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Re:When Carl Icahn Ran a Company: The Story of TWA by fringe01 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:10AM (#7428690)
This astonishes me. I can't think of any good reason for this except for lack of competition. Among everyone I know almost no one ever buy stuff of ebay anymore and the only people I can think of who use it are mostly scammers.
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Re:When Carl Icahn Ran a Company: The Story of TWA by woobar on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:26AM (#7429261)
I think it is a great place to get:

1. Cheap crap from Taiwan

2. Random appliances parts (when something breaks and all you have is a part number)

without giving your credit card to some Chinese or yet another made-in-90ties warehouse website.

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Re:When Carl Icahn Ran a Company: The Story of TWA by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:28AM (#7429292)
So, an app that lets you buy anonymously? Brilliant! Really! Just give your payment info to one site that you trust (because its all about trust and nothing else); they buy (maybe in bulk; maybe at a price break) FOR you.

What exists like this now? What market would be best served by this? Is your app in to YC yet?

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Re:When Carl Icahn Ran a Company: The Story of TWA by jedrek on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:54PM (#7430486)
Well it's a good thing you're not an eBay stockholder. I use it probably a dozen times a year to buy hard to find stuff. Stop thinking the world is you and your friends times a billion.
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