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they actually were disrupted -- craigslist
Is Craigslist still a thing? In my area, was the vice city classifieds. The hookers are gone, but so much obviously stolen stuff was posted there.
1: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/craigslist-revenue-...
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I cant believe ebay hasnt been disrupted yet...
They cleaned up their act substantially in the past 3-4 years. There are still scammers, of course, but they seem to be taking action that favors buyers as well. I just don't see how they can protect everyone from all the various scams. If they accept all the risk, it will be exploited by scammers.
I really hate Imgur these days. It's yet another site that treats landscape mode as some alien thing that no one uses. More importantly, whoever bought them is so focused on "showing the next thing" that the wrong swipe in the wrong area just obliterated whatever you're looking at or trying to read. It's just a giant bag of dicks in terms of poor interface programming and testing. Seriously wish the author published…
This is the first time I've seen a blog-type entry there. I understand the appeal, though, as it doesn't even require an account to create it.
I sold a laptop on eBay once long, long ago. Someone did the "Buy it now" option but never paid. I'm trying to remember the exact situation (probably more than 10 years ago), but I had exchanged messages with him several times and he always had an excuse to not pay. Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing s…
I cant believe ebay hasnt been disrupted yet...
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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…
damn.
I really hate Imgur these days. It's yet another site that treats landscape mode as some alien thing that no one uses. More importantly, whoever bought them is so focused on "showing the next thing" that the wrong swipe in the wrong area just obliterated whatever you're looking at or trying to read. It's just a giant bag of dicks in terms of poor interface programming and testing. Seriously wish the author published…
I'm not sure how they made money though. And I think there was some drama between Imgur and Reddit, with Reddit going off doing their own thing in terms of image hosting. I think they went as far as breaking Imgur links in Reddit as well?
This left Imgur in the lurch a bit, scrambling to find a reason to exist. It's like asking the pass-the-butter-robot from Rick&Morty to find something else to justify it's existence with. They just tried to become another social media site a-la 9gag et al and the weird part for me is there are people that actually use it non ironically.
I sold a laptop on eBay once long, long ago. Someone did the "Buy it now" option but never paid. I'm trying to remember the exact situation (probably more than 10 years ago), but I had exchanged messages with him several times and he always had an excuse to not pay. Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing s…
I cant believe ebay hasnt been disrupted yet...
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I cant believe ebay hasnt been disrupted yet...
For those in europe - check out vinted.com
I sold a laptop on eBay once long, long ago. Someone did the "Buy it now" option but never paid. I'm trying to remember the exact situation (probably more than 10 years ago), but I had exchanged messages with him several times and he always had an excuse to not pay. Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing s…
I cant believe ebay hasnt been disrupted yet...
As far as I remember ebay hand waved at everything, especially scam.
Allegro is getting enshitiffied nowadays since it was bought by VC.
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For those in europe - check out vinted.com
Vinted seems popular amongst people who never used eBay for buying and selling commodities like clothes. Is it any good for selling higher value specialist stuff like electronics, musical instruments etc?
Each of those three claims to be the largest one in some metric.