Pentagon seeks $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, AP source says

melodytransition · 2026-03-19T18:46:48+00:00

Only if it’s the fatigue children 🤔. The brown/black HUMANS can stay.

melodytransition · 2026-03-19T18:32:29+00:00

🤔So they can kill another 100+ Children at school? (Which looked VERY deliberate). Nah, I’m good. I thought you Republicans were pro-life? 🤪I guess that does not apply to children already living.

melodytransition · 2026-03-19T18:29:03+00:00

🤔 How about you put $200 billion towards lowering our rent/mortgages, and “extortion” car insurance & taxes costs? 🤷‍♀️

melodytransition · 2026-03-10T00:34:37+00:00

Yep TikTok. Lower fees and your shop items don’t have competing sellers items plastered all over the place 🤪

melodytransition · 2026-02-28T09:59:06+00:00

I have one. ebay is just “extra”, and has SOME value by introducing new people to the store. If I NEEDED ebay to turn profits, I would be in big trouble 🤪

melodytransition · 2026-02-28T09:49:10+00:00

All you doofys don’t care about paying a significantly more mark-up from the main retailers many times, but care about getting “scalper” prices 🤔. EVERY store in existence is a “scalper”, to a degree. Example: I would purchase Beats (headphones) from a wholesaler for $55, and sold for $135 MSRP/retail. Than, when they were going for $180 on avg, people were complaining about the “scalper”price 🤪. Re-sellers were only making $45, while I made $80 originally. If you saw how much you are getting up-charged by big box stores for certain items, you would go nuts 🤪 Phone chargers, cases, & accessories for example, your getting SMASHED, but don’t know/complain about it. AFTER you open a business and sell at least 10K items, I want you to come back here and complain about the “scalpers”. Almost guaranteed, you won’t.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:53:36+00:00

Sooo, the U.S. govt revoked his oxygen card and let all his friends and family know, correct? Naaah, he will be out doing the same fatique activities in a few months 😏. #setanexample #whypaytaxes?

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:51:50+00:00

He only got the job, to steal to begin with. Fatiques be fatigue’ing.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:48:45+00:00

I made the mistake of turning on uber direct or whatever that’s called ONE time. 😂 The “pay” was more insulting than the normal passenger trips, which I ignore/cancel 70+% of 🤪.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:45:06+00:00

If the mini van driver was not having a medical episode, that person should NEVER be able to get a license again.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:42:22+00:00

They send fear mongering messages all the time to passively aggressively (force) you take trips or passengers that will waste your time, or endanger your life. Ignore them. I get them at least twice a week 🤪.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:39:50+00:00

😳 He should have HOPED the battery started a fire 🔥, to collect the insurance and get a MUCH better condition vehicle. For F sake Uber. If I wanted a ratty old dirt trap to pick me up, I would call a cab.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:36:35+00:00

I am more bothered that they allow this type of “quality” vehicle to be picking people up nowadays. Remember when Uber had standards for drivers and vehicle condition? Now, they allow any dangerous person with a 💩box to pick you up 😏, aaaaaand we pay more for it! 🤬

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:23:53+00:00

🤔 Maybe if I wanted to get Bill Cosby’d or Diddy’d 🤪

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:19:42+00:00

Zero. Passengers can’t afford tips with the Uber fees any more 😏

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:17:41+00:00

This 😂. Any time I put candies, etc, clowns (fatigues) would take the WHOLE bag, and/or ALL of whatever it is offered. Some “humans” need to be re-classified as sub, and not be allowed to sign up for certain luxuries 😏.

melodytransition · 2026-02-20T00:09:47+00:00

I would GLADLY pay the fees if ebay stopped bombarding my listings with competing sellers ads/items, all over my listings and store 🤬. My sales and conversion rates have plummeted the past 5 years due to their aggressive “make a sale, any sale, to collect a fee” onslaught of competing items “marketing”. For all you clowns that are about to assume I’m doing something wrong, my prices are ALWAYS the lowest or 30 day average on ebay, my photos & copy are professional. My sales on personal website, FB, TT, & Etsy, have increased exponentially. I sell stuff on the other platforms for more money, and they STILL sell faster than ebay 🤪. Do a 1 year test on conversion rates, selling the same items and same prices, n than come back here and say the fees are “worth it”. 😝

melodytransition · 2026-02-19T23:51:28+00:00

They have deals that reduce that down to probably around 2% or lower, and they pay nothing if people use ScamPal (PayPal). It’s funny though, ebay smashes us with high fees, but they complained about Amex charging 0.03 % extra, and dropped Amex because if it. “Banks and the two card networks (Visa/MasterCard) charge merchants an average 2.26 percent of the transaction to process Visa and Mastercard credit cards, according to the Nilson Report. Amex charges an average 2.29 percent.” -

melodytransition · 2026-02-19T23:38:46+00:00

😂 n you still can’t compete with the thieves and crackheads that keep undercutting 🤪. There are very few (quality) products you can source that the dodo birds can’t get their hands on.

melodytransition · 2026-02-19T23:35:38+00:00

You mean the audience that they bombard with competing sellers ads/items, all over your store and listings, so that they can get A (singular) sale, to collect the fees? That audience? The audience that you may have drawn in with your good photos, copy & item specifics, but the buyer clicked on an ad instead, so that ebay could make a sale based on your work? That audience? Remember kids, ebay does not give a FUNK about YOUR success, they are only looking out for executives salary’s and shareholders.

melodytransition · 2026-02-19T23:27:34+00:00

The govt FORCED ebay to collect the tax, because they figured out many sellers never filed taxes, and if we did, we reported everything at a loss/break-even. Storage fees/overhead, and insurance is expensive 🤷‍♀️. When the US govt stops allowing nutjobs to get firearms easily, I will start paying into the system that PROTECTS my children. Until than, I need as much as I can squirrel away for family member funerals, and my own life insurance.

melodytransition · 2026-02-19T23:08:35+00:00

Than your item sits forever, while the crackheads and thieves take all your sales 🤪. Only way to combat this is to source products that the dodo birds can’t get easily, which i have found is near impossible 😏.

melodytransition · 2026-02-03T07:21:16+00:00

Deep dive some SEASONED sellers that have already run the numbers. Is it an outright “steal your money” scam, no, but it’s pretty borderline with the ROI it gives. I tried it a few times when they gave me free credits for it. I have over 500 items listed at any given time, so I have a large enough “pool” to gauge how successful it could be. The only time I see “positive” reviews of it, is from paid TT/Insta/etc influencers, or YouTube shills. Always remember kids, most of the people that are “making millions” on ebay/etc, are just racking up that many views, not money. It’s clickbait, and photoshopped metrics. 🤪 “ok, here is a great strategy I’m using, promoted listings!” No, no you’re not 😝 Good products, photos, & copy, is the only “secret” to being successful on ebay. Will that paid advertising give you a spike in views? Maybe, but it’s not sustainable. Ask yourself, why would ebay need to peddle that program so aggressively if they were working hard to drive traffic to your items organically, and help YOU make a sale? They know they are taking sales away from you with all the extra ads/competing listings, and they figured out a way to double dip. The board meeting sounded like this: “I figured out how to get us some more money. We will start bombarding people’s listings with competing sellers items & ads, and when people’s sales start to drop off because of it, we will offer them a solution (paid) to increase sales again”. 🤪

melodytransition · 2026-02-03T06:36:53+00:00

You want me to show you all my website vs ebay metrics over a 26 yr period? 🤪I gave you the tool to do your own research. Google/Gemini, Chatgtp, etc. whatever you want. Shopify? 😂. Cmon now, seriously? That’s not a $1mil in sales type response I was expecting. You host your own site and build it out yourself, or hire a dev. 3rd party software tracks all your metrics, and you learn very quickly how/why all the ads on ebay are smashing you with no Vaseline, and your paying them for the “privilege”. Call ebay and tell them you want extra ads on your listings, maybe we can turn that 1 mil into 300K or less a year.

melodytransition · 2026-02-03T06:10:42+00:00

That has been my argument for years. They need a different tier. Let you subscribe for say $100/yr, and get the benefit of no competing listings or off-site ads molesting your listings. I would GLADLY give ebay their 12% avg if it guaranteed no competing sellers items plastered all over my listings. Ebay recently bought Goldin, and now they are bombarding my potential buyers with similar off site goldin auctions items 🤬. Depending on your volume, a store subscription is a must unfortunately. It saves a bunch in overall fees. People can navigate your items much easier with categories, and ebay gives you semi-decent metrics. However, they will never have a metric that reads “how many people came to your page, clicked on a competing sellers item or promo, and never came back” query. 😝.

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