So, even though I don't think that I necessarily did anything wrong in the situation...I still felt somewhat funny about it, and still do. It's not like I recruited the bat boy to get one of Murphy's bats, or anything like that; still, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the bat coming to me the way it did. Do you know what I mean?
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