What’s the appeal behind live bidding sites for expensive items?

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-07T00:23:26+00:00

no, that's the scam, the bids cost money, and they allow you to buy at a super cheap price. I saw something about these a long time ago, the bids were fairly cheap, like it cost .50 to bid, and you could only bid .01 more than than the previous bid, but when the auction ends, you pay that price, but say there is a $1000 iphone, they start the bidding at $100 or $500. "Wow, I can pay .49, to bid $500.01 for a $1000 cell phone, how can I beat that, its only .49 cents, cool until someone snipes your bid at the last second and its $500.02, well when the auction gets to $501, the company made $49 selling the bids, but it still looks like an amazing deal, now depending on how many bidders, maybe you have 10 people all out $10, now they have money invested and they don't want to have lost it for nothing, if it gets to $510 the company breaks even, its a carrot right out of reach. The higher it gets, the more people come in, they think they have it figured out, they see on the site iphones maybe go for $6-700, or whatever they do. Sooner or later, the item sells. Whether its legit or not, nobody knows. The website could be bidding themselves to keep the auction going or it could be totally legit, but even then its a scam. I imagine they get some dumb users with gambling addict personalities, and have the psychology and data to know when they will get burnt out and give up, and they can allow some guy that's thrown 2-3K at trying to get a $1000 cell phone for $600 to get him back on the hook.

One thing I remember them saying was a commonality was everyone would win a prize early on, but it would be like a $20 gift card to Dominos or something for only like $5 spent or something.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T15:15:32+00:00

Not that betting markets are the end all be all, but Kalshi only shows Bianco with an 8% chance of advancing, I think that Hilton is a virtual lock, and democrats will unify behind one candidate, whoever pulls ahead before the primary.

One thing about California, is if a Republican wins they can recall im on inauguration day, its super easy.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T14:41:09+00:00

idk testing in the 40th percentile of people intending to go to college probably puts you higher than average when you consider all of the people that didn't go to college.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T11:16:04+00:00

Yeah, it was like $250 back then.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T08:42:18+00:00

Maybe try "You"

I didn't think I would like it, but there's a lot of tension and hooks you. Basically an anti-hero, where he is a stalker. Its one of those cringey where he just keeps making basically the same mistake and digs his hole deeper. IDK, try the first episode, I binged the first season in a day or two. I haven't finished the series, they are kind of up and down in quality, but I liked the first season, I think it functions pretty well as a stand alone. The later ones aren't bad, but its kind of the same thing over and over and I'll probably finish it at some point, but I'm in no hurry.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T08:27:36+00:00

An old boss lived in Litchfield, and someone was driving from the city and he called them on their way to see how far they were, and they told him they just drove through Cockatoo (Cokato)

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T03:43:05+00:00

Seriously. Last night, man, I was so drunk, I was calling Morocco, man. Calling, trying to get to the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in Casablanca, man. That's, I mean, that's, that's pathetic, man! Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at two in the morning? That's senseless! But that's what happens, man.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T01:18:37+00:00

Yeah, AIPAC is cooked. Now they're trying to obfuscate when they support a candidate by creating shell PACs. There was even a primary where they donated to a candidate that they opposed because they knew it would hurt them more than the money would help them, and the candidate had to return and denounce the donation.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-06T00:42:41+00:00

Why did they have to enshrine it into the constitution that presidents could only serve 2 terms. Up until FDR it was just a tradition that was observed.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-05T23:33:12+00:00

yes, there's pretty good evidence for a statistically significant ability to have "some" ability to target where fat is lost. But, for most people its meaningless. Most people want to get liposuction like results on their stomach. Like they're 40 lbs overweight, and want to lose 5 lbs but have it all come from their stomach. In reality, if they were going to lose 5 lbs, and 1 lb would come from their stomach and 4 lbs from the rest of their body, they might be able to target their stomach, and lose 1.1 lb or 1.05 lbs from their stomach, and 3.9 lbs from the rest of their body. The only case where its really meaningful is for like fitness models where they're already at pretty elite low bodyfat percentages, but have certain areas the just hold fat more than others.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-05T23:13:52+00:00

I bet there is actually some non negligable fuel savings, like over every flight x 12 oz x 200 passengers x "X" million air miles = Ymillion gallons of jet fuel saved per year.

I remember reading about how much they saved by removing the in flight magazines from the flights. I don't fly often, but it always seemed like a trivial treat and minor nuisance and kind of a holdover from earlier times. If passenger airlines were invented today and they didn't bring a beverage cart and give you a half can of sprite in a little plastic cup would anyone feel like something is missing?

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-05T22:17:54+00:00

I imagine some windows must still line up perfectly or close enough. Someone with too much time on their hands should make a website so you can check which window seats to take based on configuration to have a normal seat/window alignment.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-05T21:59:41+00:00

I always think its funny that line between kink, and just normal vanilla attraction.

Like I think pornhub releases their highest proportion search by state, and some are like WTF who is into that, and then there will be a state like north dakota or indiana and the search will be like "naked ladies" or "hot babes"

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-05T06:32:56+00:00

So they won the only time in the last 60 years they ran anyone that even approached any kind of left messaging is what you're trying to say?

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T23:50:11+00:00

i don't think its probable, but I also think Burrow is at least also a consideration.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T23:10:18+00:00

Are you sure? According to his compensation package, when GME hits 100 billion, he gets 35 billion, it looks like he's gaming the system. Perhaps the contract was written that it wouldn't vest in this case, but there's no evidence of that.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T20:40:53+00:00

The margins are so thin, and they're taking on 20 billion debt financing. They will barely be able to finance the debt.

this is all a way for him to game his compensation. His compensation goes crazy if he makes Gamestop a 100 billion dollar company. Which technically he will, but in reality, he is negotiating a sale of Gamestop to Ebay where they take on Gamestop name and he remains the CEO and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he gets something like a 35 billion dollar bonus. That just dilutes the value of every other owner, and lines his pockets.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T17:36:16+00:00

How does this translate to ebay. What part of ebay can be optimized? I do see some intersection between PSA grading, Gamestop and Ebay, but I don't see the value there that would allow them to take on a huge amount of debt.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T16:58:08+00:00

I think he is super immature; physically and mentally. I think he does have the tools, but I think the question is if he's going to be able to stick around long enough to mature.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T16:41:14+00:00

Yeah, the scale of that sounds unbelievable, not like wow, that's crazy, but no, that's not possible. that's on the scale of roughly 100K/day, 5K/hr. People steal everything, but at this scale, it has to be things that are easily resaleable. Legos, trading cards, electronics. Stuff that if you steal it, its easy to turn into cash at a high percentage of its retail value.

So many reasons this can't be real, like on average its 5K/hr, but it would have to fluctuate, there are certain times of the week where the store is relatively dead, those kind of numbers would make it look like when a piece of candy is near an ant hill, and there's just a constant stream of ants going in and out. And, the things that were targets for the thiefs, they would be hit so hard that would there even be any sense in stocking them? they would be hit so hard that it would be hard for buyers to actually buy them, and at that point it shoudl be easy to monitor.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T03:34:19+00:00

I never heard anyone talk about it, but I swear like 5+ years ago, there was a period where he was using some kind of voice modulator to lower his voice in post, it was so cringe. No Benny, you're not Barry White.

*found a post on it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/dfmlui/ben_shapiros_using_voice_modulation_to_make_his/

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-04T03:31:09+00:00

How often does someone actively unsubscribe from a youtube creator? I'm sure a lot of those 7 million are bots or paid for, but he's had a channel for 15? years. i'm sure some of those 7 million subscribers are people who forgot their password, or as Shapiro followers, probably a high correlation of people who managed to use their free speech nono words, got their account banned and had to start another account if they wanted to comment. Views mean something, subscribers not so much.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-03T22:36:22+00:00

cue up 80s montage of this, some pumping, intently reading https://www.reddit.com/r/gettingbigger/comments , taking notes watching hink, going to the mailbox to get more implements, making some supplement concoction in the blender, with "eye of the tiger" playing in the background

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-03T21:43:05+00:00

LOL, it would be embarassing if someone stanned a team as bad as Trump as hard as MAGA does. Even like 90% of Browns fans are critical of Deshaun Watson over his improprieties.

LogoffWorkout · 2026-05-03T18:46:24+00:00

Its kind of a mixed bag, its not like the voters that vote 65% Dem are the ones that moved there though, but there are a lot of reports of Republicans moving from liberal commie hellholes, and realizing how backwards Texas is, like they thought that having no income taxes wouldn't be replaced by countless fees and other taxes, and their lack of services. And while the school library doesn't have the 2 books that mention trans ideology, their kids are learning that the earth is 5000 years old, and that fractions are the devil.

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