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It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

US-Regierung will Alibaba, Baidu und BYD als „chinesische Militärfirmen“ listen
Die US-Regierung führt eine Liste mit Unternehmen, die Chinas Militär helfen. Darauf sollten auch Alibaba, Baidu und BYD stehen, meint das Pentagon jetzt.

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5.60B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/28/softbank-stays-in-as-meesho-…

SoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India's first major e-commerce listing | TechCrunch
Meesho heads for India's first big e-commerce IPO next week.

Headphone Listening: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/28/headphone-listening.html

Headphone Listening
I have always enjoyed headphone listening, though until …

How to watch, listen to and livestream Raiders at Chargers https://www.raiders.com/news/how-to-watch-listen-to-and-livestream-las-vegas-raiders-at-los-angeles-chargers-nfl-week-13-113025

With the usual caveat about intelligence-ascribing and agency-hiding language like “knows” and “gaslighting:” this from @… is notable.
Why? It’s not as if Google doesn’t gather your IP-based location when you use their search…but they make no secret of that. Of •course• OpenAI has the ability infer your location. But they say they don’t, and yet apparently do, and are covering it up. •That• is notable.
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115630527105953949

I wrote a blog post again!
The style might be a bit different today. On location I made a lot of speech-to-text notes and tried to make a blog post from these.
At least it made it easier for me to remember what I felt on location. I think I'll do this note-taking more often. Especially when I don't reord videos.
Anyways. I hope you enjoy the photos and the reading.

Lunchtime Listening: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/27/lunchtime-listening.html

Lunchtime Listening
Fabric Live 2 music.youtube.com/watch

Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coinshares-pulls-p…