It's normal that the most expensive version of something changes price less, often not at all, when other models are experiencing high inflation. The most expensive model is already the highest price the buyer can bear.
Cheapest 9070XT is now priced less than a mid-priced 9060XT.

Same with anything else; cheap milk doubled in price, but grass fed organic milk didn't change at all.
Cheap eggs quadrupled in price, pasture raised local eggs didn't change.

I paid $439.99 for my 9060XT in January, exact same model is $649.95 right now, a difference of $210,62.

Definitely a thing.

On the contrary, when you introduce your experience as relevant to a conversation then people's assessment of your experience is something they evaluate. That's why you share your experience; because you want others to take it into consideration. You'd have to be very simple-minded to think they'll just agree with you blindly without weighing your words.

Cast iron isn't unbreakable, and if you think it is that's very consistent with a person who packed it poorly, resulting in damage. Everything you say is just reinforcing that the system was working, you were a poor seller and rage-quit when people demanded you do better.

Yes. And... "duh?" Are you an idiot? (Don't answer that)

On most purchases it says, "Buyer pays return shipping." There is no financial gain by smashing something and then paying shipping to return it. They end up out their shipping, they lost money. So yes, you demand they return it and use their refusal to return it to win any dispute. And you put a comment on their feedback that they refused to return it. (And don't add additional insults that make you look bad, just give the relevant facts concisely)

It's not rocket science. There are lots of sellers who have huge numbers of sales, and they don't have the levels of bad buyers that the neckbeards on slashdot claim. Less than 1 in 1000. People who claim most of their buyers are trying to scam them are toxic sellers. In the case of the slashdot neckbeards it's probably unintentional; they're probably just too anti-social to comprehend what the normal "common sense" market expectations are for a seller. I mean, just click on their comment history.

Neither, it's just more popular right now.

Cyrix released their MediaGX CPU with integrated GPU (and audio chipset) in 1996.

I guess you'd be shocked to learn that that is actually an everyday occurrence. It's usually pronounced "Delphi" instead of "Pascal," though. It's popular in enterprise because it provides deep windoze integration at the same time as portability to mobile OSes.

You started strong but, as usual, you quickly went off the rails.

He's just an executive who got lucky who made a ridiculous buyout offer he can't finance so he can stay relevant. He's not "in power." He's in charge of a shitty little company that is failing slower than expected because they're popular with dude-bros and incels. He wasn't elected to anything, he isn't running for office, and the political system has nothing to do with this story at all.

I have about $500 of vintage tools I ordered from ebay in the mail right now. I've also got over a dozen camera lenses that I purchased on there.

They're a thriving business with a high profit margin, reasonable debt load, good cash flow, and consistent modest earnings growth.

I was picturing a woman with a lot of makeup and an affected smile typing loudly, measured. You know she can type twice that fast, but she knows everybody stopped to listen.

Most people only have access to that via websites, so checking a new password by transmitting it to a third party would be the worst thing they could do.

The argument that oppression is necessarily derived from fear is weak and falls down on analysis. Fear tends to result in withdrawal, not aggression. The flight response is vastly stronger in humans than the fight response.

It seems improbable that you can fight hatred by accusing it of being fear. It also seams improbable that you can win an argument by misrepresenting the intentions of the other side. Though I do understand, people assigned "male" at birth have a strong tendency to argue passive-aggressively by claiming the other person is weak.

It's hard to make an argument that people should respect each other by disrespecting people who currently disagree. Future development of respect then becomes increasingly unlikely the more you argue with them.

Probably because people assigned "male" at birth are much more likely to harm others when they're older than persons assigned "female" at birth. So regardless of where you align on the other issues you should be able to see that people with concerns about harm are going to focus on that.

Adding presumptive pejoratives all over the place just makes you hypocrite, which isn't a strong place to argue from.

Apparently the good buyers and sellers, which is why so many people have a positive view of it and it is a thriving business even with a lot of competition.

It sounds like you wanted to "round up" on your descriptions. Again, I've only heard your side of the story. And you don't sound like you have a legitimate grievance. You sound like you overcharged and the item was returned. All they get is their money back, and they're returning the item. They don't gain anything. Charging a boatload of money for shipping isn't because you're deserving of extra money, you're supposed to spend it on the packing materials and the time to pack it carefully.

Your story is an example of why I'm a happy ebay buyer. And there's a lot of us.

I've spent a few thousand on ebay in the past year, probably 30 items purchased, and the only item I had a problem with was a $10 used chisel that had a slight unreported bend in it.

You do have to carefully evaluate sellers and look at the listings with a skeptical eye, there's lots of things that I wanted to buy but didn't because I didn't trust it. 99% positive feedback might sound good, but it's actually horrible.

A couple years ago I bought a bunch of used vinyl albums and I had better results with ebay sellers than with the big music resale sites.

If the negative comments people are making here were true, very few of the items I purchased would have been for sale there.

And yet, it's the go-to place for vintage tool collectors. Many of the items are rather expensive. And the camera and gear market is also very active with a lot of valuable items.

You were "0 for 3" but there may be more to the story. Perhaps you were inexperienced with the items you were selling and you genuinely mislabeled the condition. Or you thought it was ok to just take pictures of the good angles and not the problem. Or you were selling something weird, like the other guy complaining that software was opened and returned.

And how do you get "ripped off?" The actual problem with an abusive buyer is they make an unreasonable demand and threaten you with a bad review. That's what the dispute resolution is for.

And then there's the "repeat that over and over again." Does that match up with an "0 for 3?"