Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

[alanfgag]

No, but they've raised fees thru the roof. So they got that going. It's to the point where it is too expensive to sell anything there any more.

It's even more expensive to buy.

 

[carouselvic]

No, but they've raised fees thru the roof. So they got that going. It's to the point where it is too expensive to sell anything there any more.

Was this meant to be a Yogiism?

 

[zetwal]

It's even more expensive to buy.

Indeed ...

 

[alanfgag]

Was this meant to be a Yogiism?

If the people don't want to come out and use ebay, nobody's going to stop them.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

It's to the point where it is too expensive to sell anything there any more.

True, but the brick and mortar option is even more expensive ... and my (mostly non-U.S.) customer base ain't looking much at Etsy.

 

[HatsEnough]

Was this meant to be a Yogiism?

If I knew what a "Yogiism" was, I could answer that question.

What I am saying is that every other month ebay raises its fees and it has gotten to the point where if you don't sell something for at least $50 clear profit it isn't worth putting it up.

 

[zetwal]

If the people don't want to come out and use ebay, nobody's going to stop them.

Huh?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

If I knew what a "Yogiism" was, I could answer that question.

It refers to baseball coach Yogi Berra, notorious for his mangled aphorisms. (Before Berra, Samuel Goldwyn did the same thing.)

 

[hatophile]

Huh?

Yogi-ism.

Way down upon the Swami River....

 

[HatsEnough]

Don't see how what I wrote was a "Yogiism," in any case. It was pretty clear, really.

 

[alanfgag]

Baseball... sorry, I forget that not everyone grew up in NYC breathing this stuff.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

On the West Coast, we had Yogi Bear instead.

 

[carouselvic]

Don't see how what I wrote was a "Yogiism," in any case. It was pretty clear, really.

"It's so crowded, nobody goes there."

 

[HatsEnough]

Oh, and I despise sports... all of them.... so that is why I didn't get the reference right away. But, I am familiar with the amusing misconstructions of Yogi Berra.

 

[delectans]

Huh?

Alan, a master of paradoxical contradiction like Yogi before him.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

It became necessary to destroy this thread in order to save it.

 

[hatophile]

If Ebay were perfect, it wouldn't be.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

WAR IS PEACE.

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.


(High school English class.)

 

[Rick Blaine]

Yogi~

fftopic:

"It's so crowded, nobody goes there."

My favorite - "You had better cut that pizza into just four pieces, cuz' I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

...or "You gotta go to other peoples' funeral or they won't come to yours'" :caked:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn: "Gentlemen, include me out."


A director told Goldwyn that a story he was considering was too caustic. Goldwyn replied: "The hell with the cost. If it's a good picture we'll make it."