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Re:Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift by kjkjadksj on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:51PM (#36646841)
If you want to take a lot of a thousand products from aliexpress and sell them globally on the internet, ebay is your platform. If you want to sell something of yours locally or rent a local apartment, craigslist is your platform. These platforms reflect these usages when you browse them. Local results from people who just want to move a single item in their home vs some global drop shipping arbitrage opportunity will always be of higher quality.
Re:Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift by pessimizer on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:04PM (#36648178)
> Local results from people who just want to move a single item in their home vs some global drop shipping arbitrage opportunity will always be of higher quality.

Sometimes you want one of those Chinese paper cutters, or reasonably priced leather tools. Ebay is mostly good, despite itself. They've also barely changed the UI in my memory, and I've got a 20 year old account.

Re:Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift by kjkjadksj on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:23PM (#36684201)
I will agree on that. If I want a random thing, there will be the same product dropped shipped on both sites but usually ebay comes out a few dollars cheaper.