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Post by yellow_postit »

ktm5j wrote: post #182
rgovostes wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just remember eBay has almost no way to report scam listings, hacked seller accounts, obviously fraudulent buyers, etc. They don’t want to clean up their act. Caveat emptor. Two executives were recently imprisoned over harassing a journalist, to give you an idea of the corporate culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

> The Steiners were harassed and threatened both online and physically in their home by deliveries of such things as a bloody pig mask, live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and large orders of pizza.[5][1][6] Pornographic magazines with David Steiner’s name on them were sent to a neighbor’s house. Wow, what disgusting human beings..

And one of the execs then went on to lead a Boys and Girls club per Wikipedia. Wild.

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Post by yellow_postit »

segmondy wrote: post #64
kgilpin wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my kids’ generation (college aged) they all use Facebook Marketplace.

ebay is still useful for obscure stuff. if you want to buy used servers, GPU, electronics, car parts, etc. I don't think ebay and FB MP really overlapped, MP ate craigslist. The closest thing to eating ebay is Aliexpress.

It’s quite good for jewelry and fashion items — their certification program is legitimate from all the digging I’ve done.

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Post by throwaway290 »

paxys wrote: post #213
throwaway290 wrote: post #150

TL;DR it's great to have a dad who can "borrow" you 10k bucks on very short notice!

I can guarantee that you have an instant >$10K line of credit from every major bank in the country. Where are all your successful businesses then?

I'll let you know once I degrade to making dick sites and calling them "successful businesses":)

But if we stop with trolling yeah I have some ideas that could benefit from instant $10k and I don't have a rich dad or credit and I gotta live with it as one does!

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Post by pc86 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #178
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #112

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>I'm often unconvinced with arguments like "marketing is about fulfilling a customer's needs" or "adding efficiency to the market". This product is actually an ideal case for marketing, because most people weren't aware that a product like this existed. The best ads notify you about something you genuinely want to buy. What you're really complaining about is astroturfing , not marketing. The more dubious sort of mark…

I mean Coca-Cola is junk food, it's unhealthy and we know it is. They advertise to maintain the illusion that it leads to success and happiness. They can't afford for scientific understanding to win over the brainwashing of 'brand advertising'as that would be the death knell for the company (or 99% of it).

Not a single human being alive in the world believes that drinking Coca-Cola "leads to success and happiness."

Coke advertises so that when you're in the store or a gas station and you think "maybe I'll get a soda" you think of Coke before Pepsi. They advertise so that someone starting a restaurant thinks to buy the Coke syrup before they think to buy the Pepsi syrup.

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Post by gbradybulls »

OJFord wrote: post #49
dakiol wrote: post #12

Perhaps I missed it, but at what point the author sets an LLC or something similar? For me, that’s the main blocker: in Europe it costs money to start a business, some paperwork and taxes is involved, even if you don’t make a single sale. Also, for selling online you kinda have to show in your website your “business id” (or tax id or similar)… otherwise how do people know you are a legit business? For example, I’m no…

Certainly doesn't in the UK, are you sure that's true where you are? Here incorporating as an ltd (limited liability) costs I think £25, but you can start a business as a sole trader without any kind of fee or registration (just a de facto status requiring declaring the income on your personal tax return).

unfortunately in the UK it's considerably more complicated to dissolve a company than it is to start one, even if it has few very assets and no debt

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Post by jvanderbot »

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…

Bravery is just stupidity that worked.

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Post by bratwurst3000 »

Beijinger wrote: post #107
segmondy wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ebay is still useful for obscure stuff. if you want to buy used servers, GPU, electronics, car parts, etc. I don't think ebay and FB MP really overlapped, MP ate craigslist. The closest thing to eating ebay is Aliexpress.

I found ebay more reliable, interesting and smoother than Amazon. Amazon screwed me over for 40 USD now they are nagging that I should sign up for "Prime" (I ordered a bunch of stuff, maybe 800 USD. They decided the order is fraudulent, and canceled it, without ever telling me. When I moved into my new place, there was nothing. No sheets, no nothing from Amazon. That this order was "canceled" without any email seemed…

yeah amazon is rly weird. did had prime and cancelled it but the cancellation was retracted 3 times in the background and i had to pay 3 months more prime… never ever.. now its only expensive aliexpress and some netflix

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Post by mtgentry »

rgovostes wrote: post #94
oaththrowaway wrote: post #19

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…

Just remember eBay has almost no way to report scam listings, hacked seller accounts, obviously fraudulent buyers, etc. They don’t want to clean up their act. Caveat emptor. Two executives were recently imprisoned over harassing a journalist, to give you an idea of the corporate culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

Last year, I accidentally canceled a return request after realizing I was being scammed by the seller. eBay refused to refund my money because the request had been canceled, even though the return address provided by the seller was fake. I wrote letters to two state consumer protection agencies and that worked. I eventually got my money back.
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