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If it works, it means you can reinvest your profit to live up to your claimed size. In regards to other employees, yes it can cause some problems, but I doubt

by vaksel 16y ago

If it works, it means you can reinvest your profit to live up to your claimed size. In regards to other employees, yes it can cause some problems, but I doubt it'd be that much...fake it till you make it is a pretty popular phrase, so people understand when you put it to use...especially when starting out. In regards to your site, your metrics don't actually sound real. If I saw those, I'd think you were just giving me fake info. In regards to taking the high road, I feel like it's something promoted by those who are already financially secure. Pretty much every company that started from nothing did unethical shit to get ahead early on...whether it's spamming, or faking their stats. I mean, even in your example, you say "buy cheaper desks",and talk about employees...but most companies start with nothing, where the founder isn't even making $500 a month, let alone the $2-5K/mo to pay an employee.

johnnyg 16y ago
If my metrics look too good to sound real, want to buy a website? You know for a fact its owner undervalues it. ;-)
- vaksel 16y ago
  i didn't say too good to be real, i said they look fake. 1-it says you have 20K users, but the powersellers are all in the 18-20K range...and a random look at a dozen profiles before that yielded nothing. 2-items for sale, the front page item has 3 featured items, they don't change, has to be pretty dead if you aren't even changing the featured items. 3-those featured items, lead to items, the top # is 103008, my guess is that the first 2 #s are just being added automatically, so the total is something like ~3,000 listings(and I bet it's lower than that, since I doubt you started at 100000). So at 99K bids, that's ~33 bids per item...and with $1.7 million in sales, that's an average price of $566...and that's assuming every item got sold. 4-i sorted by bids, and there are a total of 41 bids, across the entire site. And that's with a 14 day listing time. If you have 14 bids in two weeks, I find the 99K total bids # suspicious. So yeah, it sure seems like you are doing the exact same thing you are complaining about

by vaksel 16y ago

johnnyg 16y ago

If my metrics look too good to sound real, want to buy a website? You know for a fact its owner undervalues it. ;-)

vaksel 16y ago
i didn't say too good to be real, i said they look fake. 1-it says you have 20K users, but the powersellers are all in the 18-20K range...and a random look at a dozen profiles before that yielded nothing. 2-items for sale, the front page item has 3 featured items, they don't change, has to be pretty dead if you aren't even changing the featured items. 3-those featured items, lead to items, the top # is 103008, my guess is that the first 2 #s are just being added automatically, so the total is something like ~3,000 listings(and I bet it's lower than that, since I doubt you started at 100000). So at 99K bids, that's ~33 bids per item...and with $1.7 million in sales, that's an average price of $566...and that's assuming every item got sold. 4-i sorted by bids, and there are a total of 41 bids, across the entire site. And that's with a 14 day listing time. If you have 14 bids in two weeks, I find the 99K total bids # suspicious. So yeah, it sure seems like you are doing the exact same thing you are complaining about