It's burning $5 in gas and $20 in time to go to a store further away and save $25 on a sale item. And then proudly bragging "I'm not like those idiots who pay full price!"

OP didn't find a record...he found a $1300 arbitrage, then decided to spend the proceeds on the record by keeping it.

In other words, this is why selling stuff to consumers is a nightmare.

You have to trick them into believing they "won one over" on everybody else, via discounting and promotions, no matter if ultimately they're the ones losing by spending hours of their time jumping through hoops on a product that they legitimately value at full price.

If you decline to sell a thing for an easy 1300, doesn't that mean you value it at 1300 or more?

The disease of financialization at work. Money is all that matters to people, everything is converted into money. It's only value is what you could get from selling it, and/or what you spent to acquire it.

Like those weird fuckers who buy $200k supercars so they can sit in a damn garage. (She said, having put 30k miles on a Corvette inside of 3 years)