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lol if you're 30 and let a 60 year old yank something out your hands c'mon son
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/129559053/1-raccoon-penis-bone-baculum-racoon-love
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Dec 31, 2015 00:14
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I've had very good luck buying and selling rare-ish motorcycle parts on eBay.
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Dec 31, 2015 00:32
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I went a garage sale and got some mega strategy guide to the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for $0.50. It's an exhaustive 400 page tome with stats on every thing in the game, maps of every location, walkthroughs of every quest, a comprehensive detailing of all loot found everywhere, and more. It's a hilarious shrine to Gaming Autism made better by the fact the author constantly cracks 4th wall breaking jokes in the text. Great value 10/10 purchase.
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Dec 31, 2015 00:39
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Dunno OP, I got a used motherboard for fixing up my thinkpad for about $180. It's a big ol' brick of a W530 and still better than most current laptops on the market, which was a hell of a deal to save this beast.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Right about then was when I realized to myself "gently caress this poo poo, I can emulate anything up to a PS1 on my PSP/phone/computer/tablet" and gave up on retro gaming poo poo. I have my NES and if I find some cheapo games, great, but I'm not paying $20 for a beat-up copy of Legend of Zelda or anything. whenever im overpowered by an elderly woman my first reactionary thought is also 'no big deal i can emulate that experience on a computer anyway'
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Dec 31, 2015 01:15
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flakeloaf posted:Their global shipping program is really convenient for the US seller because he just has to send his defective poo poo to Kentucky and then ebay sends it to Canada at the buyer's expense for twice what it'd normally cost. It sucks for the US seller when that defective poo poo is mailed directly back to him and he gets assessed an import tax at his own border because the buyer refused to lie on the customs declaration. The Global Shipping Program is the dumbest thing they've ever done and is pretty much the main reason I don't waste money on poo poo while I'm drunk anymore. It's a good thing for me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's decreasing eBay's Canadian buyers. extra stout posted:anyway: in terms of cornering a niche market, etsy is a cool concept but also a loving joke, go pull it up right now and 3/4 of everything is chinese factory junk pretending to be part of the hand made community. so to sell on etsy you have to essentially attach your real life personality to it, make some awkward blog, and prove that you're really making the hello kitty christmas tree lights you're selling or people won't trust it Etsy is great for handmade stuff at good prices (because the members are usually new and don't price their stuff as high as they should/could
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Dec 31, 2015 01:22
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extra stout posted:whenever im overpowered by an elderly woman my first reactionary thought is also 'no big deal i can emulate that experience on a computer anyway' lol I'm imagining you as you yank a box of old video games away from, and then end up in a shouting match with, a white-haired old lady in the driveway of a stranger's house in broad daylight, surrounded by other people looking at baby clothes and novelty plates. I've actually seen similar things before, it was pretty hilarious. When I worked at Radio Shack I got to see a 70+ year old woman pepper spray some dude over a Wii on Black Friday. She sprayed him for like 5 seconds too it was brutal
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Dec 31, 2015 01:53
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you guys remember in 40 year old virgin when the love interest has an ebay drop off store? i used to work at one of those lol
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Dec 31, 2015 02:16
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Professor Shark posted:It's a good thing for me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's decreasing eBay's Canadian buyers. It unquestionably is because it's total garbage for us. The whole point of asking you guys to ship us things using only the USPS is to take a chance that the package could make it across the border without being assessed duties and brokerage; the GSP guarantees we always pay the highest possible combination of both.
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Dec 31, 2015 02:19
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I buy something and 30 days later I get a plastic replica of what I don't remember purchasing.
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Dec 31, 2015 02:22
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Yeah it's loving awful. A few US sellers who I thought were cool and I made deals with exchanged small talk with ended up banning canadian buyers because "too many complaints about shipping prices" after they refused to ever not use that awful system. I used to buy a poo poo load of stuff on ebay, only got hit with customs once and it was because it was well over $200. But anything less, never.
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Dec 31, 2015 02:23
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'Buy it now' turning it from auctions into marketplace, and then China
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Dec 31, 2015 02:42
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theultimo posted:gently caress the retro bubble lol if you didn't already download an emulator and download a rom for every game ever made a decade ago.
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Dec 31, 2015 02:56
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Doctor Butts posted:lol if you didn't already download an emulator and download a rom for every game ever made a decade ago. also lol if you didn't spend an hour playing two or three games that you used to love and then never touch them again because games from 20 years ago suck rear end
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Dec 31, 2015 03:49
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Ehud posted:you guys remember in 40 year old virgin when the love interest has an ebay drop off store? so got any stories?
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Dec 31, 2015 04:08
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Doctor Butts posted:lol if you didn't already download an emulator and download a rom for every game ever made a decade ago. I remember downloading loads of roms around xmas 1999 or 2000. it was fun. i doubt it would be fun to play nes in 2015.
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Dec 31, 2015 04:12
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you can get crazy deals on designer clothes on ebay if you don't mind buying preowned and a lot of wholesalers of new stuff for more mainstream brands it's also great for used photo gear ebay is great for niche stuff if you're knowledgeable about what is and isn't a good deal which usually you have to be buying stuff that is too expensive for uneducated idiots to blind buy and try to resell, but I still probably buy one or two items off ebay a month
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Dec 31, 2015 04:49
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I like playing roms of difficult NES games on my keyboard and feeling like I have hooks for hands
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Dec 31, 2015 04:50
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the problem is that you look like the type of person a 60 year old woman decides she can safely yank a box away from with no reprisal it's not about what you'll do after the fact, it's that you didn't mean mug the gently caress out of her when she was stepping up to you
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Dec 31, 2015 04:55
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goat manilla posted:There's apparently a new thing with hipsters who are less of an SJW and more of a hearltess "grey area" criminal. They travel the country and go into every Goodwill and buy poo poo and re-sell it on ebay, craigslist and whatever that new hipster knick knack selling app is. That's probably what all that is. Ebay is just stuff shipped directly from china, used phones or Goodwill knick knacks anymore. Every so often, I'll see a couple of people at library book sales and Goodwills with something that looks like a barcode reader/smartphone or something scanning the ISBN codes on books before deciding to take them or not. I figured this was part of some book value app or something that they were buying up stuff to flip. I think I actually pissed one of them off one time because when I saw them I went to an area they hadn't gotten to yet and picked up a few books.
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Dec 31, 2015 04:56
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I sell on Ebay as a part of my job. A lot of people are douches or don't understand what they're buying. Some dude bought an iPhone 5c and complained that the item was not genuine because Verizon didn't have sim trays. Like wtf? And I have to refund those assholes because consistently Ebay will side with them pretty much regardless. Some dude is returning his phone because the flash is too bright, and therefore defective. You gently caress asses! PS if anyone knows better places to sell electronics online id appreciate the intel
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Dec 31, 2015 05:06
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Dont you dare try to cut off my supply of haunted items
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Dec 31, 2015 05:24
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I think ebay is pretty good if you are looking for specific things. Ive bought a bunch of tools for work off ebay . I've never had an issue with a seller, and Ive gotten great deals on alot of stuff that I couldn't find anywhere else
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Dec 31, 2015 05:25
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Back in around '04 or' 05 there were a ton of Judge Judy cases where people were suing because they bought a phone or laptop and ended up just getting a picture of the phone or laptop.
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Dec 31, 2015 05:45
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My mom buys china and has bought Christmas garland off eBay. I just buy discount gift cards.
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criscodisco posted:Back in around '04 or' 05 there were a ton of Judge Judy cases where people were suing because they bought a phone or laptop and ended up just getting a picture of the phone or laptop. I knew someone in high school in 04/05 who pulled the scam a few times to buy oxycontin, I'd forgotten about that.
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Dec 31, 2015 05:47
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It takes a special kind of fucker to buy stuff at Goodwill to knowingly flip for a profit, but I'll admit I wouldn't pass up a really expensive suit to get it tailored since I guess Goodwill is a treasure trove considering employees know fuckall about that kind of stuff.
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Justin Tyme posted:It takes a special kind of fucker to buy stuff at Goodwill to knowingly flip for a profit, but I'll admit I wouldn't pass up a really expensive suit to get it tailored since I guess Goodwill is a treasure trove considering employees know fuckall about that kind of stuff. They seem to have wised up a bit. I know the one near me puts all the stuff with any value behind it's own little counter with an attendant and charge what they've figured out the value is by looking it up on eBay. Plus Goodwill has their own auction site now where a lot of the stuff with any value goes. My cheapskate partner wanted the high end keurig but refused to pay $300 for it, and bought 3 off of the Goodwill auction site, but all 3 arrived refusing to brew. I finally bought him the one he wanted from keurig, because it was cheaper than buying $100 paperweights over and over.
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Dec 31, 2015 06:02
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max4me posted:so got any stories? one time a guy came in wanting to sell erotic audio He gave us an example and it was the creepiest things I've ever heard. It was him and his wife on the cd and he kept comparing his erection to bread rising in the oven. also I went to two eBay Live conferences where people who make their living on eBay are supposed to go and attend seminars, complain about eBay, etc The population was 37% morbidly obese people who had to use carts to get around, but I got to see the b-52's live so that was good
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Dec 31, 2015 06:13
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DId Meg spew some bullshit on the stage?
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Dec 31, 2015 06:15
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Ehud posted:one time a guy came in wanting to sell erotic audio was his bread "rising" from his cart while he was talking to you?
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OctoberBlues posted:DId Meg spew some bullshit on the stage? yeah she would talk about empowering sellers or something I wasn't paying much attention the second year i got to see Huey Lewis and the news That was also the year they played that "Celebrate good times come on" song in every room on a 24/7 loop so just imagine you're listening to that song while swarms of gigantic fat people roll down the hallways of a convention center on their scooters
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Dec 31, 2015 06:18
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Rambling Robot posted:was his bread "rising" from his cart while he was talking to you? maybe we had a lot of gay customers for some reason I helped this one gay guy sell his Nintendo DS so he could have spending money on his vacation to the beach with his boyfriend and to this day that is my proudest contribution to the gay community
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It's me. I'm one of those fuckers who buys stuff at thrift stores and resells on eBay. I'm curious to know why some of you have a problem with that.
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FIRST TIME posted:It's me. I'm one of those fuckers who buys stuff at thrift stores and resells on eBay. I'm curious to know why some of you have a problem with that. I know a lady that collects cans from the garbage and then recycles them for money. Want me to give you her digits? You would make a cute couple.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I know a lady that collects cans from the garbage and then recycles them for money. Want me to give you her digits? You would make a cute couple. Go for it.
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Dec 31, 2015 13:07
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ebay is great for buying things you can't easily buy anywhere else.
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the great deceiver posted:i was doing this 10 years ago You were driving a prius around the US visting every Goodwill and selling what you bought with Letgo 10 years ago? And that was how you made your living? Dang, you're the man.
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FIRST TIME posted:It's me. I'm one of those fuckers who buys stuff at thrift stores and resells on eBay. I'm curious to know why some of you have a problem with that. I don't have a problem with it, I'm just jealous you still have cheap thrift stores. I have a problem with people who try to sell t-shirts for $45 just because they were made in the 80s. So I guess if you do that, I do have a problem with you.
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