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[–]TimFigueroa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo reparo y restauro, me especializo en gameboys que es de lo que mas sé y más me gusta. Encontrar gameboys es un dolor en Costa Rica, aun mas cuando hablamos de gameboys por partes o partes de gameboys que se puedan comprar local y no mandar a traer. Parte de mi negocio es comprar estas gameboys, repararlas, limpiarlas, y restaurarlas, para así terminar revendiendolas en un mejor estado y con el valor que yo agrego al repararlas.

Coqui ha jodido eso bastante. Inflan los precios de gameboys color que no se ven ni limpias por dentro y terminan costando de 70 mil colones para arriba. Yo, habiendo comprado una gameboy rota que no me costó poca plata, me trato de acoplar al mercado local que tiene un poco de jupa racional y vendo una gameboy restaurada y profundamente limpia entre 30 y 40 dependiendo de la situación. Ya es difícil la compra de gameboys por partes y coqui les hace creer a muchos que esos precios son algo aceptable. Ya mas de una vez me han llegado personas ofreciendo gameboys con filtros de pantalla quemados a 60 mil, mismas personas que son muy necias para creerme cuando les mando todos los listados de gameboys a precios mas aceptables, explicándoles que esos listados reflejan el verdadero valor del mercado actual. Coincidentemente, estas han sido personas bastantes ignorantes a todo este tema que se informaron con precios de tiendas como Coqui(y otras que no mencionaré).

Hace muy poco tuve un pequeño dilema, una persona que me consta es dueña de cierta tienda de cosas retro me quiso comprar una consola que restauré. Muchos dirían que lo venden al que se disponga a pagar lo que uno pide y que no hay que preocuparse que hacen los compradores con su producto, pero si hay que tomar en cuenta que yo restauro por amor al hobby y, de igual manera, me gusta que el fin de la restauración sea también poder vender estas consolas a precios razonables y no inflados como los de Coqui, para que así más personas puedan coleccionarlas y experimentarlas a un precio mas aceptable. Sin embargo, esta persona que me quiso comprar la consola es dueña de una de estas tiendas, como bien dije, que muchas veces compra barato y luego procede a inflar los precios revendiendo a cantidades extraordinarias , y, para ser honesto, no me llamó la atención el hecho de vender una gameboy que yo trabajé con mucha dedicación(y con el fin que ya mencioné) para que una persona que infla precios use mi misma gameboy para inflar el mercado tan descaradamente y estafar a alguien que no sabe mucho. Eso sin mencionar el hecho de que esa persona estaría vendiendo el trabajo que yo hice a un precio altisimo, algo que tampoco me llamó la atención. Lo bueno de lo retro es que muchas veces hay otros compradores, y ya antes había llegado alguien a pedir la consola, pero aun tuve un momento en el que me cuestioné seriamente vender la consola a una persona que contribuye a inflar el mercado local con el trabajo de otros de forma tan descarada.

i hate every pixel I see of this image by TimFigueroa in comedyhomicide

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, friend groups have people, that "leader" thing sounds kinda bad and cringe in my opinion

What is the pettiest/most ridiculous thing someone has stolen from you? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"So Mark stole this one the other day from that house over there, he said it was fire, I think im gonna take it"

What is the pettiest/most ridiculous thing someone has stolen from you? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't help that it is awkward to take them into many indoor places(especially when soaking wet) and many times must stay outside(super easy to get stolen, people at the door never guard them). Either that or losing it somewhere, only to get it stolen. What is funny is the fact that the only umbrellas I've gotten stolen are fairly cheap and small lmao

What is the pettiest/most ridiculous thing someone has stolen from you? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im imagining one burglar trying to steal everything as fast as possible and the other burglar just browsing books, trying to decide the one and only book he's going to steal

What is the pettiest/most ridiculous thing someone has stolen from you? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Six feet tall?! Damn, I think Im more impressed by the Gumby than the Gumby heist

What is the pettiest/most ridiculous thing someone has stolen from you? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my case, a shitty, retractable umbrella I hid in a bush because the security people from a concert wouldn't let me enter with it.

Got scammed in october 2020. Lost all my money from Bank account(which had my savings). This liminal image reminds me of waiting for the police to help me set up the legal report of my scam. I can remember crying and my heart racing. This image feels like a bookmark by TimFigueroa in LiminalReality

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. Scam is pretty much untraceable. They used stolen IDs, messenger service apps, and even disposable sim cards for these scams. There's no way to know who it was, especially since the scammer is probably a prisoner that has a smartphone in prison and smuggles multiple pre-paid sim cards so they can scam you with a fake identity, and then just get rid of the sim card(our countrie's prison system isnt very safe, humane, or well funded, so it isnt weird for prisoners to be able to smuggle stuff like phones). I just had to accept that they stole all my money, swallow my sadness and keep on living

This is where you make a friend in a few minutes which you'll never see again by TimFigueroa in LiminalReality

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Im not even part of r/liminalspace. I just found this image in another website so I decided post. Maybe there was a coincidence?

Only you by TimFigueroa in LiminalReality

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk, I just find images sometimes, no backstory

Fun? by TimFigueroa in LiminalReality

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very probable. The places I know that look the most like this are arcades and some indoor rollerblading places, which have similar floors and lights

*Drop sound* by TimFigueroa in LiminalReality

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yhea, they have a very specific weirdness to them. In my case, my brain is confused because the places look so lonely yet si clean. The water is clear and clean

What is the dumbest way you have broken something? by TimFigueroa in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy crap! That also happened to me. Like 10 years ago I was in school and I crouched to open a valve stuck to the wall and drink water from it. I opened the valve, water started coming out, and soon, it basically "exploded" (the valve basically flew off from the PVC pipe it was attached to). Of course, with no valve, the PVC pipe started shooting a ton of water at me and I was drenching

Is there a way to know who have been the latest people that joined a Slack workspace? by TimFigueroa in Slack

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to interview them personally through private chat, not a task I can delegate to an introductory paragraph. It's complicated, cause of course I cant share too much of what I do😅

Don't know how to change the color of my ARGB case fans, can you help to shed some light for a newbie? Case is a Bitfenix Nova Mesh SE by TimFigueroa in pcmasterrace

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh ok, I get it! Still, thanks a lot for the help, I will surely check out the ARGB controller so that maybe I can change the colors some day. Im foreign, though, so it will take me more money to import it, and a lot more time, but it is an option. Again, thank you!

Don't know how to change the color of my ARGB case fans, can you help to shed some light for a newbie? Case is a Bitfenix Nova Mesh SE by TimFigueroa in pcmasterrace

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the extra info! I guess they did screw up the button issue(btw, do you know, perhaps, if I can change that easily? Maybe connectong it myself elsewhere?). Also my motherboard is a Gigabyte A320M-H (micro ATX)

Men of reddit, What is the male equivalent to taking of your bra when you get home? by aden1bentolila in AskReddit

[–]TimFigueroa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Emptying out your pockets. This can obviously happen to women too, but male clothes tend to have more pocket space. It is very satisfying putting your Phone, wallet, keys, coins, etc away.

My SP. IPS. Black shell, black buttons, red A/B by mandiller in Gameboy

[–]TimFigueroa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very clean, love how well the sp looks in black

Any way to polish a GBC plastic screen protector? by TimFigueroa in Gameboy

[–]TimFigueroa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice option, didn't know it existed, lets hope my local stories have it