#resale app

[nyc-looks]

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[foliejpg]

can pete have a low tier scandal so tickets to msg drop please and thank you

#me checking various resale apps daily

[abbaswift]

daily searching for taylor tickets on ticketmaster and axs, trying not to remember when i almost got two centre middle bowl tickets for the price of one nosebleed resale ticket 💔💔

#if you saw my account on that day omg i was a wreck #it kept saying my details weren’t valid so instead of immediately going to my grandad for his card i kept trying with mine #and eventually i used his card #and it literally got to the point where you have to confirm the payment with your bank app #and as he tried to confirm it THE TIME HAD RUN OUTTTTTT #and i lost those tickets #i had nosebleeds for rep tour which was still enjoyable but i wanted SO bad to get closer seats #also back then i was planning to do exams through may and june so i was really limited with uk dates #so i had to try for august london dates which wasn’t ideal #because it’s london and it’s the summer holidays and the hotels are so expensive anyway #but now i’m not doing those exams (long story) so i’m more free to go to other uk dates like liverpool and cardiff #even edinburgh if necessary as i have family nearby #but i can’t find two reasonably priced tickets on resale for love nor money and time is running out #ive got london tickets for august but it’s increasingly likely i won’t be able to go #so YEAH. #help

[vympr]

what are ur fav brands for good quality plus sized jeans besides american eagle cuz honestly they're rly not my style

#I heard eloquii so Ive been searching up some used ones on resale apps but I wanna ask the people

[knuckleduster]

in a slightly different timeline id be a depop reseller by now

#i have actually become a depop buyer. #like in a general sense not necessarily from depop specifically just resale apps

[storybook-souls]

bleachers tickets GOT.....

#i am so so so so so excited...... #that's the band where i would have paid a billion dollars resale if i had to and i don't even have to.... #now i can just look at my little ticketmaster app and see fob and bleachers right next to each other. hanging out #awesome spring 2024 for me (unless i end up skipping fob to see the eclipse instead. which will also be awesome.)

[killstreak-kritzkrieg]

Pls Help

It’s been a very rough week, and I am in need of help raising some money. I have made a previous post on the matter, but it was lengthy, poorly worded, and I made it while panicking. It’s been a few days, so I had time to calm down and collect my thoughts and focus on what I need now.

Long story short, I just spent my entire savings on saving our house, helping my mom catch up on bills and rent. We’re still behind, but we’re in a much better position than we were before. Earlier in the week my mom’s car broke down, and it’s kaput. She needs a new car. I’ve been driving her to work, but my car was borrowed from my dad, who, turns out, is also at risk of losing his house. Literally the day after I spent all of my savings, he called me and said he wants my car back for resale, and after explaining my situation to him, he has given me a few more months to save enough money to get a new car. So the one car my mom and I have between each other is also going to be taken away soon. There is no possible way for us to walk to work, as our jobs are out of town, and we live in the USA where public transit is nonexistent.

So here’s what I need:

My goal is to raise $5000 USD by October 1st. If the goal isn’t met, I could extend that to November 1st. Any later though, I may not be able to extend any more. This money will go to getting a new car. I work part-time and make little more than $1000 a month, and I need to pay bills on the side, so I would be heavily relying on you guys to help me. I will be raising $400 a month myself to add to savings, the rest going to bills and important things like food. Every dollar that is donated through the links below will be going to my car savings.

Cash App: $SRockford96 Paypal: [email protected] Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/andraws Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/forestinchaostcg (on hiatus)

$1936/$5000 raised as of 9/30/2023

#Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! #I super duper appreciate it!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23931463/ifttt-amazon-alexa-applets-ending-support-integration-automation

Amazon can do this because the Alexa's operating system sits behind a cryptographic lock, and any tool that bypasses that lock is a felony under Section 1201 of the DMCA, punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. That means that it's literally a crime to provide a rival OS that lets users retain functionality that Amazon no longer supports.

This is the proverbial gun on the mantelpiece, a moral hazard and invitation to mischief that tempts Amazon executives to run a bait-and-switch con where they sell you a gadget with five features and then remotely kill-switch two of them. This is prime directive of the Darth Vader MBA: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

So many companies got their business-plan at the Darth Vader MBA. The ability to revoke features after the fact means that companies can fuck around, but never find out. Apple sold millions of tracks via iTunes with the promise of letting you stream them to any other device you owned. After a couple years of this, the company caught some heat from the record labels, so they just pushed an update that killed the feature:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/30/apple-to-ipod-owners-eat-shit-and-die-updated/

That gun on the mantelpiece went off all the way back in 2004 and it turns out it was a starter-pistol. Pretty soon, everyone was getting in on the act. If you find an alert on your printer screen demanding that you install a "security update" there's a damned good chance that the "update" is designed to block you from using third-party ink cartridges in a printer that you (sorta) own:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Selling your Tesla? Have fun being poor. The upgrades you spent thousands of dollars on go up in a puff of smoke the minute you trade the car into the dealer, annihilating the resale value of your car at the speed of light:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/how-to-fix-cars-by-breaking-felony-contempt-of-business-model/

Telsa has to detect the ownership transfer first. But once a product is sufficiently cloud-based, they can destroy your property from a distance without any warning or intervention on your part. That's what Adobe did last year, when it literally stole the colors from your Photoshop files, in history's SaaSiest heist caper:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

And yet, when we hear about remote killswitches in the news, it's most often as part of a PR blitz for their virtues. Russia's invasion of Ukraine kicked off a new genre of these PR pieces, celebrating the fact that a John Deere dealership was able to remotely brick looted tractors that had been removed to Chechnya:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

Today, Deere's PR minions are pitching search-and-replace versions of this story about Israeli tractors that Hamas is said to have looted, which were also remotely bricked.

But the main use of this remote killswitch isn't confounding war-looters: it's preventing farmers from fixing their own tractors without paying rent to John Deere. An even bigger omission from this narrative is the fact that John Deere is objectively Very Bad At Security, which means that the world's fleet of critical agricultural equipment is one breach away from being rendered permanently inert:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

There are plenty of good and honorable people working at big companies, from Adobe to Apple to Deere to Tesla to Amazon. But those people have to convince their colleagues that they should do the right thing. Those debates weigh the expected gains from scammy, immoral behavior against the expected costs.

Without DMCA 1201, Amazon would have to worry that their decision to revoke IFTTT functionality would motivate customers to seek out alternative software for their Alexas. This is a big deal: once a customer learns how to de-Amazon their Alexa, Amazon might never recapture that customer. Such a switch wouldn't have to come from a scrappy startup or a hacker's DIY solution, either. Take away DMCA 1201 and Walmart could step up, offering an alternative Alexa software stack that let you switch your purchases away from Amazon.

Money talks, bullshit walks. In any boardroom argument about whether to shift value away from customers to the company, a credible argument about how the company will suffer a net loss as a result has a better chance of prevailing than an argument that's just about the ethics of such a course of action:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Inevitably, these killswitches are pitched as a paternalistic tool for protecting customers. An HP rep once told me that they push deceptive security updates to brick third-party ink cartridges so that printer owners aren't tricked into printing out cherished family photos with ink that fades over time. Apple insists that its ability to push iOS updates that revoke functionality is about keeping mobile users safe – not monopolizing repair:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

John Deere's killswitches protect you from looters. Adobe's killswitches let them add valuable functionality to their products. Tesla? Well, Tesla at least is refreshingly honest: "We have a killswitch because fuck you, that's why."

These excuses ring hollow because they conspicuously omit the possibility that you could have the benefits without the harms. Like, your tractor could come with a killswitch that you could bypass, meaning you could brick it at a distance, and still fix it yourself. Same with your phone. Software updates that take away functionality you want can be mitigated with the ability to roll back those updates – and by giving users the ability to apply part of a patch, but not the whole patch.

Cloud computing and software as a service are a choice. "Local first" computing is possible, and desirable:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

The cheapest rhetorical trick of the tech sector is the "indivisibility gambit" – the idea that these prix-fixe menus could never be served a la carte. Wanna talk to your friends online? Sorry there's just no way to help you do that without spying on you:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/08/divisibility/#technognosticism

One important argument over smart-speakers was poisoned by this false dichotomy: the debate about accessibility and IoT gadgets. Every IoT privacy or revocation scandal would provoke blanket statements from technically savvy people like, "No one should ever use one of these." The replies would then swiftly follow: "That's an ableist statement: I rely on my automation because I have a disability and I would otherwise be reliant on a caregiver or have to go without."

But the excluded middle here is: "No one should use one of these because they are killswitched. This is especially bad when a smart speaker is an assistive technology, because those applications are too important to leave up to the whims of giant companies that might brick them or revoke their features due to their own commercial imperatives, callousness, or financial straits."

Like the problem with the "bionic eyes" that Second Sight bricked wasn't that they helped visually impaired people see – it was that they couldn't be operated without the company's ongoing support and consent:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

It's perfectly possible to imagine a bionic eye whose software can be maintained by third parties, whose parts and schematics are widely available. The challenge of making this assistive technology fail gracefully isn't technical – it's commercial.

We're meant to believe that no bionic eye company could survive unless they devise their assistive technology such that it fails catastrophically if the business goes under. But it turns out that a bionic eye company can't survive even if they are allowed to do this.

Even if you believe Milton Friedman's Big Lie that a company is legally obligated to "maximize shareholder value," not even Friedman says that you are legally obligated to maximize companies' shareholder value. The fact that a company can make more money by defrauding you by revoking or bricking the things you buy from them doesn't oblige you to stand up for their right to do this.

Indeed, all of this conduct is arguably illegal, under Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits "unfair and deceptive business practices":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

"No one should ever use a smart speaker" lacks nuance. "Anyone who uses a smart speaker should be insulated from unilateral revocations by the manufacturer, both through legal restrictions that bind the manufacturer, and legal rights that empower others to modify our devices to help us," is a much better formulation.

It's only in the land of the Darth Vader MBA that the deal is "take it or leave it." In a good world, we should be able to take the parts that work, and throw away the parts that don't.

(Image: Stock Catalog/https://www.quotecatalog.com, Sam Howzit; CC BY 2.0; modified)

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure

#pluralistic #alexa #ifttt #criptech #disability #drm #revocation #nothing about us without us #futureproofing #graceful failure #darth vader MBA #enshittification

[getluckylana]

just wanted to let you know I am an icu registered nurse from nyc. I love your style so much and made a tumblr again like I did back in hs just so I can have the best fashion inspirations and I do the same on Pinterest. I literally dress up coquette/girly pop Y2K/romantic cottage core on my days off from wearing scrubbies. I really admire how much you have been become your own person, own it and have grown as an individual. Here’s some fashion related questions I wanted to ask you: #1) Favorite brand for purses?

#2) if you could wear 1 brand only for a year which brand would it be? #3) which material of clothing is your favorite? For me I am trying to buy more cotton dresses as opposed to polyester for summer so I don’t have to feel like I need to change 10 min after going out in the heat? Hby?

#4) favorite runway fashion show? example could be Chanel’s 1994 runway show for winter or Prada show in 2001 summer

#5)I sell on poshmark and have been for years and it is my go to for shopping too! Do you shop on there also or do you prefer depop?

#6)I am trying to not incorporate jeans anymore into my fashion I literally only wear dresses, skirts or pants that are like trouser/casual work style or linen pants or hosieries with my skirts. How do you incorporate jeans that can still have that coquette/romantic style?

Thank you if you do answer my questions btw! :) 💕

Why thank you my cheeky nurse friend!

1) Delvaux for everyday wear ( fun fact they are the oldest luxury brand in the world! followed closely by Hermes and Loewe)

But I also collect 2000’s Miu Miu purses, they are much more fun and youthful than the bags they produce now!

2) this includes vintage right? so I would chose Miuccia Prada( that covers Miu Miu and Prada after she took over) all the vintage nylon pieces, Prada sport and 2000’s Miu Miu.

3) I prefer natural fibers.

4) I couldn’t choose ever? But probably something early Margiela, the show that he introduced the tabbies. He put wet paint on the bottom of the shoes to walk on a solid white runway and leave behind the split toe print on the cat walk. Iconic moment. He was a great mind.

5) Depop the most, but I use all the resale apps, and I thrift in every city/country I go to.

6) I hate jeans and always have haha. They are uncomfortable and they ruin the outfit. I recently found these capris on Depop with bleached prints on them. They are flattering and girly. Here’s a pic:

It was nice chatting with you <3

[mayakern]

Do you know if there’s like an exchange/resale community for your skirts? (Google yielded no results.) I’ve been re-buying some patterns bc I like the new manu better, but now I have duplicates and not enough closet space, and I’d rather offer them to Maya Kern enthusiasts than try to sell them on poshmark or whatever.

i don’t think so! if that’s something someone else wants to set up i’d be thrilled, since i’m all for just about anything that prolongs the life cycle of a garment, i just don’t have the time or resources to set up something like that myself. i know a couple people have found my skirts at thrift stores or on depop/similar apps but that’s about the extent of my knowledge.

#ask #store

[milksockets]

hi, I was looking at your OOTDs and was genuinely shocked at how many cool clothes you have. Like, coolest wardrobe i have ever seen omg

Your outfits are amazing!

thank you!! clothes and printed materials consume most of the $ my nyc rent hasn’t already claimed.

sometimes people ask me like how to find shit and the key is to constantly, obsessively check resale sites/apps (for specific brands usually) because the items be flying. and especially because thrifting, at least where i am, seems beyond dead, i rely heavily on buying online at this point.

#ask #ootd

[raggedyfink]

In love with my new pikes

Got them off depop and they were 100% worth spending the money I got from working to get these. They’re goth pikes (the brand). Just a pro-tip if ur intimidated by ordering from them on Facebook or Instagram due to the problems this brand has with shipping, returns and stuff u can just order them on resale apps like depop, eBay, etc…. And just wait and lurk.

#mine #gothgoth #goth pikes #winklepickers #goth fashion #deathrock #goth shoes #goth boots #trad goth #80s goth #90s goth #2000s goth

[vympr]

the resale clothing apps are overrun rn w bitches selling their tswift eras tour outfits and like why did everyone go out and buy a whole new fit for this concert that they were never gonna wear again like its their wedding day

[hairtusk]

hi chaya! hope you’re well💗 you always post such lovely dresses/clothes on here (whether it’s in a poll or selfie), and i’m fairly sure you use resale apps like vinted, so i was wondering what kind of things you search for on apps like that? any keywords or certain brands? i adore your style!

hello! this was such a lovely ask to receive, thank you so much! <3 honestly, my secret to online shopping (i use vinted most, very occasionally ebay for branded shoes) is to find listings posted by older people. if you search for things that are a modern aesthetic (e.g., 'cottagecore', 'coastal grandpa', 'whimsigoth') you're likely going to get results posted by a younger person who knows the value of certain pieces, and will charge lots for them. if I'm searching for a specific item, i try to imagine what words my mother would use if she was listing the item, and search for that instead. (e.g., instead of something like 'boho dress' I'd search for 'strappy cotton summer dress' or something like that).

i also love specifying 'handmade' when searching to find some really unique pieces! and i exclusively search for clothes made of natural fibres (cotton, linen, wool etc.) because these pieces tend to be higher quality and last longer <3 i hope some of this helps! :)

[brundledfly]

Logging in again to say that I got a notification from an events/tickets app saying that I had been offered one of the dir en grey tickets I got waitlisted for months ago. Meaning that my turn in line came up and I had a chance to buy resale tickets. But the window to claim my spot closed at 8:15 AM and I didn’t see until I woke up around 10 AM. It was for a two-day pass to see them perform Ouroboros and Withering to Death in London and I would’ve gone into credit card debt to fly to fucking England and see this shit without a second thought. I missed my window of opportunity. I’m gonna kms goodbye

#I am not actually going to kill myself im just being dramatic #I wanna see a visual-kei-associated band at least fucking once and I’ll never see buck tick #because mr sakurai fucking DIED!!! #so I was like okay it’s gotta be diru #I waited MONTHS!!!!!!! #I wonder if I remembered to put myself on the Berlin list #fuck was it even Berlin or another part of Germany. idk #or Poland or something idc

[wejustvibing]

I've already seen teamlh on the bird app buy ferrari merch before the prices inevitably go up next year. Ain't nobody buying meredes merch in 2024

In other words @ merc good luck booking that stage u speak of

everybody getting those vintage ferrari jackets! also them LH x ferrari edits on merch askhgjffk

the thing about mercedes merch and memorabilia is it's gonna be a part of lewis' legacy. it will have great resale/collectibles value as the time goes by. we'll see about their prices then

#anonymous