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  Willain (@LikeAWillain) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Xbox_SUPERFAN Or maybe people are willing to risk their listings being taken down for something that won’t ship til November. Let’s wait and see how eBay looks then.

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  Alex Phillips (@mypalalex1989) reported 4 minutes ago

  @thelegacyofnerd Unfortunately, one of my go-to places for physical media - F.Y.E. - closed down almost 8 months ago. Target and Best Buy don't sell physical media anymore. I have to pray that either Walmart or Barnes & Noble will have it before Amazon and/or eBay has it.

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  Adam (@AdamChudy) reported 4 minutes ago

  Ebay seller performance is the dumbest system I've ever seen if you are a hobby seller. Marks against you don't just fall off over time. They only improve with more sales. So if you have limited sales, the "low performance" % on some statistic just persists indefinitely. We have a mark over "cases closed without seller resolution". How in the world do we bring that % down as a hobby seller? Are we literally supposed to sell more, to have more cases opened against us, to then resolve them and bring the % down? This makes no sense. And the % calculation goes back literally over a year. And yet we get emails that we need to improve this stat. How @eBay would you propose I bring down a stat that requires more sales AND more cases opened (which is a negative outcome on an even smaller % of sales) in order to resolve them.

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  älëx (PJ) (@agixjones) reported 10 minutes ago

  @RecoveriX__HQ @eBay I’ve submitted multiple reports to eBay, and both times they determined that the seller was not in violation. The seller claimed he provided me with a return label, but he never did. eBay then instructed me to resolve the issue directly with the seller, but he hasn’t answered.

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  LL Ghoul J (@TomTomerson) reported 13 minutes ago

  @strangecapers92 I hadn't bought anything in a long time from ebay and didn't realize you had to pay immediately now, and I had been having some trouble with my bank account/scammer stuff.....not fun. I was that buyer! (PSA 8 Lamine Yamal Purple Mojo card)

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  Yaboybroke 🐍 🐶 (@OKokokokok4444) reported 15 minutes ago

  @quan_eth Just attempted to get some cards graded on GCG and the website is not working. I’m buying every value pick up on EBay that I can. All Pristine grades

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  Dom Cardboard (@DomCardboard) reported 16 minutes ago

  Ever buy or sell cards internationally on eBay? This appears to be the WRONG way to do it, where the card description and declared value shows outside the package. We have enough trouble dealing with postal theft, no need to make it easier. I've heard one way to avoid this is to denote the cards you're shipping as 'picture cards' or as a gift when filling out the forms. To the experienced, is that accurate?

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  Les Twigg (@LesTwigg) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sharrond62 I'm not sure putting £800 worth of easily carried equipment in your garden is that sensible unless you find a good way to fix it down. Be interesting to see how many turn up on eBay with "damage" cables

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  Swing Smooth Stix (@SwingSmoothStix) reported 18 minutes ago

  @JesseBallCards @eBay Why do sellers cry about eBay feedback so much? It’s fake eBay takes down the majority of negative feedback rendering the entire system worthless

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  John Wood (@GeonniBravo) reported 18 minutes ago

  How about you fix the scalper issue with the X25 console pre-order and let real gamers get in on the action that aren't looking for a quick x5 ROI on eBay? The pre-order was a joke. @asha_shar

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  bill (@draftnbyu1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Ameer_lx570 @ghosthor109 Speaking in general about buying used game disk off of ebay. Didn't say ypu sold scratched disk. Simmer down

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  Jonathan Kriebel/KrispyKris (@krispykriskring) reported 24 minutes ago

  A Continental O-200 aircraft engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, four-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 200 pounds and making 100 HP. It costs $25,000 to $40,000 new. A Lycoming O-235 aircraft engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, four-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 244 pounds and making 115 HP. It costs $30,000 to $45,000 new. A Corvair 164 automobile engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, six-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 300 pounds and making 110 HP. It costs $500 to $2,000 from a junkyard. Read those specifications again. The car engine matches the aircraft engines in every category that matters cooling method, cylinder arrangement, case material, weight class, and power output at one-twentieth the price. The Corvair didn't become a popular aircraft engine because hot rodders discovered it. It became a popular aircraft engine because it already was one. GM just didn't know it. The overlap isn't a coincidence; it's convergent design. Aircraft engine designers and the Corvair's designer, Al Kolbe, solved the same problem independently and arrived at the same answers. An aircraft engine must be air-cooled because water-cooled systems add a radiator, coolant, hoses, a water pump, and a thermostat weight and failure modes that are unacceptable when the engine is the only thing between you and a crash landing. The Corvair is air-cooled because it's a rear-engine car where routing coolant lines from the back of the car to a front-mounted radiator was more complex than designing an axial cooling fan. An aircraft engine must be horizontally opposed because the flat configuration produces the smallest frontal area behind a propeller reducing aerodynamic drag and because the inherent balance of a flat-six or flat-four produces less vibration than any inline or V-configuration at the same cylinder count. The Corvair is horizontally opposed because a flat engine sits low in a rear-engine car, keeping the center of gravity below the axle line. An aircraft engine uses an aluminum case because weight reduction is critical when every pound reduces payload, range, and climb rate. The Corvair uses an aluminum crankcase because GM wanted the lightest possible engine for the rear overhang of a compact car. Same answers. Different questions. The Corvair arrived at aircraft-engine specifications by solving automobile problems and the solutions happened to be identical. The one specification where the Corvair diverges from a certified aircraft engine is the one that enhances it for homebuilders: parts availability. A Continental O-200 cylinder costs $800 to $1,200. A Lycoming piston costs $200 to $400. A magneto overhaul costs $500 to $800. Every certified aircraft engine part carries a premium because the FAA's Parts Manufacturer Approval process adds years of testing and documentation to every component testing that ensures airworthiness but inflates prices beyond what most private builders can afford. The Corvair's parts come from NAPA, AutoZone, and eBay. Pistons: $30 each. Rings: $40 per set. Bearings: $25 per set. Gaskets: $60 for a complete set. The Corvair's parts are cheap because GM made 1.7 million Corvairs and the aftermarket has been supplying replacement parts for sixty years. A Corvair conversion flies on the same physics as a Lycoming the same thermodynamics, the same combustion cycle, the same propeller-driven thrust using parts that cost five percent as much. The Experimental-Amateur Built category that the FAA created in 1947 allows homebuilders to fly uncertified engines in aircraft they build themselves. Without that regulatory category, the Corvair would have stayed in junkyards forever. The FAA's rule created the pathway. The Corvair's accidental aircraft-engine specifications made it the cheapest engine to walk that pathway. William Wynne whose FlyCorvair program has been converting Corvairs for aviation since 1989 estimates that Corvair-powered aircraft have accumulated over 500,000 flight hours worldwide. Half a million hours. From an engine that was designed for grocery runs in a car Ralph Nader declared unsafe at any speed. The Corvair has now spent more hours in the air than many certified aircraft engine models that cost twenty times as much. Every hour is a testament to what happens when an automobile manufacturer accidentally designs an aircraft engine and a community of builders figures it out three decades later. The Corvair was the wrong engine for the car it was born in. It found the right application in the sky it was never designed for. Some engines are born into the wrong vehicle. The Corvair proves that the engine can outlive the mistake if someone finds the correct one.

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  META PCs (@METAPCs) reported 29 minutes ago

  A seller's cautionary tale about selling PC parts on eBay: a buyer allegedly scammed him out of a CPU, and eBay's system nearly let it happen automatically. He listed a CPU in pristine condition, photos and all. The buyer filed a damage claim, but allegedly bent the pins himself first. Seller refused the refund and asked for the part back. It came back destroyed, pins mangled beyond repair. Then eBay's automated system tried to auto-refund the buyer using return tracking alone. The seller had to track down an actual human to stop it. Even after showing photos, eBay refunded the buyer anyway, out of eBay's own pocket. The takeaway: this scam reportedly runs at scale. It's a free part if the seller folds. If you're selling parts right now: photograph the serial number, film yourself packing it, and always demand a human rep.

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  Tulip Bulb Oligarch (@BulbIndustry) reported 30 minutes ago

  @0xBakeer Assuming the issue is latency rather than throughout, this is exactly where optane would come in handy. If you can pick up an old optane drive on eBay and stick your embeddings on that, it'll cut that 6% down to maybe 1%

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  Hunter Resells (@hunterresell) reported 30 minutes ago

  @broncocharlie They’ve already dropped the price. I’d see if they can do $300. Id list it for $1599 on eBay with offers open. The T5 is really nice! If you pick it up, I can tell you how to ship with UPS. Make sure to test it out and that the rubber bands aren’t cracked/broken.