in the past month Martyn has bought 132 items ( and some of them some really
great deals !) to resell on ebay....

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ows=200&sort=3

I am still amazed how a product that no one wanted the first time will
become the obsession of everyones dreams a month later with a different
description !

mike maghakian wrote:

in the past month Martyn has bought 132 items ( and some of them some really
great deals !) to resell on ebay....

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ows=200&sort=3

I am still amazed how a product that no one wanted the first time will
become the obsession of everyones dreams a month later with a different
description !

It's known as marketing.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Wheeling & Dealing,,, a Wheeler Dealer.
OK,boy,just roll that two wheeler dolly load of radios over there by the
door,,, here's a quarter for ya,,, now go out and find me some more
radios to sell on ebay.
cuhulin

mike maghakian wrote:
in the past month Martyn has bought 132 items ( and some of them some really
great deals !) to resell on ebay....

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ows=200&sort=3

I am still amazed how a product that no one wanted the first time will
become the obsession of everyones dreams a month later with a different
description !

Given the volume of sales he makes on Ebay it would be very very
surprising if he DIDN'T buy an almost equal number of radios.

mike maghakian wrote:

I am still amazed how a product that no one wanted the first time will
become the obsession of everyones dreams a month later with a different
description !



Mike, that's the science of marketing. Creating desire. The economy
is based on it.

Essentially, it's manipulation of the emotions, disguised as logic or
common sense, to stimulate commerce.

You know: Bull****ting for profit.

If no one did it, we'd still be living in the 19th Century.

Not to say there aren't abuses. But the entire advertising industry
driving Western Culture is the business of modifying the facts to fit
the desired outcome. Nearly 100% of the laws regarding sales,
advertising and consumer protection are direct responses to abusive
marketing and deceptive advertising.

Martyn is only participating in a time honored tradition pioneered by
medicine show barkers, institutionalized by Barnum, canonized by Madison
Avenue, the mother church of which is Hollywood.

He's a huckster.

And there are no limit to the number who will fall for his nonsense.


"My dear old Uncle Litvack said,-- just before they sprung the trap
--, 'You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker and even break,
or smarten up a chump.'"


--W.C. Fields as Larsen E. Whipsnade

'You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.'