Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
by hirundo on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:47PM
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Apparently you took the flea market comparison as disparaging and it was intended that way. Why? What's wrong with flea markets? I shop there regularly and have sold there many times. I usually get great deals there on either side of the transaction. I can say the same about Ebay. For Ebay to be a kind of vast internet flea market seems like a good thing.
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Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
by msla on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:49PM
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> Why? What's wrong with flea markets?
Low-quality goods and the increased possibility of scams.
Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
by hirundo on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:58PM
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I get plenty of low quality goods at Walmart and Amazon too, and plenty of scams as well. Sometimes it's the cheap goods I'm there for, and I don't expect high quality for that. Caveat emptor applies everywhere.
The problem comes when you don't realize you're digging through crap looking for pearls and imagine that it's all pearls.
Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
by chillacy on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:48PM
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It reads even more disparaging with context:
> Nowhere. There's no other amazon. Ebay? The flea market of the internet? That's where people who wanted to sell to wal-mart go.
If I wanted to make it sound good I'd call it a bazaar or something.