Promoted Listings - how are you handling it?

[kirkland]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

I asked google if I should use affect or effect. Was still unclear on it

As I am a lover of vocabulary, I will comment on this

Usually you would use "affect" as it is the more common usage. You "affect" something by exerting some influence over it.

But technically, you could "effect" a policy change. the difference being that when you "effect" the change, you are the single driving force behind it. As opposed to "affecting" some change, where your influence is milder but still measurable

Usually the difference in usage is more obvious, eg affect is the verb, effect is the noun, so this was actually a pretty cool use case

[Nimble]

I'm in debt, made stupid decisions in the past, now working my balls off to catch up.

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by Nimble

I'm in debt, made stupid decisions in the past, now working my balls off to catch up.

Hard to even keep up with inflation when pushing the same numbers as 5 years ago is now worth like 30% less

[agent006140]

Whenever someone sees a price increase,he will scream Price Gourging,inflation,typo ,greed.
But when your employer gives you a raise,do you cry Inflation and decline the raise?
Who do you think is going to pick up 'that inflationary raise you just received'?

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

Hard to even keep up with inflation when pushing the same numbers as 5 years ago is now worth like 30% less

It would get worse when Trump wants more to be made in USA and all these corporations borrowing billions for AI and our deficit will soon go from 45 trillions to 55 trillions.
Where should we hide our savings?gold?silver?cryptos?toilet paper??
In the past,I have taken advantage of sales and coupons to buy household items like toilet paper,paper towels,soap,detergent,hand lotion,I cant believe how these items have gone up in prices lately?

[phaz0rz]

Silver has proven to be a pretty good store of value but lets be realistic.. manufacturing is never coming back to the US. We don't have the slave labor force that other countries have.

[agent006140]

It does not matter ,we will have to make it here and buy it here,cheap imports will not be cheap if there is high tarriff,cant wait to see what happens when Chinese EVs are allowed

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

Silver has proven to be a pretty good store of value but lets be realistic.. manufacturing is never coming back to the US. We don't have the slave labor force that other countries have.

silver is poor man's gold,everytime gold goes up.people will say I bought some silver ,expecting silver to rise along with gold.
It seldom happen until recently when all the talk about silver shortage,industrial and commercial use of silver push silver to $78 .troy ounce,but falls back to what $58 and now it is $64,still pretty good price!
Back in old days,due to lack of modern mining technique,silver is worth more,people will show you a silver coin and said THIS IS SILVER !
Now we just yawn when someone said that.
To make things worse,there are plenty of silver ware ready to be scrapped-silver candles,dishes,plates,jewelry,bars ,coins,and the refiners do not want them .

[agent006140]

Gold is recognised as a store of value in most cultures for thousands of years,in Kuwait they have vending machines selling gold,in HK jewelry store,they display real time value of gold,and the gold statues you bought from them,you can sell them back and they will pay you for whatever it is worth that day.
If you want to sell your gold,do not sell on Ebay,you will only get the scrap value and you will have to pay Ebay FVF,cc fee,shipping and insurance and end up with a INAD DISPUTE !

[phaz0rz]

We're multiple years into this "drastic trade war" and nothing's really changed. There's nothing that can be produced profitably in the Unites States except for military equipment.. and even that's only profitable because it's subsidized by taxpayers and for all the wrong reasons