I absolutely hate FaceBook and everything it stands for. Car "forums" on there are terrible and impossible to follow. The only good thing about Facebook is that everybody sells stuff there. Unfortunately they make their search engine for MarketPlace so unbelievably terrible on purpose (in my opinion), that is is wildly annoying to sift through. I am thankful to have been around for the glory days of BBS car forums. I still think it is a far superior format than anything else I have come across.
Congrats to you and your family!!Well, I'm officially an old fuck! My daughter gave birth to an 8lb 11oz baby boy late last night, both baby and mom are doing great. His dad is too!
Joe
I never really understood the exodus from Craigslist to Marketplace. Did people think all of the idiots from Craigslist would just stay there and not migrate over to Marketplace? At least the search function on Craigslist works. I recall numerous times searching the entire country for something specific in maybe 15-20 minutes. On Marketplace it takes me 15-20 minutes just to sift through mounds of crap in one region that has absolutely nothing to do with what I searched for.
I always have one hard drive in my PC and whenever I upgrade it, usually when it gets filled to 66-75% capacity, I relegate the previous drive to my primary backup drive that gets removed from my case and put into a USB SATA dock. The next upgrade after that will move the drive that was in the dock to my eBay queue for sale.
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Right? I often find something on marketplace to sleep on and then when I go to search it out later I end up having to scroll for an hour to find it again, even being very specific in my search terms! It also has a bad habit of giving listings from 1000 miles away even though I set distance to 0-30 miles
Craigslist shot themselves in the foot ending personals, all the weirdos and freaks left and they had all the cool stuff for sale
You can find deals there still, I got my current set of wheels and tires there in 2022 for stupid cheap because they weren’t listed anywhere else.
My personal favorite was “missed connections”
You’d read a story about how someone farted on a train and they were desperately looking to connect with that person.
I used to sell a fair bit of stuff on eBay, and for a long time they have favored buyers over sellers, but the final straw for me was they recently changed their terms of service such that every seller must accept returns for up to 30 days, at the seller’s expense! As an individual person selling oddball stuff, I cannot take the risk of it costing me money to try to sell something, not because I misrepresented it or did anything wrong, but just because some random person changed their mind for any or no reason. I would literally rather throw something away than deal with that BS! So I removed every listing I had on eBay, and sent them a nasty email explaining why, which probably just went into the void, but whatever. I also refuse to use facebook at all, so I don’t know what the answer is, but I will never list another thing for sale on eBay!
I hear you about eBay. I've used Mercari as an alternative to eBay for buying a few times. I haven't seriously looked into selling on there yet, but I have considered it few times in the last couple of years. I think what dissuaded me was that, at the time, their fee schedule was worse for sellers than eBay's. I think they've since changed it to a flat 10% and it's less buyer-friendly now that they only allow a 72-hour return window.
You're more of a fan than I. I saw $1300/ticket for nose bleeds. Found $400 tickets in Dublin. Figured I could see the world and Metallica for the same amount
I'm glad you posted this because I'm in the process of prepping an old ThinkPad T43 for sale, and this is going to be a much more run-of-the-mill listing than the last ThinkPad I offered for sale.I occasionally bring random IT-related stuff home from work - usually equipment that's too old to be of use for the client anymore and it's marked for disposal. I collect old ThinkPad laptops and every so often I'll find one stashed away in a closet and bring it home. Sometimes I keep them for myself, but sometimes I sell them off. When I would sell stuff I would usually post it up on feeBay and had relatively good experiences overall.
That luck ran out in 2020 when some fool bought a "vintage" machine from me (ca. 2004, with a single-core CPU, less than a gig of RAM and running the factory-installed pre-SP2 Windows XP). He expected it to boot up and connect to the wi-fi so he could do whatever he wanted out-of-the box as if it was brand-new, and when it couldn't connect to wi-fi he took it to Staples (of all places) who so astutely told him the wireless card had gone bad. (in reality he was trying to connect to a WPA encrypted network with an XP install without SP2, and MS didn't introduce WPA support to XP until SP2)
So this guy, with his "expert diagnosis from Staples" filed a defective item return claim - which caught me off guard because I very thoroughly test every laptop that I come across - so I contacted him to find out what was going on. After a few emails back and forth I was able to correct the issue, but by then he had "changed his mind" and wanted to send it back anyway. At the time feeBay would make the buyer foot the shipping bill if the item was being returned for reasons that didn't include a problem with the item itself, so I asked him if he'd split the return shipping cost with me 50/50 and he agreed, in writing, in the feeBay messaging system. He returned the item, I didn't get any kind of charge for the shipping label, processed his refund, relisted/sold the item to a more appropriate buyer and all seemed well. Until 6 months later.
feeBay posted the return label shipping charge to my account out of nowhere, then when I contacted their "customer service" center the rude offshore-outsourced guy I spoke to told me they would not take any action to help me, despite all the written documentation showing the shipping charges were improper because of the buyer's incorrect return type, because I "was not a top rated seller" because "I didn't sell enough items" on the platform. Nevermind the fact that I had close to a thousand transactions on the platform since I joined in 2006, and feeBay makes no money whatsoever if buyers don't patronize the marketplace.
So, after that lovely conversation I decided not only to stop selling on their platform, but completely boycott them for any goods of any kind.
Since I've never set foot in the FB domain, when I have stuff I want to sell I have to go through Craiglist or the old ThinkPads forum, both of which are slow and hit-or-miss. Overall I've been able to get rid of what I want to though. When I want to buy something I've managed by using Amazon and Mercari. Those platforms/companies aren't really an upgrade but at the very least I can hold true to myself and never give feeBay another penny.
May they bleed a slow, painful death.
Probably just dust on the connection in the knobs from sitting unmoved for a long time. Sometimes you can blow air into it or connecter cleaner slowly around the knobs while turning them to clear up the connections.
im on the opposite side of that coin. I like it way better than the old forums. it reminds me of the way birdcalls was originally before all the bbs stuff.
