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Depends much on what you are buying. There are many cases of totally not urgent things that costs 75% less. So waiting makes totally sense.

What you mean it is not fair? Imagine you are huge company that will not fail, you can enter any market, dump the prices, gather market share, make that the main stream of revenue, and suddenly you can click to kill someone whole business. This is a vendor lock-in based on a dumping model.

On the other hand, don't tell that prices are not personalised anywhere. 4 is destroying the economy with gray area tactics Anyone working there should be ashamed of being part of that


They should never even started doing businesses with that labeled figure.

Like ring recently, they just try to see it the thing sticks and that pisses me off. They should have that as a starting point.


I agree that people like him are just waste.

Yes! You are absolutely correct! (Pun intended)

One needs to consider why the usage of automated responses. Is it engagement drive? Is it inflating metrics? Is it manipulation? I do not see a scenario where it is purely done because someone wants to be nice.

My understanding is it's a few things:

1. Get more followers. A lot of people see follower count as a goal that matters to them. Replying to high follower counts may earn you a follow from them or from someone reading their replies who doesn't catch that you are a bot.

2. Establish account credibility. Does Twitter's algorithm rank posts higher from accounts that have a long history of engaging with other accounts? I don't know for sure, neither do they but they may believe it's worth trying anyway.

3. Accounts for sale. There's a market for used Twitter accounts with plenty of realistic looking activity. Maybe these spammers are building inventory.


Makes sense to me. Seems to be using as it was supposed to be.

This is 0.005 of what musk allegedly have ? He might be sad

As a foreigner, I approve the increase of taxes in US.

It would fix most of my country economy that needs to pay food in USD


Just before Christmas? I doubt it

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