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  #SINGLE3MAXLIFE (@andrewgray77) reported 4 minutes ago

  @shaneflannagan Go to eBay and search “VSeeboxV5” and spend $250ish on a box that will solve that issue. I’ve got the V5 (that’s the model of device) and I LOVE IT!! They do have newer models (V6…. V6 ultra…) and so on but the V5 works just fine for me. Got 1 in my living room and bed room.

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  Mutie LVR/BLACK CAT ENJOYER (@Ashrah76) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Terrell352 @shinobi602 If Sony goes offline that means I won’t have access to the stuff I wanna do anyway and will be forced to play offline always a terrible argument and separate issue I purchased 26 comics off eBay this past month they “phasing out if books is going to take far longer than

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  weasel (@pap3rw8) reported 9 minutes ago

  @dontplay_z Turning anything nostalgic or "collectible" into an investment vehicle has been terrible for hobbyists. I blame eBay.

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  Thistle (@ThistleBrah) reported 12 minutes ago

  @yacineMTB i got a zedm with a broken imu pretty awesome stuff for like 105 off ebay a year back

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  Meat-Head (@MeatHead_Motors) reported 12 minutes ago

  @MattTakeThree @SEAMAC_VALET @TheAA_UK Last time I played with one that had a problem was 2012 ish. Common enough for someone to sell emulators on eBay

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  Beahmer (@_Beahmer_) reported 16 minutes ago

  @StixNBallzCards @askebay @eBay I don’t see the big issue here. People misplace things and mistakes happen. At least they are being cool about it.

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  Rulya (@Rulyaxd) reported 16 minutes ago

  One guy in a home server rack is running four Grok Bots that hunt eBay for Sony PVMs, track Galaxy Z Fold observations, and remember what he cared about yesterday. The article above is the 26 bot version of what he's doing, scaled to cover everything a brain is supposed to hold. Four bots in the video, named Otis, Scout, Milo, and Notion. Each has one job, all sharing the same cloud computer so their memory stacks instead of resetting each session. The author's setup extends that from 4 to 26 named agents like Voice Notes, Task Queue, Contact Graph, Idea Vault, Knowledge Graph. One Chief routes between them like a shift manager, and none of them forget what happened last week. That last part is what changes the product category. A chat tab is a fresh session every time. A Second Brain is the same room where you left your notebook open yesterday. Tiago Forte named the methodology years ago. The framework has PARA folders and a capture organize distill express workflow. The stack to run it never existed until now. Notion held the folders but didn't do the thinking. Chat tabs did the thinking but forgot the folders. Grok Bot's persistent shared cloud computer is what makes the methodology executable in software for the first time, because memory across sessions turned out to matter more than the model or the prompt. The three monetization paths in the article come with real numbers. Solo operators can sell this as a $1,500 to $3,000 setup with a monthly retainer, capping at around 13 active clients before their own hours become the bottleneck. The video is one guy's personal use case. The article scales it to an operator playbook you can sell. What's the one thing your brain keeps forgetting that would actually pay you back if a bot remembered it for you?

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  Michael (@AmericanFranny) reported 17 minutes ago

  I’m thinking about selling cards on eBay. Might put a few up for a dollar or something, unless they’re worth more. I sold things in 2018 and had real good success. Or is the market over saturated and is it not worth the trouble?

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  ColdCathodeMan (@ColdCathodeMan) reported 18 minutes ago

  @slstrm_dsgn @Gavin_McInnes I'd rather spend 15 bucks on ebay for an old issue of playboy. Or watch that scene in Chasers again.

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  Yash / Bella 🧩 (@Yasharkbos) reported 25 minutes ago

  @StixNBallzCards @askebay @eBay I mean the seller was nice. People sell in so many different ways and cross post all the time. Stuff gets missed or forgotten to be taken down. Seems like your attitude is the wrong one.

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  Karlow (@karlowalpha) reported 25 minutes ago

  You are handed an envelope and told to write down the most you would pay for a broadcasting license. Highest number wins. But the winner does not pay their own number. They pay the second-highest one. Name your price. Most people shade down. They write less than they would really pay, because that is what you do in an auction. You protect yourself from overpaying. That instinct is provably wrong here. Under these rules your bid never sets your price. It only decides whether you win. Writing anything below your true maximum can only lose you a deal you wanted. Honesty is not a virtue in this auction. It is the dominant strategy. An economist proved that in 1961. His name was William Vickrey. New Zealand actually ran it. In 1990 the government sold radio spectrum this way with no reserve prices. On one license the winning bid was NZ$100,000. The price paid was NZ$6. On another the winner bid NZ$7 million and paid NZ$5,000. The sale was projected to raise NZ$250 million. It raised NZ$36 million. The country decided the theory was insane. The country was wrong about which part failed. Every bid was honest and every license went to whoever wanted it most, exactly as designed. The money vanished because there were no reserve prices and ten near-identical licenses were sold in parallel, so the second-highest bid on any one of them could be almost nothing. Then the bids were published and everyone saw a company that would have paid NZ$100,000 hand over NZ$6. That is the real scandal. Not the money. The visibility. Vickrey won the Nobel for this work in October 1996. He was dead three days later. The mechanism did not stay in New Zealand. It is why eBay asks for your maximum instead of your bid. The price was never set by how badly you wanted the thing. It was set by the second-most-eager person in the room, and you have spent your whole life negotiating as if that were not true.

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  Jimmy Ingocnito (@jimmyincognito1) reported 27 minutes ago

  @TheLaurenChen eBay sells every single book a child could want for $3-5/pop. Every one living in a major american city is within at most 5 miles of a goodwill/salvation army with $1/$2 books. Every library has these programs. Access to books is not the problem. THis is all performative.

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  hotwheelsjack97 (@hotwheelsjack) reported 32 minutes ago

  Ebay app search sorted by “Best Match” is currently broken, only returning 0 listings. @eBay your backend is bad and you should feel bad.

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  Argona (@Argona0x) reported 32 minutes ago

  i have $8,400 of credit card debt so i created a grok bot and told it "this is your problem now" day 6: the debt is $7,912 and i haven't done anything except watch i named the bot Reaper. it has its own computer in the cloud, access to my email, and one instruction: "report progress daily. don't ask me for money" honestly i didn't expect much. i just wanted to stop being the only one who knew the number first night it read 14 months of statements. then it went to work: → found $67/month in subscriptions i forgot existed. killed them the same hour → emailed the card company's retention team. two escalations later my APR dropped from 26.99% to 19.4% → found a 0% balance transfer, 12 months, $89 fee. did the math, moved $6,100 → disputed two charges from 2025. won one: $118 back → listed my playstation and two monitors on ebay. i found out from the confirmation email → every dollar it frees goes straight to principal, automatically every night at 9pm, telegram: "debt: $7,912. freed today: $31. nothing needed from you" the playstation thing annoyed me for exactly one minute. then i checked when i last used it. november the bot costs $200 a month. it freed $488 in week one projected zero: march 11. i've stopped opening my banking app. the bot opens it for me should i give it my student loans next?

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 36 minutes ago

  Lesson 8: He showed them the private labeling process how a $3.80 product becomes a "brand" in 2 weeks. He told them the process most Amazon sellers use and the process any consumer can use to launch their own product line. Step 1: find the product on Alibaba. Search by category. Compare factories. Request samples from 3 suppliers. Choose the factory with the best quality-to-price ratio and the most responsive communication. Step 2: customize the product. Most factories offer customization at the same or slightly higher unit price logo printing, color selection, material upgrades, packaging design. The buyer provides the logo file, selects the color, approves the packaging mockup, and the factory produces the branded product. The "brand" is born the moment the logo appears on the product. Step 3: order the branded units. The factory produces the order typically in 15–30 days for quantities under 1,000 units. The products ship via sea freight (cheapest, 25–40 days) or air freight (faster, 5–10 days, more expensive). Step 4: list on the selling platform. Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, or the seller's own website. Professional photos (often provided by the factory or shot at home with a lightbox). Keyword-optimized listing. Competitive pricing typically 4–8x the factory cost, depending on the market positioning. He told them the entire process from finding the factory to listing the first product takes 2–4 weeks and costs $300–$1,500 depending on the product category, the order quantity, and the shipping method. The business that most people assume requires $10,000–$50,000 in startup capital requires a laptop, an Alibaba account, and a willingness to message factories in broken English at 3 AM.