Author Topic: Pinball Moral Dilema  (Read 704 times)

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Offline pinnies4me

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2013, 07:30:17 PM »

Interesting stuff - there's no right moral answer (and I was neither party to this situation).

Of course, the legal answer is about as black and white as they come - the games were sold even if they were "mate's rates".

What prompted the sale was the expectation that comes along with the "I really want those games" - so the seller passes on his bargain pick-ups to someone that he believes genuinely wants to keep them.

I know I would not feel good about telling another collector that they were games I really wanted, then flipping them for a profit, without at least mentioning it to the original buyer and seeing his reaction.

I guess the amount of time plays a big part - five years down the track, its a whole different market as someone mentioned. But if it was a year or less, the question of what is "right" looms I feel.

“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”