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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    We spent Black Friday totally off the grid. Didn't even miss my 'puter which shocked me.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    I'm also curious how this data is aggregated. Zoom in to Chicago, for instance, and you'll see it has practically no activity, which makes no sense at all.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    The linked site says the color corresponds to transaction activity (yellow = light, red = heavy). How did you get from there to sellers vs. buyers?
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Yeah, it's just e/w volume, which makes this rather meh. And a relief, we have enough problems without running a trade deficit with rural America.
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    Image of taco-flavored-kisses taco-flavored-kisses
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: yeah exactly. In fact, I would imagine that a huge percentage of ebay items SOLD now come from urban warehouses and operating centers (which includes the so-called coastal elite here) as selling on ebay has become increasing more a corporate opportunity to sell in bulk or push inventory.

    The point of this article is based entirely on an assumption...

    ..though the graphic is fun to ponder.
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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: If you hover over the dots it shows you the number of buyers versus sellers in that dot. Many more sellers in no-mans-land.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    @friend_of_a_friend: I'm not saying that rural areas aren't seller-heavy (that may be the case, based on information from other sources), but we can't infer that from the data shown from the linked site. Hover over a few urban areas (Washington DC and Houston TX are among the ones I found) and you'll see that red doesn't necessarily indicate more buyers than sellers.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/03/09

    @Claire Buoyant:
    DC doesn't count, they're selling influence.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    This is interesting because usually the sale of a Bill of Goods goes the other way.
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    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Lots of attics full of stuff out there I guess.
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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hannity, Limbaugh, Maddow, Olbermann, Beck, Obama, Palin, Unicorns, Pancakes
    I don't think I could be more confused.
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hannity, Limbaugh, Maddow, Olbermann, Beck, Obama, Palin, Unicorns, Pancakes
    I can die a happy troll now.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hannity, Limbaugh, Maddow, Olbermann, Beck, Obama, Palin, Unicorns, Pancakes
    And on the seventh day Lacey ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    11/19/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: It is good.
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    Image of blix blix
    11/19/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: And it was good.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/06/09

    In reply to Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling
    Not ONE "the lurkers are with me?" #skype
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/06/09

    In reply to Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling
    This is exactly like the notes we passed in junior high! Exactly! Somebody said something and somebody else scoffed and that one came back and roared and then another one said he didn't get the message. There's nothing new under the sun, but I think Mardou was more incisive way back when ... #skype
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    10/13/09

    In reply to eBay Layoffs Rumored for Thursday
    Who gets severance packages nowadays? Oh yeah, investment bankers who lose money and no longer have jobs.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    10/13/09

    In reply to eBay Layoffs Rumored for Thursday
    "A rumor also spread that laid off workers would get no severance.

    Who said greed was a thing of the past.
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/06/09

    In reply to Layoffs Loom at eBay
    I would like to also add that if the morons responsible for poor business decisions like the ones "executed" at eBay were fired immediately, instead of the repercussions raining down on the rank and file, more companies might be run in a more proper manner.

    It's always the ones with the most to lose that have to pay the price for poor management.
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    Image of BeeGee BeeGee
    10/06/09

    In reply to Layoffs Loom at eBay
    "Jack: This is GE!
    Davon: It’s just G now, Jack, I sold the E. To Samsung. They’re Samesung now"

    Bay?
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/06/09

    In reply to Layoffs Loom at eBay
    Yeah, well, when they starting jacking up user fees and running PayPal like an online loan shark/mafia outfit, you could pretty much see this coming.
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