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No one ever said life is fair.

The institution is eBay, as Bernard has observed, THE secondary market. When THE secondary market has such practices, the practices are institutionalized: "established in practice or custom."

Thank you for your input.
 
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Thomas Linton said:
No one ever said life is fair.

The institution is eBay, as Bernard has observed, THE secondary market. When THE secondary market has such practices, the practices are institutionalized: "established in practice or custom."

Thank you for your input.
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So Ebay is THE secondary market? Or is it just one of many ways to access the secondary market. If it is THE secondary market then why do soooo many new things get sold there, IE not secondary. It is just a business. It is not an institution. It is not a practice or custom. It is the TOS you agreed to. You can easily avoid ebay and still buy in THE secondary market. Institutionalization in the way you are trying to use the term is stuff you can't avoid. You know, government, education, THE economy, health care, public works. Important things like that. Not some knife hobby business. There are actual problems to attach that term to. Not being able to buy a knife from a business who's terms you have agreed to, over the internet is not one of them. Life is not fair, actual institutionalized problems are far less fair than ebay.
 
We do not agree on the role of eBay in the secondary market for knives..

Yes, it's only about knives, he says to the guy with 10,292 posts on a knife forum. Glad we agree on that.

Thank you again for your input.
 
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