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  Randy Treibel (@RandyTreibel) reported 7 minutes ago

  According to @grok, this card is not numbered. Meaning, there’s no evidence he didn’t wipe the floor or have multiple copies purchased. It’s extremely common for a flipper to buy all variants and reset the comp. Everyone in that thread in favor of this witch hunt is toxic and all deserve to be blocked and even temporarily suspended from @eBay The fact that he said it was delivered when it was not is mildly problematic, but could be true. It’s a seller skill issue to refund here.

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  Brother Shaquille Sunflower (@UsernameLoso) reported 7 minutes ago

  It’s really simple to solve the watch party tot issue @TheGarden has. All you have to do is make the tkts non-transferable, that way resellers have no incentive to buy them up and resell on craigslist, eBay & Eventbrite etc. I’ll take 6 tkts to game 3 for solving this for you

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  **** Hammer (@DickHammer776) reported 10 minutes ago

  @unusual_whales The only ways I can see this GME-eBay deal happening: 1. GameStop loads up on massive new debt (they’ve already lined up $20B financing). 2. GameStop issues a huge amount of new shares — heavily diluting current shareholders and handing significant ownership to eBay holders. 3. eBay has been quietly shopping itself and GameStop is forcing a deal no one else wants. None of these are good outcomes for shareholders on either side. Am I missing a realistic fourth path here?

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  Applehead (@MJ_Applehead7) reported 11 minutes ago

  @yoshijacksons It's bad because they're turning against MJ, at the same time it's good because every MJ merchandise on eBay is gonna go down!

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  James Newhouse (@jamesthelawguy) reported 12 minutes ago

  @whypickname @foursyYT Lego has no problem forcing people who sell legit goods on eBay or Amazon to pull down their listings or risk being sued yet they say nothing about a retail org they clearly sell to who thinks it's ok not to reimburse an old man for a legit consignment.

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  Calious (@Calious) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TheSteadyTurtle @ValueAddedRS @eBay Rather than leave up bad information, wouldn't it be better to take this down? Anyone not reading the replies won't see that you're parroting her joke, and advising people vote with the board?

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  David Dunn (@Stuck_envelope) reported 12 minutes ago

  @itskikidanger See, I and many other's I've known have experienced much different with ebay...And they've always automatically sided with the buyer. Sellers have limited protection there. I can't count how many times ebay has told me to just send the product, and then the seller claims late, broken, not delivered and they automatically refunded the money, so I'm out the money and product...and the appeal process is trash. Usually what happens with Legos is the people running the stores build goodwill within their local communities and operate off their "good name"...but business dies down and then they just close shop and screw everyone over. They only operate on consignment because they can't afford to pay premiums for vaulted/high value sets and then sit on them...I understand that, but the risk is just too high. With the value of some of those sets as it is, I'd never deal on consignment either...Cash in hand always

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  Polymath (@polymathhhhh) reported 13 minutes ago

  The founder of Twitch built his first startup without talking to a single user. It sold on eBay. That's not the exit you want. Here's the lesson that changed everything: Who you talk to matters more than what you ask. When Twitch pivoted into gaming, they did something they'd never done before. They went and talked to users. Not to validate a feature. Not to show a product. Just to understand who was out there and what their lives actually looked like. And the first thing they discovered was this: Talking to viewers gave them one set of feedback. Talking to broadcasters gave them something completely different. Broadcasters determined where viewers went. Follow the broadcaster and the audience follows. That single insight shaped three years of product decisions. They would have missed it entirely if they'd talked to the wrong group. The three groups you should always be talking to: Your own users. Your competitor's users. And non users. Most founders only talk to the first group. That's a trap. Your own users are already tolerating your problems. The fact that they use your product despite its flaws means those flaws probably aren't the most important things to fix. Your competitor's users are more valuable. They know the space. They've tried multiple options. They have real opinions. Converting them is easier than creating new behavior from scratch. But the most important group ? Non users. The people who haven't tried anything yet. They tell you what's blocking the market from growing. What's so broken they won't even try. What would have to change for them to care at all. At Twitch, non users said things like: my computer isn't fast enough. I don't want competitors seeing my tournament strategy. I'd rather edit and upload to YouTube. None of those were feature requests. All of them became product decisions. Twitch bought people computers. Built streaming directly into Xbox and PlayStation 4. None of that came from talking to existing users. All of it came from understanding why people weren't users yet. The question every founder needs to answer before anything else: Before you think about what to build. Before you write a single line of code. Ask yourself: Who are the five types of people I need to talk to ? Not who's easiest to reach. Not who's already on your forum. Who actually has the problem and whose behavior, if you understood it completely, would tell you exactly what to build ? That question changes everything. Everything else comes after.

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  Jake Fuller (@jake____fuller) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gapingmaws Love International Male. I think I have some catalogues somewhere, if I can track them down I can scan and send. I also collect the clothes themselves mostly found in thrift stores or on eBay

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  Tiki 🌴🍹🇺🇸 (@Tikiwe) reported 17 minutes ago

  @nicksortor Confiscate ALL their supplies, down to the plastic crates and the tents. Whatever Law Enforcement & ICE has no need for, sell it on Ebay and buy lunch for the good guys with the proceeds!

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  sprucemoose30 (@sprucemoose304) reported 18 minutes ago

  @BrandonNie43375 @DeItaone Terrible deal for Ebay shareholders, The GME stock they receive would be worth a couple of dollars/share and an even worse for GME shareholders. Even then the combined entity would have so much debt at unfavorable rates, a turnaround would take very long time.

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  michael (@trifecta_king) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DaleJr @Liquids0ldier Ebay is mostly legit and never a problem i ran into.

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  DannyBTalks (Daniel Baldwin) (@DannyBTalks) reported 25 minutes ago

  @DaleJr Am I wrong...or do I recall there being articles about you and eBay being an issue wayyyy back before you ever even joined Twitter? Feels like a memory I have now.

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  Wilson (@Wilson19947653) reported 26 minutes ago

  @spacepixel My issue is PSA and eBay have yet to join in and I suspect their product and reach will be extremely difficult to compete with

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  Gerard Hughes ( @ghhughes.bsky.social ) (@ghhughes) reported 30 minutes ago

  This is a $475 Mark-10 clamp for force testing machines. One of the threaded brass bushings needed to open and close it is stripped. And one of the snap rings needs to be repositioned. The cost to fix it will be a minimum of $105. And that's just for the evaluation fee - even though it just needs a new bushing, and possibly a new threaded rod. All of the repair fees are based on evaluations and repairs for multi-thousand dollar Force testing machines, not for their fixtures. A machinist could recreate the brass bushing. But that would be custom work that could get expensive quickly, and cost more than the high fees at Mark-10. Sigh... You'd think a simple 5" clamp couldn't cost that much money, and that maybe you could get a cheaper one on ebay. And you can. But cheaper force testing clamps are also significantly cheaper quality, while still being very expensive for what they are. I guess they're just such a niche product that companies can charge that much.