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On 2024-05-26 8:16 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>Had I known how annoying it was going to be to sell on Ebay, and how
much I would have to sacrifice of the price in fees, I might have just
kept it. The cut eBay takes is a crime.
I haven't sold anything on eBay for a while now. They've got everything
against the small seller.
It's precisely that. You'll put your item up for sale or a price, do
your best to be as accurate as possible, but you're at the mercy of the
buyer who will claim that there's a scratch, dent or whatever which
wasn't mentioned in the original ad. At best, they'll want a small
refund. At worst, they'll demand a complete refund but never send your
item back. People really have to be careful not to refund until they've
received their item back because people are definitely gaming the
system. In fact, that's what happened with this buyer whose behaviour
was sketchy from the beginning. He claimed there was a dent, wanted a
complete refund, didn't get his money back immediately because I
researched him and found out that he once never returned a laptop and
some music device, so he settled for a small rebate because he realized
that I wasn't going to allow him to have the machine for free.
>At work, I've become so annoying with telling the kids to put their
phones in their pockets that they do so at the sight of me. Some kids
actually asked me what I have against them. First, they're not supposed
to be using them in the hallways or certain rooms; there are designated
locations for their drug. However, the real reason is become the kids
have become shockingly uninteresting as a result of social media, and
they are in worse physical shape than a man three times their age (me).
I keep telling them that my confiscating that crap would be doing them a
favour.
I think kids are so used to not listening to anyone (including their
parents) that they become genuinely shocked when someone actually forces
them to do what they're told or obey the rules.
Yep, and they're not used to the fact that some teachers (me) don't mind
confronting them about their idiotic behaviour. Many of my co-workers
not only never show up for their monitoring duty (and I assume they
never get penalized either), but they do a half-assed job if they do.
They apply none of the rules, don't move from their initial position
(guaranteeing that someone will do something idiotic), and turn a blind
eye to kids using their phones right in front of them because they don't
want to be the bad guy. When the kids see that I am in their face and
that I don't care that they feel disrespected by my approach, they are
genuinely shocked.
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