Hey, @glenalbrethsen, buddy! Yeah, I think I mentioned it only briefly quite a while back. I did the ebay stuff for about a year and a half, putting it on pause around February of this year, unfortunately. I am really itching to get going again now that we are settled into the new house, but the thrift stores and garage sales aren't really doing business right now and like I mentioned, I don't feel like putting myself at risk to do it right now.
Well, it's hard to say what was the coolest thing I ever found and sold on ebay, but a few things come to mind. The top one that comes to mind was this small electronic device that I found last year at a thrift store that charges by the pound. This little device had batteries in it and I turned on right there in the store and it seemed to be working fine. I looked it up and the new ones were selling for up to $800. I can't remember the exact brand name of the device now. I could probably dig up the photos, but it was a device used for treating depression. It was an electromagnetic cranial stimulation device. No joke. There are some cords with clamps (which were missing) that clamp to your ears and, if I understood the concept correctly, they send electromagnetic waves through the brain to treat depression. And, the FDA has apparently approved such devices for treatment of mental disorders, such as Anxiety, Depression and insomnia.
Honestly I'm not sure if I should have been selling it on ebay, but I couldn't resist. There were other listings for the exact same device in used condition by regular people like me, so I figured I'd be fine. Since the price at the thrift store was 60 cents per pound for electronics, I got it for like 25 cents or something like that. It sold within about an hour of listing it for $100.
Okay. That's awesome. I'm a huge fan of electromagnetic waves. :) Don't know if I'd want to use them on my own brain, but hey, if it works, it works.
Well, cool.
Who knows when we'll be out of lockdown, though. I keep hearing that our prison buddies, Washington and California, are opening up, but I find that hard to believe, given what's happened to them, compared to us, and even so, with New York thrown into the mix, those two states have made it through relatively unscathed. And I just mean that in the sheer number of deaths, not that they haven't had more than their fair share of tragedy regardless. I'm just saying, it can be worse, and if they're reopening too soon, it will get worse.
If there is such a thing as reopening too soon. In this case, I kind of think it is. If we'd allowed it to go through while putting in practice some protocols to protect our most vulnerable, we might be through it by now. As it stands, who knows where we're at, because apparently you'd need to test everyone to see who has the corona antibodies, and then see how many more people are left without being infected.
At any rate, I'd like to have a little more normal activity, instead of walking around stores with a bunch of people wearing masks. Creeps me out. It's like being in a hospital, only seemingly more dangerous. :/
Yeah, we are so far behind the curve that I think if we open up now we are asking for it. Though I get the need at the same time because it is killing the economy, I think.
Oh, that it's definitely doing. I'm not sure what's happening locally, but there's plenty of trouble nationally.
But if we end up opening, only to close again, that will be a death knell for sure. So, rock, or the hard place, take your pick.
I agree, that would be even worse on many levels and I think its a real possibility.