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The reason why I bring this video up is because it's funny. Why is it funny? Because when the government commit scams and steel money they get away with it SCOTT FREE. What this guy did is PEANUTS in comparison what our government does.
Oh the hypocrisy, eh guys?
How in the nine Corellian hells did he pull off a long term Ebay scam?
Quote from: tnu on July 09, 2013, 03:55:38 AM
How in the nine Corellian hells did he pull off a long term Ebay scam?
He didn't. He didn't even TRY. He pulled a long-term INVESTMENT TRADING scam.
Quote from: evensgrey on July 09, 2013, 08:42:50 AM
He didn't. He didn't even TRY. He pulled a long-term INVESTMENT TRADING scam.
still, he pulled off quite a feat--and they say government can protect us from this kind of scamming...
Sorry, I don't really get why this is a scam. I'd say it's CERTAINLY not as much of a scam as, say, claiming you can predict how well stocks will do using Fibonacci numbers.
Quote from: MrBogosity on July 09, 2013, 03:50:06 PM
Sorry, I don't really get why this is a scam. I'd say it's CERTAINLY not as much of a scam as, say, claiming you can predict how well stocks will do using Fibonacci numbers.
well, you kinda can, if you assume the resulting spiral pattern is the pattern of the economy going down the drain... :P
in all seriousness, there are people who actually buy into this shit? what are they, retarded?
Quote from: Ibrahim90 on July 09, 2013, 04:05:32 PM
in all seriousness, there are people who actually buy into this shit? what are they, retarded?
Yep. There's a lot of woo--especially numerology--in the investment world. I wrote an article on this for the now-defunct Skeptic Wiki, in fact. I miss that place...