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by ikeboy 7y ago
The data shows the median net worth is around 100k. I'm very suspicious of claims about what the average American can afford based on surveys. Often they ask people how they would pay for something, and if the answer is "credit ca
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Profiteers and Pool Noodles: The Mask Market Is a Total Mess(nytimes.com)
2 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The CDC is recommending KN95 for healthcare workers and I know firsthand of multiple people selling them to hospitals. (I'm bringing some in myself to resell, am very familiar with the market.)
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by ikeboy 7y ago
By Tiffany Hu Law360 (March 25, 2020, 5:08 PM EDT) -- An Amazon third-party seller who was booted from the platform for allegedly selling counterfeit network products can't bring trade libel claims against a Wi-Fi device maker after a
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Amazon Seller Can't Pursue Trade Libel Claims in TM Dispute(law360.com)
1 points by ikeboy 7y ago|1 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
It's illegal to sell them directly to customers in the US as of now. You can buy them in bulk relatively easily.
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Amazon sellers brace for layoffs, worse after coronavirus products get priority(cnbc.com)
1 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I haven't seen them restrict anything yet. They're not a marketplace, just hosting websites and taking payments, so they've typically been far more hands off than Amazon/eBay.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Amazon isn't comparing the regular price of the seller, but on the product level. Also, Amazon this week banned all offers, not just ones that were deemed to be price gouging. eBay did the same already more than a week ago.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
To be specific, the market+price gouging laws+Amazon blocking listings because of those laws is suboptimal. If Amazon hadn't blocked the listings, and more to the point, if Amazon had been known to act reasonably in prior instances, th
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Have you subtracted all the losses on the products that didn't sell? When I sold on Amazon, every so often I'd be able to 10X my money on a product, but it was rare and balanced out by the many more times that I would lose money o
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by ikeboy 7y ago
He's not necessarily selling to the same region as it was bought from, as the original article mentions.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
And tens of thousands in losses for products that were stuck. As I mentioned in my comment on the original article, the required margin goes up to account for risk. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22576051
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Amazon and eBay banned all sales, regardless of price. Anyone relying on those platforms to sell products is stuck.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
It depends on the details. The recent NYT article about buying in stores and selling online mentioned that more than 50% of the sale price could be eaten up in shipping and other fees.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Several thoughts: 1. The point about them not actually making that much buying for $2 and selling for $20 is 100% valid. Amazon fees are $3, plus another $10 or so for shipping, plus labor, box, label, gas, etc. 2. On top of that, the busin
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I talked to this reporter, although my quote didn't make it into the article. About halfway through, he asked me my thoughts on the morality of selling face masks when the government was recommending against hoarding, and I realized it
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Because Amazon banned all sellers from listing hand sanitizer, wipes, and masks, regardless of the price. It's mentioned in the article.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>That's not what I said, in fact the study does the opposite. The study explicitly says it's lower risk because it's investing a lower amount. If there's a negative risk premium, then any strategy that invests less
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by ikeboy 7y ago
If there's no expected risk premium, then buying stocks has a 0 expected return, and it clearly doesn't matter how you buy them. > the total invested amounts at risk are different Obviously, you need to invest the same amount i
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Nope. Studies show it's riskier. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=820004 >Risk-averse investors who prefer dollar-averaging can accomplish the aim of risk reduction more effectively by loweri
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by ikeboy 7y ago
DCA is riskier and has lower returns than lump-sum investing.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I respect the troll job, and it shows some level of intelligence, competence, and humor. I've read a decent number of pro se complaints, including some brought by prisoners, and you could do a lot worse. I don't know if he'll
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by ikeboy 7y ago
My favorite thing about the case is how he sued the government for $50 billion for violating his 2nd Amendment rights and preventing him from becoming the next Bill Gates while in prison, and also for missing out on teaching his little brot
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Not quite - rates are going down not because people think they won't be paid back, but because they think their alternatives will return less due to lower growth and are shifting investments from there to bonds.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
This doesn't explain why rates change. The delta can only ever be explained by people choosing to buy bonds instead of what they previously owned, or vice versa. Those people are definitely not trying never to lose any money at any cos
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I assume you're aware that YouTube's policy explicitly says otherwise (if not, I've linked to sources elsewhere in this thread). Do you have any sources for the claim that YouTube is not following their own policy on honoring
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Why the Shop Safe Act is a mistake, and how to fix it(medium.com)
2 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
It may hurt you in that sense, but not the account. I think it's pretty clear what I meant by that. Regardless such cases are fairly rare, vast majority of cases I've seen people complaining about YouTube issues have nothing to do
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>I don't know what I would have done had they continued to dig in their heels. Either they would sue you or the claim would go away.

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