Do any vehicle maintenance you can now. Look up common issues for your vehicle and maybe buy those parts as they might be extra expensive due to tarrifs. If you need to you can sell them later.
Secondary used markets are going to be huge, so set aside anything you think people will want in the future. Buy an ebike just in case driving becomes too expensive. Download as much media as you think youll want because theyre trying to ban piracy sites and free options may dissapear.
Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let’s them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They’re just doing it more now that they definitely won’t face any repercussions.
They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.
Even if you switch to an offline keyboard, the new “ai” assistants in Windows, iOS, and Android? Can read your screen, microphone, and etc. I’m not really sure what you should use unless you use coded language. Even then, there’s just too much information about you out there anyway. Best bet would to be have conversations in private away from any electronic devices or use something like tails.
Hopefully it’s a lot less time than that.
I somehow formatted one of these to the point that it just locks up whatever system it’s plugged into.
You have to offer free returns for top rated seller status. It puts you higher up in searches.
ten 65 years
Not in the winter. They can’t do it during the cold months in many states. Everyone stop paying in the beginning of winter.
When I started selling on n ebay over 20 years ago I would list CDs and other items with stock images because I didn’t have a camera, people would physically mail me checks or money orders, I would deposit those and wait for them to clear, then mail them their items. I found a ln old piece of software in box that had a printed exchange between the buyer and seller off of a bbs from the early nineties.
I used to buy and sell car parts on a vehicle specific forum, but you could see the person’s forum activity.
The board game geeks website seems to do ok with math trades. I’m not really sure how trust gets established there. Reddit does or used to to the secret Santa thing.
There’s discogs for buying and selling media.
Of course everything is a scam now, even from “legitimate” companies.
People using marketplace to have things shipped is completely wild to me. Even local sellers are dishonest about the quality of their shit. At least on ebay you can get your money back if there’s a problem. I’m not sure if you could build some kind of token of trust that doesn’t require a central place that stores sensitive information. Maybe a way to verify yourself through a trusted platform like eBay, but those accounts can be stolen as well.
Whatever happened to people using craigslist is beyond me. Maybe the scams and lack of user accounts became a problem. They did implement an email system and you have to pay to list cars due to dealership spam. Of course a bunch of other platforms tried to take off and some alternatives became popular in other countries.
The benefit of decentralization is better moderation and specialization. It’s much harder to scam a small community. eBay does absorb a lot of losses by just refunding buyers when there’s a problem.
My small town growing up has a town square. It’s a giant roundabout with a park in the middle and stores on the outside perimeter. If you showed those people a roundabout, they would still lose their minds.
If you buy on eBay they are required to send items with tracking. No tracking means you can just ask for a refund and you’ll receive it automatically since they can’t provide a tracking number. The major carriers also do rate adjustments if the seller tries to underpay for packages by listing the wrong weight. Unfortunately as a seller this also means that you have to watch for erroneous weight adjustments and contest them when they crop up. I think it happens when your package is sitting on top of another package when it goes under the automated photo system.
I’ve never had an issue with receiving a package from eBay and I buy and sell on there all the time. I had one package I shipped get lost, I had another I sent through eBays international forwarding service (Pitney Bowes) who said they wouldn’t forward it because of the materials in the item. It was not listed as a prohibited item and isn’t prohibited to ship internationally, I got to keep the money and the buyer got a refund.
Make a technical mistake like saying windmill, people will come correct you with wind turbine.
Smells like bitch in here
Trump is the dancing monkey who will sign whatever they put in front of him. Plenty of people in his sphere are itching to kill.
Delete Facebook and hit the gym
That’s the companies decision and they should understand the risks.
If you’re that paranoid about it, then just physically destroy the drive.
We’ll see hopefully they have to play whackamole and keep having to go to court and waste their time.