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• #11777
I think Ebay has rules re body parts.
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• #11778
How do you even know about that?
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• #11779
How do you even know about that?
Good question.
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• #11780
You’re not wrong: “Human body parts or items containing body parts are not allowed.” Except wigs.
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• #11781
How do you even know about that?
Good question.
Totally has my attention.
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• #11782
Ooo teeth wigs!
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• #11783
Yeah, it's rubbish, I got 2 skulls off ebay but a long time ago.
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• #11784
Just trying to declutter.
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• #11785
No more joyful sparks?
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• #11786
I think what you're doing is the 'best' one can do. Tidal pays the highest royalties out of the streaming services, but it's still very low ($0.01 per stream) so realistically, if you were to switch it would make very little difference to the artists you listen to.
The way I see it is that Spotify has really just replaced music piracy for a vast majority of people. And artists getting some money is better than them getting no money. And hopefully those streams will translate into real fans, who will buy merch, tickets and music on other formats.
Also FWIW, I don't have a problem with Spotify charging for what is essentially a display ad. This has actually been a feature of the service for a long time, but it was only available to Spotify's advertising partners i.e. the major labels. So all they've done is open it up to more people and maybe the financials won't work for most artists/indies, but at least having it available to them is better than it being restricted to the biggest labels and artists.
If/when they start charging artists for inclusion in playlists that would be a problem.
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• #11787
I listened to an interview with an artist (can't remember who) a while ago and they were quite laid back about it. They compared it to a radio play, they said he may get say £1000 for a tune to be played to say 100,000 on the radio and could get a similar amount if the same amount of people streamed it. That is great if you get loads of hits but not so if you are a bit more niche.
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• #11788
One lunchtime, years ago, shortly after eBay had started trading and was still a curiosity me and a couple of office mates scanned the listings for the weirdest thing on sale. Human teeth was way up there and, weirdly, there were loads on sale. We reckoned there was a big market in some third-world country ravaged by western culture-influenced confectionary (no doubt marketed by Nestle).
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• #11789
In Egypt and Morocco I've seen human teeth salesmen in markets so there's definitely people buying them out there.
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• #11790
scanning for weird stuff is how i found the listing - i quite like looking through the 'everything else' category every once in a while...
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• #11791
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284395535045
another superb example...
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• #11792
Fascinating!
There’s loads of farts!
My favourite is fresh Yorkshire air for £35. It has 8 watchers! -
• #11795
Can't wait to see my web ads for the next two months.
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• #11796
Think I’ll skip the similar items for now
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• #11798
This is so good:
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• #11799
£3 each?? Having scruples is tough sometimes.
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• #11800
The clothes, the polite applause for the technical sections - excellent
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/human-teeth-/274881310106