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Re: I made $100K from a dick joke

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Post by gadders »

probably_wrong wrote: post #21

I don't have a great opinion of marketing in general and therefore I'm often unconvinced with arguments like "marketing is about fulfilling a customer's needs" or "adding efficiency to the market". Therefore I feel vindicated when a moderately-upvoted post says the quiet part out loud, namely, "Yeah, we made a fake post and just lied to everyone on the internet. I'm not sorry, because not only was it popular - it bec…

I think a few years back someone examined the JS of one of those "XX people are looking at this product right now" or "ZZZ from YYY just purchased this product" and saw that it was basically randomly generated.

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Post by robertlagrant »

AndyKelley wrote: post #115

> Yeah, we made a fake post and just lied to everyone on the internet. I'm not sorry, because not only was it popular - it became the top post of the day. this is why we need better societal guardrails in place against lies... people will just do this kind of crap otherwise. I mean look at politics right now, it's a complete disaster in terms of information accuracy. lies are too powerful to be (un)regulated by the f…

What you need is a ministry of truth to tell what's true and what's not.

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Post by okasaki »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #154
nosioptar wrote: post #116

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Last time I ordered from amazon, I repeatedly declined prime. My bank called me the next day about a suspicious charge for a year of prime. I had to cancel my card and get a new one. The banker told me they'd had dozens of similar problems where amazon was charging people for stuff they never ordered. When I got the package a few days later, the $150+ set of cello strings I ordered, sold and shipped by amazon, were c…

Amazon is the American version of Temu, Aliexpress, etc nowadays; I wouldn't use it for anything but their own products (Kindle). For specialist items like the cello strings you mentioned, music shops are thankfully still a thing, both online/webshops as irl ones. I'd go there instead. Same with books.

It's much worse than aliexpress. Ali won't send you used items or returned bricks.

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Post by [deleted] »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #51
oaththrowaway wrote: post #22

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Just makes me more cynical about everything I see posted. Marketers ruin everything eventually

>Marketers ruin everything eventually You need to follow that chain of thought a little further. The unfortunate weak spot in a capitalist economy is that it's basically a Darwinistic system where the fittest survive, and "fit" means willing to do anything to make a dollar. Morals therefore become a weakness, and those who are guided by morals will be stomped out by those who don't really care. The guardrails are mad…

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Re: I made $100K from a dick joke

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Post by agmater »

veunes wrote: post #158

SHIPYOURENEMIESGLITTER is amazing idea!!! I already hav a list of people who would really "enjoy" such a letter!

Not so amazing, you're essentially earning money by helping people bully others anonymously. Probably some collateral damage (i.e. delivery) as well. Its just mean. OPs product is much better in that it can be seen by the recipient as funny, and edible at the least.

Re: I made $100K from a dick joke

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Post by sandworm101 »

potato3732842 wrote: post #95
seattle_spring wrote: post #77

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That’s what I was thinking too. There are whole subreddits setup to work this kind of hustle. These people see nothing wrong with what they do, even going so far as to claim that they’re doing a service to the world. In my eyes, they’re bottom-feeding scum no better than scalpers, car salespeople, or MLM huns.

"Pure" flippers and drop shippers who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy and a great argument against equivalent financial products.

>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy...

Like grocery stores? Department stores? Costco? Buying in bulk and selling smaller lots to consumers over time is the definition of retail sales.

If you want to eliminate middlemen and buy only from manufacturers, you better first know/learn chinese, japanese, french, german and spanish. And get a forklift. Most only ship product by the pallet.

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Post by jenscow »

sandworm101 wrote: post #167
potato3732842 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Pure" flippers and drop shippers who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy and a great argument against equivalent financial products.

>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy... Like grocery stores? Department stores? Costco? Buying in bulk and selling smaller lots to consumers over time is the definition of retail sales. If you want to eliminate middlemen and buy only from manufacturers, you better first know/learn chinese, japanese, french, german and spanish. And get a forkli…

> who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing the ...

I think they're saying that is the value added work, which they don't do.

Re: I made $100K from a dick joke

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Post by wasmitnetzen »

sandworm101 wrote: post #167
potato3732842 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Pure" flippers and drop shippers who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy and a great argument against equivalent financial products.

>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy... Like grocery stores? Department stores? Costco? Buying in bulk and selling smaller lots to consumers over time is the definition of retail sales. If you want to eliminate middlemen and buy only from manufacturers, you better first know/learn chinese, japanese, french, german and spanish. And get a forkli…

You might want to re-read that post you quoted, your snipped quote inverts the intended meaning.
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