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[challenge entry] Just say no kids....

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(I helped save b3ta! Oxter, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:26, archived)
# from now on, I shall call you oxternipp!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:27, archived)
# nooo!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Oxter, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:28, archived)
# hahhaha
:D

yeah, and now to CASH IN the proceeds of my EVIL!

$$$$
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:29, archived)
# halfsies..
(I helped save b3ta! Oxter, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:31, archived)
# And so oxter, you've joined the shadows
enjoy your riches

:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:32, archived)
# A millionaire once told me "If you just want to make money, become a drug dealer."
Good advice that I'm taking at face value.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:29, archived)
# if you want to make money
just write pamphlets telling other people how to make money and sell them on ebay.

simples.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:31, archived)
# even better
sell a link to a site that sells the pamphlets that tell you how to make money

that way you don't waste any money on pamphlet overhead :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:33, archived)
# I once came across an ebay auction just selling the URL to a flight search website for £2
The seller included a screenshot so I just googled a couple of sentences and found it. I wonder how many people actually bought it. Scary.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:34, archived)
# I found an auction selling a load of hacker videos
foolishly, it listed the titles of the hacker videos

searching on google on those titles found the hacker website with the videos available for free :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:37, archived)
# Ha
I guess if just one person buys it pays for the auction...
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:41, archived)
# yeah
:/
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)
# selling..a url?
to a search website?

hmmm.

that doesn't sound as good as your drug dealing or Pasanonic's pyramid schemes, really.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:38, archived)
# be afraid
people pay for this shit
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:40, archived)
# If there's a market...
eBay is weird, though. The same thing (a second-hand video game, say) can go for two very different prices even though the bidders can see all auctions, and thus have 'perfect' information on the market.

But they are lazy :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)
# anyone got that link for the bottle of beer that was used in some antarctic expedition
went for peanuts

then the buyer listed it

and it went for like 60 thousand or something
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:45, archived)
# I bought my watch on ebay last year for about £20
There was an identical one selling at exactly the same time for £60, and it was attracting way more bids. It even had the same auction title and picture.

And of course there's stuff like this...
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:46, archived)
# I've said it before, and I will say it again.
People are fucking idiots.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:48, archived)
# reselling of gift certificates makes some sense in that you can't usually trade them back for cash
so if someone gives it you as a gift, it's the only way to 'monetize' it :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:54, archived)
# I think it is more the fact that people are buying a
$50 gift card for more than that :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:58, archived)
# hahahahahahahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:55, archived)
# My 'didn't win'
folder is full of stuff like this. Just checking now there are two identical graphics cards from the same seller and one went for £51, the other for £31 which was above my limit of £20 ( a price which I have bought and resold plenty at )
Some people won't do the work when they want a single purchase.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:59, archived)
# Not all people are equal
People don't want perfect prices. They will settle for good enough prices, where good enough is based on their financial circumstances, value placed on convenience (cost of delay, time saved shopping etc.).
(I helped save b3ta! numberbruncher - correct by nature, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 2:10, archived)
# Tell you what though, it's a hell of a site
Leave a crisp fiver under the big rock by the gate of the suspicious-looking barn just outside Princes Risborough, Bucks and I'll let you know.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:41, archived)
# If you want to make money then just travel several lightyears buy lots of commodities at a lower value and resell then, taking no account for fuel expenditure.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:34, archived)
# buy radioactives
dump them

forge the manifest

profit :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:38, archived)
# If you've got radioactives you may as well hold the world ransom for... ONE MIILION DOLLARS
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:39, archived)
# SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:40, archived)
# Only works if you have a vector graphic looking spaceship.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:40, archived)
# he needs to go fast so he can collect the rings to trade for drugs
he needs the drugs to go fast so he can collect the rings

he's stuck in a vicious circle, man :(
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:32, archived)
# I just hope he gets the help he needs.....
(I helped save b3ta! Oxter, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:34, archived)
# oh oh...
... he must know Speedy Gonzalez!
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:51, archived)