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<p>[QUOTE="Blueindian65, post: 548475, member: 17310"]I don't' have much to add to this except that I like to use eBay. I try and use my communication and business skills to make the best add for my product as possible and generally brake even if nothing else.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the seller thing. As a sales person it is my job to get as much money as possible for what im selling. If as a buyer you let me charge you 20 % more than its worth then that is o.k. It does not me im unethical a crook or anything like that. The opposite is true. If someone is a shrewed negotiator and they can talk someone into selling something for 20 under its value than more power to them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sense Cave man Days people have traded for goods they need. It's natural Im great at making arrow heads and you are a great shot so you trade me meat for my arrow heads. If I get lazy and stop making a good product and Utt down the way makes better than me I will starv because UTT steals my clients. Plato describes it perfectly in the <i>Republic</i>. We as humans hate compatetion, but it is only because of our lack of Reason. He uses a metaphore of a vase (sp) clay pot for clearification. in the market place one man is mad that someone has started selling pots next to his pot store :mouth: (sry im still immature at 25... get it pot store like stoners pot place bad simpsions joke) Socrates (in the book aristotle clames plato is lying when he attributes his ideas to him) says insted of being mad at the competition we should embrace it as a brother, because it makes us better:hug:. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the Ebay context instead of being mad at e-bay we should all love the fact that they give us a place to sell to millions of customers and that there are idiots out there paying 10K for things that are worth 2k it means we can all sell for more. As far as fake items go. We should start a list on hear and post it in ebay forms of people selling fakes. That way sellers from coin talk Gain Ethos and we elliminate the frodsters. IdK this is just my thoughts ive proboly not said anything tht has not already been stated, but its just how I feel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay is a public corperation that owes high performance to there investors. Millions of people use it and every second coins are bought and sold. Pay Pals fees are actually cheep. If you where to open a store and process credit cards you would get chard 3%+ for the card service. My best frids dad sales this type of equipment. We should all be thankfull that e-bay does not rake us as much as they do in poker rooms or bookies a 10% big is not that bad. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>and finaly. I saw those ark halvs you bought wish I had got them now congrats on the find. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>also sry for any gramatical erros or missspealings im dyslexic as the day is long and can't waste an hour to proof read a messadge like this hope my thougths come across i'll be more than happy to go more indeapth on anything that is confusing[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blueindian65, post: 548475, member: 17310"]I don't' have much to add to this except that I like to use eBay. I try and use my communication and business skills to make the best add for my product as possible and generally brake even if nothing else. On the seller thing. As a sales person it is my job to get as much money as possible for what im selling. If as a buyer you let me charge you 20 % more than its worth then that is o.k. It does not me im unethical a crook or anything like that. The opposite is true. If someone is a shrewed negotiator and they can talk someone into selling something for 20 under its value than more power to them. Sense Cave man Days people have traded for goods they need. It's natural Im great at making arrow heads and you are a great shot so you trade me meat for my arrow heads. If I get lazy and stop making a good product and Utt down the way makes better than me I will starv because UTT steals my clients. Plato describes it perfectly in the [I]Republic[/I]. We as humans hate compatetion, but it is only because of our lack of Reason. He uses a metaphore of a vase (sp) clay pot for clearification. in the market place one man is mad that someone has started selling pots next to his pot store :mouth: (sry im still immature at 25... get it pot store like stoners pot place bad simpsions joke) Socrates (in the book aristotle clames plato is lying when he attributes his ideas to him) says insted of being mad at the competition we should embrace it as a brother, because it makes us better:hug:. In the Ebay context instead of being mad at e-bay we should all love the fact that they give us a place to sell to millions of customers and that there are idiots out there paying 10K for things that are worth 2k it means we can all sell for more. As far as fake items go. We should start a list on hear and post it in ebay forms of people selling fakes. That way sellers from coin talk Gain Ethos and we elliminate the frodsters. IdK this is just my thoughts ive proboly not said anything tht has not already been stated, but its just how I feel. Ebay is a public corperation that owes high performance to there investors. Millions of people use it and every second coins are bought and sold. Pay Pals fees are actually cheep. If you where to open a store and process credit cards you would get chard 3%+ for the card service. My best frids dad sales this type of equipment. We should all be thankfull that e-bay does not rake us as much as they do in poker rooms or bookies a 10% big is not that bad. and finaly. I saw those ark halvs you bought wish I had got them now congrats on the find. also sry for any gramatical erros or missspealings im dyslexic as the day is long and can't waste an hour to proof read a messadge like this hope my thougths come across i'll be more than happy to go more indeapth on anything that is confusing[/QUOTE]
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