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April 2025 wrap up

ebay:
$1,115.68 gross
$684.97 net

Replacements:
$200.00 gross
$171.21 net
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Sounds like illegal kickbacks were involved. As I said, that's not allowed....

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Pharma companies will hire doctors as speakers for their products, having them present at dinners or conferences to promote the products, so docs can...

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One of the things I've learned that resells for good money is specialty DVDs like craft and hobby instructional stuff. I just sold one last night - a...

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Certainly no surprise. You can't enact the largest peacetime tax increase in history without damaging the economy.

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While doctors don't get kick backs for prescribing certain drugs, they may get incentives for meeting certain quality of care metrics, if that's what...

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This is absolutely wrong. Doctors do not get kick backs for prescribing certain medications. That would be illegal. In fact, 90% of prescriptions written...

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People have joked about this and some are pointing out that TP is mostly made in the US so it's not affected. What those folks are missing, though, is...

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Generally speaking, I think promoting is a sham that does little more than generate more income for ebay. I'm in a couple of large ebay seller groups...

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That's a 7.5% increase in 2 months so that's pretty significant. It doesn't sound like much on a low cost item but it is when you look at the percent...

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I heard on the news today that Temu is passing along all or most of the increased taxes. Shein raised prices as much as 377% which seems extreme but that's...

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They were all shipped Media Mail, which actually starts at $4.63, not $3.26. Buyer pays postage so that's no issue. I did ship the set of 4 ($175 sale)...

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I sold the last of those books the other day. Total sales for the 9 books came to $559. Not quite as much as I had initially thought but I'm very happy...

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Congratulations! How exciting....

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One other thing is that we really favor rooms that have somewhere to sit besides the bed, so we generally get a place that also has a sofa and maybe a...

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Years ago when we were young and broke, we went with what was affordable, like the $19.95/night EconoLodge on the outskirts of town. As our means changed,...

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Exactly. When people hear "cereal" do they think shredded wheat or do they think Lucky Charms. One has 7gm of fiber, 0gm of sugar, and 6gm of...

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That's pretty condescending. Are you a mental health professional? If not, please don't go around dispensing medical advice. And if you are a professional,...

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Exactly. We can talk about what the market is doing, what interest rates are doing, the price of gold, etc. But asking what's behind it all is where it...

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About 6 months ago I bought a set of china at a local auction. I paid $60 and sold a bunch of it to Replacements for $319. There were a bunch of pieces...