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  AlienMario64 (@AlienMario64) reported 37 seconds ago

  anyone else having trouble opening the eBay app? it keeps freezing up when opening the app trying to load the home page

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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 2 minutes ago

  A company with 30 employees made $1 billion a year. Not Google. Not Facebook. Craigslist. At its peak, revenue per employee was 10-20x Google's. The founder did everything "wrong": rejected billions from VCs, ran zero ads, and demoted himself to customer support. Then within 6 years, revenue crashed 70%+. Here’s the real story. • Started as a simple email list in 1995 by Craig Newmark, an IBM programmer. • Friends asked to post jobs and rentals. He built a bare-bones website — intentionally ugly, like a community bulletin board. • Zero marketing spend. Network effects did all the work. • In 1999, he made it a for-profit company but kept 99% free. Charged only for some job posts in a few cities. • In 2000, he stepped down as CEO to become a customer service rep. He didn't like managing people. • The result: ~30 employees, ~$1B annual revenue (reportedly, around 2018). For comparison, Google's per-employee revenue was ~$1.2M; Facebook's ~$1.6M. Craigslist's was $20-35M. • They rejected every opportunity to make more money. Every niche they dominated was later turned into a billion-dollar company by someone else: • Jobs → LinkedIn • Housing → Zillow • Goods → eBay, Facebook Marketplace • Then crises hit: • 2004: eBay bought 30% of Craigslist without founders' consent. Legal battle followed. Craigslist converted to an LLC to avoid shareholder profit demands. • 2009: "Craigslist killer" — a medical student used the site to commit murder. The adult services section, worth $36M/year, was shut down. • Mobile revolution: Craigslist stayed ugly and desktop-only. Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016, fully mobile, with real names. It surpassed 1 billion users by 2021. • Revenue reportedly dropped from ~$1B (2018) to ~$300M (2023). A 70% decline. The irony? The same principles that built Craigslist killed it: • 99% free → no money to modernize • No investment → no strategic pivot • Anti-commercial → picked apart by specialists Craig Newmark today lives in an apartment, owns no car, keeps pigeons. He's donated over $500M to journalism — the very industry his site helped destroy. This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of choices. You can live by your values and be comfortable. But markets don't wait. Craigslist's decline was a choice. Takeaway: If you don't evolve, you get eaten. Security and growth rarely coexist. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #Craigslist #BusinessLessons

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  Manul-Pilled Manulcel (@WestlannWyvern) reported 2 minutes ago

  @amerpipedream Neat, the problem is honestly shipping, a lot of sellers on eBay have wildly different prices/free shipping so it might be a little hard to compete with that tbh

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  Alex Romano (@A_Rom23) reported 3 minutes ago

  IMO: @eBay needs to fix two things for sports cards: 1. Let me set a budget across multiple outgoing offers—once it's met, auto-retract the pending ones 2.If I set a min offer price, block lowballs from buyers who already tried below it and go to message abt price

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  GoldenOPOY (@pocketjoe) reported 5 minutes ago

  @JaidenEditz @PlayStation @Sony This is a terrible deal, you should have either sold it on eBay or hung into it for retro value down the road. They are laughing to the bank

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  Brouxir (@Brouxir) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Midnight_Blaze_ @Spottyroo There are only a few values. They sell kits on eBay. Clip two thin white wires under the dash going to a yellow plug, add in the resistor and never see this issue again. This is the earliest version of VATS where all that chip is, is a resistor. Thats why they sell kits, since there are only a few values total, they figure you try them all until you find the one it likes, otherwise you can read the resistance right off the pellet itself on the key. IF they had it which he doesn't.

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  Feldspar (@greenjeopardy) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CardsMax Coming out in the comments already, but the issue is that it is just straight trash business. If you sent a card like that to a buyer, for sure you're getting a negative feedback 5/10 times and eBay wouldn't reverse even if undamaged. Don't offer a service for people's money and produce **** product. Sending cards worth hundreds or thousands of dollars and it's slipping out of the sleeve. It's objectively unaccptable and at this point I'm more annoyed that eBay is basically saying, yes we provide a **** product based on every reasonable standard and metric for this industry, but **** off.

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  👑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 (@skpywatts58832) reported 10 minutes ago

  Jake (Caller): I make around $50,000 to $80,000 a month doing e-commerce. Dave Ramsey: Hold on. You're making $50,000 a month at 16 years old? Jake: Yes, sir. Dave Ramsey: Are you telling me the truth? Jake: Yes. I run dropshipping stores on Shopify, do Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage, and other online businesses. Jake: The problem is, my mom has no idea because she's on my bank account, so I've been keeping all my profits in PayPal. Dave Ramsey: How much is in the PayPal account? Jake: A little over $300,000. Dave Ramsey: So you've built that up in about eight months? Jake: Yes. The first few months were slow, but then things took off really fast. Dave Ramsey: Where's your father? Jake: My parents are divorced. We talk, but he's not really a father figure. Dave Ramsey: Are you involved in a good church? Jake: Yes, sir. I'm very close with my pastor. Dave Ramsey: Have you talked to him about this? Jake: No. I haven't told anyone not even my friends. Dave Ramsey: Don't tell your friends. That would be very unwise. Absolutely don't do that.

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  Mizar (@Oxmizar) reported 13 minutes ago

  A 24-year-old former Deliveroo courier in Belgrade paid $180 in eBay parts last month and built the whole rig inside a Nike shoebox on his kitchen table. ASRock B450. Ryzen 5. 32GB DDR4. One used RTX 3060. Nothing new except the thermal paste. He runs three client accounts now. 18 automations. Menu translation for two Balkan cafés opening in Vienna. Reply-drafting for a small immigration law firm. Voice-note transcription for a real-estate agent working the Serbian diaspora market. The stack used to cost $412/month across ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and a translator's retainer. The shoebox costs $8.50/month in electricity. He didn't hire anyone. He didn't buy a domain. He just plugged the box into a static IP and let the agents pick up the invoices. The delivery app that used to schedule him at 4 AM keeps sending him "boost bonus" push notifications. He forwards them to an inbox rule that drafts polite Serbian thank-you notes before the cafés down the street open.

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  Kai🍃 (@HazyHalloween) reported 13 minutes ago

  Bought a PS5 with a broken HDMI port for $100, got it fixed for $130 and ended up with a perfect PS5 for $230. eBay is a wild place.

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  Roaringalpaca (@Roaringalpaca4) reported 14 minutes ago

  $GME breaking 🚨 @ryancohen positive and negative actions. 1. The warrants are OTM and a complete failure (yet) 2. Share dilution to kill the squeeze 3. Bitcoin play down almost 40% 4. Saying the ebay filing comes in 1 week, 2 weeks passed and nothing! Postive actions below!

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  walt wizzney (@waltwizzney) reported 15 minutes ago

  @business @opinion I do not want GameStop to have anything to do with eBay and I want Ryan to step down

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  Thomas Weiske (@Waldbrandgefa_r) reported 15 minutes ago

  @eBay @JB85959599 @eBay_UK The eBay App on iOS is not working

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  CreekChubs (@creekchub15) reported 16 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon I think they will announce they have decided to table going after eBay for the foreseeable future. eBay is navigating several major legal and regulatory issues, including a revived cyberstalking lawsuit, whistleblower claims, and European regulatory actions.

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  DickPapa’sHouseofCards (@DickPapa4) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Whyan_daOG @CardPurchaser @eBay They didn’t for me. I don’t understand how they don’t fix this.