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Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay

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Re: Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay

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> bought 10 extra copies and sold the CD keys on ebay for about 3x retail pricing > ebay withdrew the money from my account and refunded it to the buyers Wicked karma :) When Nexus 4 was launched, I ended up with multiple devices (automated parallel purchases). It gave a lot of joy to sell them at cost (on craigslist) rather than cancel my purchase or pocket the premium they could've fetched.

Karma? That's just good business sense. Buy low sell high.

I think of these practices as "Hoarding" & "Price Gouging" rather than business sense. More like taking advantage of people without adding any value to the trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

Re: Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay

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post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> bought 10 extra copies and sold the CD keys on ebay for about 3x retail pricing > ebay withdrew the money from my account and refunded it to the buyers Wicked karma :) When Nexus 4 was launched, I ended up with multiple devices (automated parallel purchases). It gave a lot of joy to sell them at cost (on craigslist) rather than cancel my purchase or pocket the premium they could've fetched.

Karma? That's just good business sense. Buy low sell high.

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Re: Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay

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Yes, anything that challenges Google's "Don't Be Evil" propaganda is hard for some to swallow. Thankfully, at least some of us don't fall for that kind of bullshit.

We're disagreeing about how Google/YouTube is bad, not fighting over whether it's bad or good. I'm saying that YouTube's Content ID system is over zealous, and you're claiming that it's under zealous.

They already cemented their place as top dog, got everyone to license their content, and now actually profits more when you watch the official versions.
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