Ebay has been around since pretty much the beginning of the internet itself, but on TikTok, users are sharing all kinds of hacks and secrets to help you get the most out of your search on the auction site.

One such TikToker is Marcie (@yikesmarcie), who previously went viral on the app with her “eBay life hacks” video, which, at the time of writing, has amassed 1.2 million views.

The content creator and self-appointed eBay expert amassed 21,900 followers with her “hack” videos; but her latest one may well be the best eBay hack of them all.

"I think it's finally time I reveal the eBay life hack I've been gatekeeping for years," she began. "I thought this [hack] was a little too good to give up, but I think you guys deserve it."

The creator pointed out that a commenter on a previous video advised bargain hunters to search for typos on eBay, and while this hack was useful, Marcie said she "had something that goes one step further."

"There is a website that looks like it was built in 2006," she explained. "And what it does is, you type in your desired search term, it thinks of every possible typo there could ever be for said search term. And it looks them up on eBay for you. And it brings you a page of all of the results."

Marcie then went on to add how this "incredible" site, called Fat Fingers, "has pretty much infinite uses."

"It's particularly good for things that have kind of difficult spellings," she added. "It's amazing. I'm sure you can see why I've been gatekeeping it, because the more people who know about it, the less it works for me, but I just felt too bad because it's too good."

While plenty of viewers were grateful for Marcie's tip, the website also seemed to be very well-known among eBay frequenters.

"What a throw back!" one commenter said. "Fat Fingers got me so much cheap American Apparel clothes back in the day."

"I've been finding rare Britney Spears stuff for years because people spell it 'Brittany,'" another added.

But the most impressed commenter was eBay itself, with the official account leaving a comment on her video, saying, "Girl, how are you this is amazing," to which Marcie replied by asking, "And where is my sponsorship babygirl."

Marcie didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via email.

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The rise in "manosphere" creators like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan are normalizing misogyny and other violent attitudes towards women on social media—but TikToker and comedian Matt Rife took it one step too far in his Netflix special.

The 28-year-old, who said that this comedy set for "more for guys" than women, kicked things off by recounting how he was served by a hostess with a "full black eye."

"It wasn't like, 'What happened?' It was pretty obvious what happened," he said. "But we couldn't get over, like, this is the face of the company? This is who you have greeting people? And my boy, who I was with, was like, 'Yeah, I feel bad for her, man, I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face.' And I was like, 'Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn't have that black eye.'"

When audiences reacted with shock towards the comment, Rife said it was a test in order to see whether the audience was "fun" or not. "I figured we start the show with domestic violence, the rest of the show should be pretty smooth sailing," he added. "Of course, I felt bad for her. She should have had her protection crystals, you know what I mean?"

Naturally, this joke caused a lot of backlash on social media, with many users pointing out the irony of Rife making sexist jokes when his fanbase is mostly women.

One critic of Rife was TikToker Buffy Summers (@Buffysummers1997), whose video responding to Rife's tasteless joke is viral on the app.

@buffysummers1997 Also he may be hot in person and on video, but in photos he looks HORRIFYING #mattrife #netflix #fy ♬ original sound - BuffySummers1997

"Matt Rife is not funny, and solely got famous recently because he's good looking," she explained. "And he hates this fact and hates that he has a majority female audience because they only want to look at him. Rightfully so, because he has nothing to say the domestic violence joke at the beginning of his new special was hack and terrible."

She then went on to point out the irony of Rife saying he didn't want to "pander to" women anymore "as if making a domestic violence joke about women isn't directly pandering to men."

"Matt Rife constantly goes on podcasts and on these long rants about how he's not famous because he's good looking because he spent years working in the industry," she added. "Yeah, you spent years working hard and you barely had shit until you got good looking. I encourage him to continue to try to alienate his female audience because he'll really realize how little anybody cares about what he has to say."

She concluded: "Also, directly to Matt, no one believes you don't have a chin implant."

Based on the reaction to Rife's joke on Twitter, its clear Summers is far from the only person who feels like this. One user remarked it was "crazy" how "women catapulted Matt Rife into popularity, and the second he gets a special on Netflix he betrays them with a joke about domestic violence."

"Pretty privelage can't excuse his jokes for much longer," another user added, while a third simply responded to the joke by saying "big yikes."

The Daily Dot's reached out to Summers for comment via TikTok comment and Rife via representative for comment.

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There's nothing more frustrating than a slow Wi-Fi. Sometimes, it feels like the router waits for the most critical moment possible to cause trouble, leaving us desperate to try anything to get the internet back up and running. But this frustration and desperation can sometimes leave us vulnerable to exploitation—something that popular content creator Leo Skepi (@leoskepi) learned the hard way.

"OK, I'm pretty sure I just got fucking scammed," the 25-year-old TikToker, who has over 3.9 million followers, lamented. "I'm trying to do something on my computer, and the Wi-Fi be a real slow, like, it's taking its sweet-a** time. So I went on AT&T, and I checked to see if I have the fastest Wi-Fi available. And I have one for $60 a month right now. And it was like, you can go to double the speed, like two times faster, than what you have for $90."

After some deliberation, Leo said he decided to pay the extra $30. But to his dismay, he said nothing much changed. "It's still slow. What the f*ck? Like, I'm already annoyed with this sh*t. It's literally on turtle time over here. I'm fucking just sitting here like a d*ck, waiting," he said.

In fact, the waiting was so frustrating, Leo started thinking about Wi-Fi as a concept. "What the fuck is Wi-Fi?" he asked. "It's this invisible thing that we can't do anything without, like, if you take away this invisible thing, we can't use any of our phones or like our laptops. ... Now I'm scared. Now I'm very paranoid."

But even worse than Wi-Fi as a concept was for Leon, the fact that the speedier internet he was promised never materialized, he claimed. "How are you gonna tell me this invisible thing is just two times faster because I paid you an extra $30? I think you're lying b*tch because it's so slow. But what is Wi-Fi?" he questioned again.

@leoskepi

♬ original sound - Leo Skepi

If he was hoping for viewers to have the answer, he was mistaken. They were just as unsure as him.

"Has anyone ever experienced amazing WiFi?" one commenter asked. "Genuinely curious."

Another posited that "WiFi owns us," before proceeding to point out that "we can’t even measure the speed ourselves so how do we know?"

"To be fair," a third added, "I'm not entirely convinced WiFi is real either."

Leo and AT&T didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via email.

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Nobody likes damaged makeup. It's tacky, inconvenient, and worst of all, messy. But as much as we hate damaged makeup, products are often so fragile, that we might end up damaging them by accident; or mistakenly picking up a well-used tester item rather than a fresh one.

But TikTok viewers were baffled when makeup artist and Ulta worker Erica Elizabeth (@ericaelizabethmua) exposed the makeup company's bizarre method of disposing of "damaged" makeup products. In the viral video, which has been seen by 442,800 people as of Saturday, Erica shows how she's instructed to dispose of "damaged" beauty products, from cutting the wire on a flat iron to squeezing all the moisturizer out of a bottle.

The only problem is that these items show no sign of visible damage. In fact, the items in the video looked perfectly fine. The video's description also aroused suspicion as to whether the products were truly damaged, as Erica confessed that "this is the part I hate" and that "having to get rid of all these products is hurting my soul."

And it wasn't just Erica's soul that was hurt: viewers in the comments were horrified too.

@ericaelizabethmua This is the part I hate 😭😭 Having to get rid of all these products is hurtiny my soul ❤️‍🩹 #ultaemployeecheck #ulta #ultadamages ♬ original sound - Erica Elizabeth

"Why don't they donate them?" one asked. "What a waste." Others suggested Ulta was better off selling the item despite the damage, with several commenters pointing out that the makeup brand could sell the products for a highly discounted price to reduce waste while still making the most of a product. But a few commenters also wondered why Erica couldn't take things into her own hands: both literally and figuratively.

"Girl, I would've placed it in the bag and got it when I clocked," one confessed.

"Ulta better not hire me," another admitted. "I’d be dumping that out without destroying it hoping someone dives for it so they can slay all day."

In the comments section, Erica added that Ulta employees weren't allowed to take the products—but the reason behind it actually makes a lot of sense. Even if it's not visually obvious a makeup product has been used, there's still the question of hygiene, so we can assume these strict dumping rules are ultimately a health and safety thing.

Erika and Ulta's PR representative didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via email.

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We've all seen "He's Just Not That Into You," but sometimes, especially with "delusionships" being on the rise, a reminder doesn't go amiss. That is what Sarah Lauren, TikToker and dating expert, focusses her attention on. Lauren has amassed a following of 384,100 with her blunt, no-sugarcoating approach to the dating arena. And in her latest TikTok, which has amassed 11.7 million views, she tells us exactly what guys do when they don't like you.

One thing guys do, she said, is use the "code word" that they're busy in order to avoid spending time with you. "If they use this code word, they don't care about you too much," she explained. "If they said that they're busy, they're not trying, they don't even want to try babygirl. They're just not that into you!" The creator then went on to add that "everyone's busy in their life," but "you make time for people that you want to hang out with."

"So, if they're not making time and using 'I'm busy' all the time, they're just using it as basically a thing to say because they don't want to hang out with you," she concluded.

@sarahlauren71 on to the next #fyp ♬ original sound - Sarah Lauren

The second sign, Lauren said, is "not touching" you in terms of hugs, grabbing your leg, or playing with your hair.

"Guys are so touchy; guys love physical attention," she said. "Guys need that in their life. And if he's not getting it from you, they're getting it from somebody else. ... He doesn't want to open up with you."

The fourth, and, in her opinion, the "saddest" sign, is that the guy seems to get frustrated or annoyed by your presence. "Guys get frustrated very easily," Lauren explained "And if you're frustrating him, and that's just your personality, and you're frustrating him, he's just not that into you."

The fifth sign is him not listening to what you have to say, because "if he cares about you, he will listen to what you're saying, even if it's the stupidest story ever."

The final and probably most obvious sign is social media interactions.

"If he's not looking at your stories, if he's not liking your pictures, if he's not commenting, if he's not DMing you or swiping up on your story, he's just not that into you," Lauren concluded. "So I'm sorry, [but] we throw them to the curb. We take the trash out and we don't dig in the trash."

Lauren didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via email.

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One customer has gone viral after her attempt to cook a Trader Joe's croissant went badly wrong.

The customer, who goes by Demi (@demifromqueens) on TikTok, posted a video about her failed attempt that has received 4.6 million views and over 302,000 likes.

"Trader Joe's, you tricked me! Look at this croissant," she said, directing viewers to the chocolate croissant pictured on the Trader Joe's box. "I woke up and thought, 'Oh, I could make one of these for breakfast,' and look at this." She then showed viewers what the croissant actually looked like out of the box, which appeared flat, uncooked, and tinged gray.

The creator then revealed that she didn't realize you were meant to leave the pastry overnight (or for nine hours) to rise properly before cooking. "Guess I can turn my oven off," she sighed.

While Demi's plight entertained viewers, they weren't exactly forgiving of her mistake. "What if we read the directions," one commenter asked. "That would be crazy."

"Respectfully, I knew this for like ten years," another added. "I've been eating those since high school."

"Everyone who shops at Trader Joe's knows the pain of learning about the croissant instructions," a third remarked. "It's a rite of passage."

Still, others were more empathetic of Demi's relatable struggle. "Everyone is being mean, but I didn't know either!" a fourth commenter remarked. "I want my snack IMMEDIATELY. They should put something big on the front of the box."

This isn't the first time Trader Joe's customers were baffled by the store's products. One customer was horrified after the Trader Joe's Shawarma Chicken Thighs she purchased had a butter-like texture, which she compared to "lab meat."

Similarly, another customer went viral after she found live bugs in her Trader Joe's rice. But the most concerning find was by a customer who found shards of glass in her Trader Joe's tuna. So, all things considered, Demi got off pretty lightly with her raw pastry.

Update 9:57am CT, Nov. 16: In an Instagram direct message exchange with the Daily Dot, Demi explained that she only recently began shopping at Trader Joe's and shared further details on her croissant experience.

"The majority of things I buy from them just need to be heated up in an oven or pan," she said. "So I assumed they were already made and they just needed to heat up. But this is why you always read the box and never assume anything. I let it proof and then made them."

After a long wait, Demi found that the croissants weren't all they were cracked up to be.

"I think people overhyped them," she said. "It wasn’t the best chocolate in my opinion, but they were still good. Nice and crispy and flakey. I made all of them at once and froze them to grab and go. I would buy them again, they’re a solid buy, but I don’t think they’re anything so spectacular like people make them out to be."

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A lot has been said about "quiet quitting," the trend of workers gradually disengaging from their job before leaving, but what about "quiet firing"? This occurs when an employer no longer wants the services of a particular employee but doesn't fire them straight away. Instead, they might subtly and slowly push you out the door by having you train your replacement or by making the working conditions so unbearable that you decide to leave by yourself. But are bizarre office placements the future of "quiet firing"?

TikToker Mo (@morganissodumb) was left taken aback by her job in a viral video, wherein she appears to work in a normal office cubicle just for the camera to pan out and reveal that the solitary office booth is located in what looks like an abandoned car park.

"I hope my boss doesn't see this, but am I getting laid off?" she asked in the video description.

According to Mo, her office was "relocated" due to "budget cuts." Still, the randomness of the location caused her to feel uncertain about her future employment, as she asked viewers whether she should start job-hunting.

But if Mo was hoping to get some clarification, she might be looking in the wrong place, as viewers were just as stumped about the reason for the relocation as she was.

Several commenters pointed out that this situation demonstrates the absurdity of banning remote working. "Anything but work from home," one quipped, while another asked, "Why not just go remote at this point?"

"They will do anything but God forbid they work from home," a third commenter added.

But other viewers were less concerned about the work-from-home debate and were just generally concerned.

One of the biggest questions among viewers was what would happen to Mo if it started raining, while another viewer asked, "How did they get rid of the office before getting rid of the workers?"

Meanwhile, some commenters suggested that Mo look at the bright side of things.

"They gave you an office with fresh air, that's called a promotion," one remarked, while another joked that this was called a "hybrid office solution."

Mo has yet to update viewers on whether she got laid off, but at least she has a stapler. The Daily Dot reached out to Mo via TikTok direct message for more information.

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Working in customer service can be frustrating at the best of times. Customers can be rude, demanding, and stubborn, but as Black Friday and the holiday season draw near, retail workers are taking to TikTok to vent about some of the most frustrating customer habits.

Arguably, the worst customers are those who don't respect a worker's boundaries and feel entitled to approach employees even when they're clearly not working—and that's exactly what prompted retail worker Bonnie (@bonniemads1) to call out customers in a new TikTok.

Bonnie often shares snapshots of her day on TikTok, and in a new video, which has amassed 469,000 views as of Sunday, the creator shared one of the most annoying customer habits.

Recreating the scene for a TikTok, Bonnie acted out the moment "when you're walking through a staff-only door and you hear 'excuse me.'"

"F***ing shut up!" she mouthed, lip-syncing to the viral sound. "Thank you."

With customers often being the bane of retail workers' lives, there were plenty of commenters who shared Bonnie's frustration.

"Once on my break, a customer just walked into the breakroom because he had a question," one recalled.

"I used to hear phantom 'excuse mes' when the shop was closed," another admitted. "It’s when you’ve clearly just turned up in your coat with your phone in your hand," a third complained, while a fourth joked "You haven't worked in retail until you've done the sprint to the break room."

This isn't the first time retail workers have taken to TikTok to vent frustrations about customers. One employee was left shocked when a customer asked her if she'd had Ozempic, while another called out customers for paying with screwed-up dollar bills.

In fact, some retail workers are so sick of their jobs that they are turning down promotions or even pursuing a career change. Creator Kristen (@condensedmilk23) went viral for explaining how she turned down a promotion because she "knows [her] worth," while Nicoleta (@bitchkake) divided TikTok viewers after saying she's "chronically chill" after swapping retail for an office job.

The Daily Dot reached out to Bonnie via TikTok direct message.

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Tipping is an essential cornerstone of American culture—so much so that 95% of people say they tip at least sometimes, according to Forbes. But as the gig economy grows, with services like Uber and DoorDash becoming commonplace, the question of tipping or not tipping feels a little more ambiguous.

In fact, one in three people say they feel pressured into tipping, while 18% of them admit that they feel uncomfortable about tipping as a whole. TikToker Dustin Anderson (@therealdustinanderson) would probably count himself as being one of the 18%, as he revealed in a new video that he was "done" with tipping.

"I'm not tipping anymore. I'm out, I'm done," he declared. "It used to be you give a tip if somebody gave exceptional service. When's the last time you've had exceptional service?"

"It's just expected," he added. "They bring you a bill at the end and they're like, 'Here, just fill this out, '20%, 25%' like, no, you did your job! They made food and you carried it to my table. You got me a diet Coke, thank you. That's doing your job. You don't get 25% because you did your job."

He then went on to insist that he's "not the bad guy" as he implored restaurant owners to tell him "what it costs."

"What does it cost for me to get my food and also to keep the waiting staff from having to join a cartel?" he asked. "Like, I want people to be taken care of. Just tell me what it costs."

As the clip went viral on the app, amassing 1.4 million views as of Saturday, viewers couldn't quite make their minds up about tipping etiquette.

While some insisted that tipping is "just what you do" for services, others argued that tipping had become "out of control."

"I don't mind tipping at restaurants but at Subway, the car wash, bars, nail salons... it's everywhere," one complained.

"I'm a nurse and I never get a tip," another lamented. "It's my job and 75 % of the time people are yelling at us."

Yet, other commenters from the service industry emphasized the importance of tipping to their survival. "He’s obviously never been a waiter because tips is how they make their living," a commenter wrote. "They’re paid on that basis."

Another said that if you're not going to tip, "make sure you tell your server before you order so they can focus on their other tables."

"Don't expect a refill, or your ranch or your plate cleared," they added.

Either way, one thing both sides could agree on is that servers are definitely not paid enough.

"Server minimum wage is way less than standard minimum in most states," a second server explained, while a third pointed out that "if you don't tip, the servers owe the company money."

Dustin didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via Instagram direct message.

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From YouTubers' mukbangs to Instagram's "What I eat in a day," and TikTok's "girl dinner"—now more than ever, social media has left us fascinated with each others' eating habits. But is this fascination always healthy, or is there a dark side to "girl dinner"? Could "girl dinner" be a gateway to disordered eating?

This is a question dividing the viewers of Emmy Fry's (@emmyfry8) TikTok, with the creator going viral after showing off her "girl dinner" diet to her 45,500 TikTok followers. "I've literally lost over 25 pounds since August eating cute little Lunchables," she said. "Cute little girl dinners."

Showcasing the meals, which were homemade in a "Lunchable" style with cheese, crackers, and salad compartments, Emmy explained that she eats five to six of these small meals a day.

"You guys can literally put anything in there," she added, detailing a tomato, cheese, and pepperoni pizza-inspired "Lunchable." "This is your sign to make adult Lunchables," she said.

@emmyfry8 Girl dinner all day every day #weightloss #girldinner ♬ original sound - Emmy

While some viewers were enthusiastic about the meals, asking Emmy in the comments to drop more recipes, others were skeptical about the portion sizes. "Do you get full? I'd be starving," one said. "I would've felt so malnourished," another admitted. "Baby, you're just not feeding yourself," a third added.

In response to these concerns, Emmy explained in a comment that she eats the "same amount" as everyone else, but "spread out" so she was eating more frequently.

"Portion control is very different to under eating," a further commenter added.

But this didn't stop commenters from expressing concern over the nutritional value of the "Lunchables."

"I'm sorry but I don't know how nutritiononal that is it," a fourth commenter admitted. "I don't think I could stand [it]."

Still, other TikTok users were less convinced over whether Emmy's "Lunchables" necessarily qualify as a "girl dinner."

"A girl dinner is actually a huge massive filling meal sorry," one viewer argued. "Is it so fun to eat dinner out of cute little girl lunch containers that I won’t even feel hungry?" another asked.

Emmy didn't immediately respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment via email.

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