#ebayers

[isthenapoleoncute]

That is IT!

That’s me! Except instead of having it with these mother fucking snakes on this mother fucking plane, I have HAD it with mother fucking people who don’t know how to care for their mother fucking Napoleons!

This Napoleon was suffocating! And when I tore him out of the bubble wrap - (who the HELL puts a Napoleon in bubble wrap!? Not even a Hudson Lowe on crack cocaine would do that!)

- when I tore him out of the bubble wrap…

In a plastic bag! And what’s with the name tag? Did they think that their Napoleon would forget his name?! I mean maybe after he loses all the brain cells from the AIRTIGHT plastic bag?!

Anyway he’s fine now. Thanks to me. Very beautiful, very powerful. Very cute.

Another great day of saving the Napoleon.

[akascow]

anyone interested in empty monster high boxes (g3 and creepoductions) bc the ebay part of me is telling me to sell them and the collector in me is telling me to keep them but the normal person in me is telling me to just throw them away HAHA

[deadallover]

Ever wanna boost your ego? Read your eBay profile feedback.

[thesingingrevolution]

people on mercari charging $200 dollars for a game cartridge you could buy used in great condition for $10 on amazon. this is highway robbery

[adamlanzasballsackeater89]

FANTASTIC EBAYER!! A++++++++++

[pandorkful-dolls]

@indigozeal sent me a surprise SKULMUST present and I'm over the fricken moon OuO

The full set of Lunar chibi keychain figurines!!!

I never thought I'd have even one of these guys, let alone the entire set of six, since American ebayers tend to demand $300+ for a full set.

But indigozeal picked these guys up on one of the Japanese auction/2nd hand sites for a reasonable price!

(Which is not helping my resolve in regards to avoiding getting addicted to yahoo-japan again ahahaha... what if I managed to find the Lunar model kits at a good price?? Haha nah, impossible. ...unless.......)

They're so stinkin cute, they make me wish I had Blender and 3d printing skills so I could make the rest of the cast in a similar style ;;~;;

At the very least, I'd like to get them 3d scanned with my Ghaleon punching Puppet head, so other folks could print and paint their own... :3c

I've kinda lost track of who said they could scan for me, tho :o maybe I need to look into 3d scanners myself at this point... :B

ANYWAY! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH, @indigozeal !!! I adore themmmmmm!!! >u<

Ghal: I love and appreciate my good kids.

Alex: ...what did I do??

[wokealqaeda]

FANTASTIC EBAYER!!! A++++++++++

[just-ghaleon]

Augh I'm frustrated.

About a week ago I finally found a complete copy of the Japanese Lunar Legend strategy guild, which contains some rare/unscanned character art, on ebay for around $75 shipped. I jumped on it immediately.

Well this morning the seller cancels my purchase and messages me saying the book has "defects" and they can't sell it to me. >n<

I replied, asking what the defect is, and that I'd happily pay a reduced price for it anyway. They're a Japanese seller, and in my experience Japanese ebayers tend to have way higher standards than American ebayers. If its pages are coming loose, or there's slight water damage or dogears or random tears, I don't mind. Rampant mold and mildew tho I might reconsider....

But their reviews say they're not terribly communicative when it comes to responding to messages, so maybe I should give it up. >n<

I could probably find it for less on yahoo japan auctions, but that requires finding a decent proxy service... and honestly by the time it ships, I would probably have spent around the same price. Weh. (Not to mention having to fight the temptation to search for other goodies on yjauctions...)

Man, I don't appreciate having my frivolous distractions evaporate right now. I was really looking forward to pawing through it. =n=

[firespirited]

Quite a while back, a french ebayer wanted mint/pink trendy and bendy reroot but was perplexed about her not coming with a body, I found a modern body but they wanted belly button, I found a couple more but they were damaged. This body arrived with the Zig and zag bundle, I notified the buyer, set it up... and they then vanished.

I had de-glued this GG/CEO head as part of an experiment and for gluey photos. Her side parting had short bits and was choppy so I removed all the short hair and moved her parting and went with thermal saran for a quick "turn annoyance to something creative" project. It actually took two sessions, my shoulder said 'nope' with less than half of the parting done.

Her hair hasn't been boil set as I don't know how/if thermal hair is damaged by heat. The mauve colour is quite matte but the pink blends very nicely with her blonde. I still don't like her glacial blue eyes and her silly low smile, I might do a quick overpaint (as if anything is quick LOL) and those lashes are a lil over the top so they might get trimmed.

Anyway, a few days after getting ebay ghosted, someone from the states bought mint/pink trendy and bendy as a lone head ¯\_(°.°)_/¯

[freyholland]

Here’s a fun fact for u guys while I’m replaying the game. I’ve purchased Season 1 of TWDG a total of 7 different times since it first released lmao

-Original digital, episode by episode launch (PS3)

-S1 on Steam (PC)

-S1 from The Telltale Digital Store so I could use the Telltale Audio Extractor (PC)

S1 physical GOTY edition (technically purchased 3 times bc I bought my brother and myself each a copy from an eBayer who never sent either copy, but I’ll count it only once) (PS3)

S1 (PS Vita) (yes seriously lol)

Seasons 1-3 Collection (PS4)

Seasons 1-4 Definitive Edition (PS4)

[bobsaname]

the difference in ebay reviews kills me like one person will be like "A+++++++ EBAYER FAST SHIPING VERY GOOD WOULD BUY AGAIN" and the next one would be like "it worked" and nothing else

[sm4e86]

Diákmunka tapasztalatok és három Okui Masami kislemez

Rem��lem, mostanra már elhárították a hibát az Ady Endre úton a Báthory utca sarkánál, lerobbant a 68-as busz, így a 42-es villamos nem tudott továbbmenni, és az út közepén rakott le minket. Megjött az eBayes rendelésem, három Okui Masami kislemez: TURNING POINT, Just do it, és Shuffle. Nagyon örülök neki, még most is olyan érzéssel bontok ki egy ilyen csomagot, mint amikor az első 2 Okui Masami…

[realheroeswearhats]

If I had physical energy instead of no healthcare, I'd make a comic/animation slasher about a gamer who hunts down and kills scalpers cuz they wanna play Shantae Advance but it costs $1000 because economics.

They're a cosplayer just imagine an ebayer being chased down by a noise tank with a knife

[adamlanzasballsackeater89]

great ebayer. very flexible when AAAAAA+++++

[nickgerlich]

Nice Haul

I really should have been keeping score. Each semester is different over here in The Daily Blog, completely dependent upon what is happening at the time. Every semester brings with it a new array of topics, new products, bankruptcies, and the like.

But each semester always has a handful of companies that are repeat offenders, appearing in this place multiple times, sometimes even only days apart. Why, you ask? Simple. When you are a large global company, the kind that can often find you referred to as the elephant in the room, every move you make gets people’s attention.

With further ado, let us return to Amazon, the company we just hit on for its Alexa+ coming in a few weeks. Now they are digging in their heals with Amazon Haul, an alternative to Temu and Shein they launched late last year. Essentially, it is thousands of products at rock bottom prices offered by affiliates in China, who then do all of the order fulfillment. Your package arrives in 10-14 days. Amazon facilitates the order and keeps a portion of the revenue, while letting the small Chinese firm keep the rest.

Margins are thin, as you might suspect. Late last fall I ordered a couple of long-sleeve base layer shirts, not so much because I needed them, but because I wanted to see how this new service works. I got two shirts for $25, which pushed me over the free shipping hurdle. Can you imagine this? Two shirts sent from China, and all for only $25? Yeah. Impressive.

So that’s the idea, and now Amazon is eyeing a global rollout of it. Tariffs and all that be damned, it’s full steam ahead. Temu and Shein, you better watch out.

Shein is perhaps the biggest vendor of fast fashion, while Temu toils more in the trinkets and gadgets of life in addition to clothing. Amazon Haul is taking them both on. It’s almost like the Yankees telling the Dodgers and Red Sox to bring their A-game for a big three-way World Series.

Of course, the old adage about getting what you pay for applies here. Fast fashion by design has a self-destruct feature built in, whether it is the mere fact that the winds of fashion change frequently, or by virtue of not making it past a couple of cycles through the washer and dryer. It’s almost like renting your clothes, but at least you will be at the pinnacle of current fashion.

As for my base layers, they’re OK. Not great. I prefer the good ones I bought at REI, which, in all honesty, also came from Asia. I’ll likely have to retire the Amazon Haul ones once it warms up for good.

But there is another little issue I had happen to me back in January. Although I cannot definitively establish cause and effect, in my mind, the unknown clothing manufacturer in China who fulfilled my order may very well have used my name and address for what is called the brushing scam. My order arrived with Amazon labeling, not the manufacturer, so I really don’t know much about the firm unless I were to drill back through my orders to find the item on Amazon, and possibly click through or search online. I don’t have time for that.

Here’s what happened. I started receiving unsolicited plastic envelopes at my residence, the kind that eBayers often use for sending small items they sell. One envelope contained a graduation card. One was empty. Two had a small pebble in it, the kind you would use in landscaping. Each one had a return address with an individual person’s name, but that’s it.

While brushing scams usually involve bad people finding your address online, and then sending unwanted items, sometimes they send much more than a card or rock. But I know that very few people or entities know my physical address, aside from Amazon. And the timing of the incident was too perfect for my ever analyzing mind.

So what’s in it for the perpetrator? Usually the goal of the brushing scam is to simply send you things as if you had ordered them, and then they write fake online reviews using your name. Yes, someone sent me four items, all using fake sender names and addresses in light industrial parks in and around Los Angeles. I used Google Streetview to confirm this.

They can act as if those were online orders, as in I ordered a pebble. Glowing fake reviews can be used to bolster sales of whatever it is they sell. Once again, I did not bother to look to see if my name is being used with fake reviews. Fortunately for me, they quit sending this stuff after four times. Still, it is bothersome.

Variants of this scam include a QR code that the sender hopes you scan, which can cause all manner of problems if it launches software to take over your phone. Remember, just as in human physical relations, always practice safe scanning. Don’t scan something that you don’t know is safe.

Whether my Amazon Haul caused this is something I will never know. The dark web contains a lot of our information, and I suppose someone could have scraped my name and physical address from some other source, although the way I have my personal name entered at Amazon is among only a few places I have done so.

OK. Take a deep breath, DrG. Nothing bad happened, at least as far as you know. Let’s return to today’s subject.

Amazon must be doing well with their Beta test of Haul, enough so to cause it to expand across the world. There is a market for cheap stuff, especially as we still feel the effects of inflation. Right or wrong—and there is much to discuss on that topic alone—China can deliver the goods for a fraction of the prices we find elsewhere. As for quality and fakes, there is always risk there to be assumed by the buyer.

This is a bold move by Amazon. If they’re doing it, then you know the concept is legit, and Amazon must also be feeling some of the competitive heat Shein and Temu have caused.

As for me, though, I will probably take a pass on this one going forward. While I still cannot prove that one simple transaction caused those annoying envelopes. I’ll stick with things that Amazon fulfills, not some nameless company halfway around the world.

I mean, unless they would be cool with sending a half ton of those pebbles, because I have a landscaping project coming up soon.

Dr “Keeping Score” Gerlich

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[anenglishmanabroad]

The many (many) label styles of J. Crew. And that's probably not close to all of them.

Tip for vintage buyers or eBayers - if the label has two stars printed underneath the "J. Crew" then the item is from J. Crew Factory, which is their outlet store. And I've seen a lot of eBay sellers try to pass off J. Crew Factory clothing as J. Crew.

J. Crew Factory clothes are OK; there's nothing wrong with them. But they are not as good quality as J. Crew proper - and definitely not as good as some of the lovelier vintage J. Crew.