Wimminz – celebrating skank ho's everywhere

Many many moons ago I was both a user and an avid fan of fleabay, fifteen years ago it has to be said it was fucking awesome, doing exactly what it said on the tin, and connecting buyers and sellers… I bought and sold everything from vehicles down to small stuff, and from memory don’t have any regrets.

Some time later I even embarked on using it as the basis of a business / regular income, and that worked too for a while, but the whole being nickel and dimed to death by fees was rearing its head, so the writing was on the wall.

Last week I was looking for two or three things, so for the hell of it fired up fleabay, it seemed to be a roughly even three way split;

• stuff that not so much looked like it should be sent to the dump, as looking like it was found on the dump, being advertised for insane prices.
• stuff that nobody in their right mind would buy used, like electrical MCB’s and other components, for way too much money, but still not enough to justify listing fees etc
• stuff that isn’t up for auction at all, allegedly new direct from supplier, but vastly overpriced.

basically everything that made ebay awesome and PERSONALLY USEFUL AS A RESOURCE 15+ years ago has been killed in the name of monetizing everything possible, and now we have fleabay, no longer fit for purpose…. it’s a good place to go to get ripped off by people who think a rusty body shell is worth 10k, or a 1975 capacitor is worth 1.99….

I see a lot of parallels to this in other areas of life and society, we’re sucking the soul out of everything in the name of profits NOW, and I am not just talking about ways of doing business, I am also talking about the people themselves.

If you’re just out there to milk the shit out of everyone you provide services to as a book keeper / accountant, then why waste any time or effort getting any skills or knowledge or competence, all that counts is billing people, because that’s where your income comes from, the invoice, not the work it is supposed to be based on, because THAT is a cost source.

For example I can go to the police.uk website, pick an area, pick a month, and see what crimes were reported, and what the outcome was… in my area as a resident and business owner things like burglary concern me, and what I see is case after case after case that basically gets dropped, I don’t see any where a suspect was detained, charged and prosecuted.

If I was a crook, I wouldn’t just be using fuckbook to identify local talent, I’d also be using the police website to identify the risk of me being caught, and apparently around here the answer to that is “fuck all” so basically you have to turn everything into a zombie apocalypse and burglar proof fort knox…. and that shit costs time and money, even if you are an engineer and can realistically consider building your own jail to live and work inside…. po-po used to have 3 levels of response to intruder alarms, now they have two, one level is a response, if they have any units available etc, and if you haven’t had more than three “false” alarms in the past 12 months, and by “false” they mean they eventually turn up and can’t see anything amiss, so easy enough to hack / engineer that into invalidity, and the other level is no response, not even if someone rings in to say the alarm across the road has been going off for 6 hours, when seconds count, po-po are only days away….

… so it’s not like you can take a “fire door” approach and build a security system that DELAYS the criminals long enough to get nabbed, hence my earlier comment about the zombie apocalypse scenario.

The other thing is even failed attempts to get in cost you money, invariably they break or damage stuff in the attempt, and very little of this stuff is built to be repaired in modules or sections, nah mate, you need a whole new shutter door system innit… the car analogy being they try to jimmy the door locks and ignition to steal your car, manage to gain entry and damage both locks, but the car is still there, so the response is to scrap the whole fucking car and buy an entirely new one.

Then they start on the upselling, here is level 0, your insurers won’t give a fuck if you fit that or lace curtains, level 1 well it’s OK, level 2 is better, level 3 is “approved” by po-po (remember, those guys who won’t turn up anyway) level 4 is for VIP’s, blah blah blah….  yeah, some 30 x 12 flat bar and some 20 mm round bar and a stick welder and you can make something pretty damn secure, go up to 50 x 25 flat bar and 30 mm dia bar and even the shit with the portable battery disk cutter better bring several spare batteries, and you can always weld the fucker up again if it suffers any damage.

level 3 is just a 99 buck ebay garden gate with a sticker on it that says police approved security product and some rebranding that increases the list price to 950 bucks, that “police approval” and a buck will get you a coffee…. and like the 3.99 watch you bought on vacation, all the literature will talk about how it will “resist” shit like hacksaws and bolt cutters and so on, nary ever any mention of the battery disk cutter, but that resist means as much as me “resisting” the temptation to bang some 16 year old slut with big tits and spread legs saying do me daddy, do me in the ass… it’s good for 15 seconds maybe… and that’s on video, in ideal circumstances.. at all other times maybe 2 seconds.

But getting back to the fleabay tat, it seems everything you touch nowadays is crap, so the next thing to disappear from amazon will be the fairly straightforwards returns system, because apparently the growth in numbers of people returning shit is the most significant factor in the business, they may well make the 200 billion turnover, the same 200 buck item returned a billion times and a replacement resupplied…. bingo, 200 billion turnover.

Profits? What the fuck are they?

Interestingly (to me at least) I thought fuck me, if BMC minis are going for thousands then maybe I should see what my bike is worth, gotta be 30-40k at least going by that metric, and there are only 2 listed, and neither one is a “real” one, one is an injection and the other is messed with, and the prices aren’t really higher or lower, maybe a bit lower, but within a thousand or so, so it seems completely random what is being sold for what, I certainly couldn’t browse fleabay for a few hours and come up with some idea of how the economy is doing…

And I guess that that is the takeaway from all this, nothing seems to be connected to anything or based in anything, basically to anyone stuck in a time capsule since 1990 every single thing you can find looks like fraud.