The Original Master of Lies @Shoju@octodon.social

And with that broadcast, I have walk away from The Young Turks. What started out as a pretty interesting idea has just become this nauseating Fox News Level of Cringey stroke fest, where Progressives pull a Libertarian, and tell each other how much better than the rest of the world they are.

Cenk just openly stated that the GOP is not intelligent. Blanket, bold stroke statement, while ignoring all the progressives who jizzed over the idea of Oprah running.

Nothing good lasts forever I guess

People need to wise up, and wake up. Amazon is in this to get everyone buying from them. The Amazon Marketplace is not a "service" to other sellers. It's a way to thin the herd.

It's a necessary evil, and I don't think that Amazon started it with this mentality in mind.

But that's where we are. Amazon's interest is to be the Gorrilla in the room, and they'll choke out your business to do it.

Get smart people, or get run over.

/rant.

I wont be anywhere near the buy box. This guy, and all the dumbasses within 20 cents of him will, and they will lose money every time.

Eventually, these guys will have cannibalized each other, and will have to bow out of the market because of their losses.

Less Vendors, makes it easier for Amazon to strike deals directly with manufacturers.

At that point, Amazon can then push me out the door, because they are buying from the same source as me, and have a better shipping discount.

And, shipping it that way is going to leave a HUGE chance that the item tears the envelope, and gets lost. FC Mail has ZERO innate Insurance.

So,
15.99 - Amazon Fee = 13.59
13.59 - Shipping = 9.75
9.75 - Cost of Goods = -3.71

This is one product, out of over 100,000+ Products.

Each item that I've looked at from this seller is in the same place. Losing Money after actually buying the product.

And no. They aren't buying Surplus. The manufacturer in question doesn't bulk surplus inventory

The manufacturer that I'm currently working inventory up on has 2 price tiers. We have the best price tier. No one buys their goods cheaper than we buy them.

Product X has a cost of $13.46.
Seller Dumbass is selling it for $15.99 FBA Prime.

15% seller Fee on $15.99 is $2.40, leaving 13 cents above cost to pay for shipping, and make a profit.

Even in a manilla envelope, first class, said product would cost $3.84 at Commercial Plus Pricing through USPS, even on Prime.

Amazon has created the perfect way to destroy their competition, without the need to actively buy them out.

The Amazon Marketplace, and the sellers who operate on it are going to result in a large number of small businesses going bankrupt.

So many small businesses are trying to "Buy Box Chase" on Amazon, without paying attention to what their goods cost.

If you order your packages online, and you do not understand how shipping works, it is Not the seller's fault.

It's your fault for being an uneducated fuck.

Learn. Don't just "expect". Life works better when you put in some goddamn effort into understanding what makes the world work.

Congratulations to the dimwitted, uninformed, self interest hating voters who elected this spineless legislation that passed the biggest sham of a tax "cut".

When this bill stabs you in the back.
When your boss doesn't reinvest.
When your boss doesn't give you a raise
When your boss doesn't provide you with profit sharing

And you want to be angry, you have no one to be angry with but yourself.

You believed a lie. A willfull, purpose crafted lie.

My father is dying.

He was admitted to the hospital in acute pancreatitis. Since then, his liver, kidneys, and lungs, have joined the "Fuck you, i'm not going to work properly parade."

I always thought my dad was invincible growing up. reconciling that distorted vision with the man I see in front of me in a hospital bed covered in tubes, lines, and wires, restrained because he is disoriented, is heartbreaking.

And I had to say it.
But I don't feel better.

HOLY SHIT.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
HOW MUCH OF TRUMP'S DICK DID THIS GUY SUCK?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/politics/judicial-nominee-questions-flub/index.html

Worst part of my Day: Asparagus Piss.

One of the dishes served at the PotLuck had Asparagus. 20 Employees now have Dank Asparagus Piss.

The smell is catastrophic.

@craigmaloney They had to do something, it was a move that could have been company crippling, as the exodus could have been that first domino.

@craigmaloney They have been making some incredibly bad decisions lately.

The problem is, it's all above board, and in the EULA and TOS for the services.

As someone who runs a business that gives the USPS a LOT of money (I'm fairly confident that the only reason our small town post office is still open is the $$$$$$$ I shove in their wallet at this point) I'm actively looking at ways to cut down my USPS Footprint in response to their actions.

@MissSnarkerson Never has been. But then you've got guys like @catdad, who can't have a conversation with guns without trying to move the goalposts.

They think they're so fucking smart, but they just can't stay on task, and talk about one thing at a time.

I can bury people in a wave of statistics about how our death by firearms statistics are up 15%+ since 2000, but they don't want to read the CDC data. They regurgitate talking points from the NRA.

It's fucking nauseating.

Look Here.
I never said that I was anti Gun.

I simply stated my disagreement with the notion of an armed society being a polite society is total and utter bullshit.

I'm a gun owner.
But, I'm also a staunch advocate for Gun Law Reform.

Don't go jumping off track, and moving goalposts here, or I'll just send you off into the ether, and mock you on your way.

We're talking Armed Society is polite society.

Get back on topic, or Go the other way.

@catdad Also, bonus points for getting political on your "Personal account, for non political stuff"

I feel honored that you would break your own stipulation for little ol' me.

@catdad If you truly believe any of the garbage you just typed, you are just as stupid as the Conservatives Politicians and NRA in the United States think you are.

For all of the knuckledraggers that still believe an armed society is a polite society, I present you Exhibit A.

I'm prepared to present more exhibits, if you really need them.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/drivers-open-fire-houston-street-road-rage-incident/story?id=51640738

@starbreaker I completely understand. I often have to explain differences like that in e-Commerce to people who are "supposedly" experts

One side showed up threw Rocks, and one side showed up and fired live ammunition at rock throwers.

Are we sure that we're backing the right side here?