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  1. 04-19-2022, 08:07 PM #1
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    I have a 20+ years old account and I sold there, but I stopped years ago. I only go there to buy specific items in last resort and I only buy from Western Hemisphere (mostly North American only with some European exceptions) sellers. I totally fed up with the Chinese sellers. FeeBay always finds new way to get things worse and they don't care about salvaging their ship wreck. Amazon, their shipping cost chart is not good for smaller buys and it is not easy to screen good/bad sellers and to easily avoid the Chinese dropsellers. It seems that Facebook Marketplace is okay, but I am happy with the choice that I closed all my social medias. There's also some free classified sites such as Kijiji or Craigslist. Freecycle may also work well in BC, but it is not too popular here.

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    Yeah I can't stand the social media game. I use Whaleshares and that is it except I have Facebook for my business to have a page. It is very weird that I say on there several times to not send messages on Facebook as I don't check it and to call or email but when I do log in there are often messages.

    I have an auto response that says I don't respond to Facebook messages but they still leave them and don't call or email. Seems crazy to me.

    Whaleshares is a bit harder to get used to but is uncensored and decentralised so nobody can kick you off if they don't like what you say. It's a blockchain ecosystem that rewards people with a tradeable cryptocurrency called WLS. It's not worth a lot though. I just really like it there.
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