In the age of Insta + Youtube (marketing) and Venmo/Stripe/Zelle (payment processing), I constantly wonder why people use Amazon to buy goods of questionable quality instead of from "artisans".
I was fed up with the quality of futons on Amazon, so I built my own :)
Yes, right now I'm making furniture and t shirts locally and trying to hawk them old school, but I am debating going online and shipping stuff. Back in the day I used to flip bitcoin using Zelle before it was called Zelle.
I got immensely paranoid about infosec though and got out the game ASAP
Not everyone man. Thats a pessimistic view to have. You can vet a person's stuff if you DM with them and they post in depth reviews of what they have on offer.
There are soooo many custom cars I would buy on social media and quite a few artists i would hire
“The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” Jeff said this spring. “I am going to use my financial lottery winnings from Amazon to fund that.”
I was fed up with the quality of futons on Amazon, so I built my own :)