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I’ve always wanted men in various countries who could buy things for me in obscure offline marketplaces. Rice cookers from Japan, gold from India, amber fragmen
by matte_black 9y ago
I’ve always wanted men in various countries who could buy things for me in obscure offline marketplaces. Rice cookers from Japan, gold from India, amber fragments from Cambodia, antique ivory from Africa, meteorites from Siberia, rugs from Morocco.
Unfortunately the biggest obstacle to setting up such a network is finding people you can trust.
- Ftuuky 9y agoWhat if it's on the blockchain?
- matte_black 9y agoBlockchain could only help with certain transactional aspects. Having a man in a foreign country who buys things for you requires they have autonomy over some funds you allocate for them, otherwise you get stuck micromanaging purchases at odd hours and inconvenient times.
- tortasaur 9y agoCan't you get Zojirushi rice cookers pretty easily?
- matte_black 9y agoI actually have a Zojirushi, but while I was in Japan I came across some rare rice cookers and even some modded ones that I would have loved to have brought back. I have been unable to find similar ones online, doesn’t help that I don’t know much Japanese.
- jpatokal 9y agoYou can find basically all of that on eBay. The trust problem remains though.
- jsemrau 9y agoI would've thought that Facebook would have solved this problem already? What is better than a friend within 6-degree separation ?
- grogenaut 9y agoThey're even worse because there is a penaltt cost of calling them out if they cheat you that business doesn't have. If they're going to cheat you they don't care about it but you do. There are all of the other grey area actions like "was stolen". Eg think of anything a shady or just incompetent relative might do, same thing here.