Hello Hive account@denmarkguy
Thank you so much for the shoutout and the resteem, helped a lot!
Your first sentence is very important. I have the same feeling about cryptocurrencies. Of course they can and should be used as a salary of some sort if you do a lot on this plattform but I have a feeling most other cryptos and coins are gamefied. I mean they seem to only exist because of speculation games. This might be an opportunity to get some quick money but everything you get is a loss of someone else. I think this is important to note.
Cryptos should not be a game. We are building an alternative to fiat currency but as long as there are these huge ups and downs they can't really replace any other currency. We need a stable currency that allows you to calculate in the future.
This Stone has a worth of 8$ or 64$ and this makes it hard to calculate your real gain of this transaction.
It would be even more mad if it fluctuates between 0.01$ and 1000$. A currency that can make these kind of jumps is highly dangerous.

It's sad that you could not sell your first object on Hive account@steembay but as you said it is nobodys fault. It was just not known by enough people to find the right buyer that was willing to pay for that. The price-fluctuation made the situation even worse.
I think the more people know about these kind of projects the more attention you'll get with future auctions. I'm certanly looking forward to engage in more auctions.

Steembay is very well done. I liked it a lot and it was flawless. The bot reacted pretty fast and all the "paperwork" was done in seconds. This project has a big future and I am proud to be a part of it. Thanks again.

Your kind way of upvoting some comments to compensate for the shipping cost was absolutely great. That is the big advantage this plattform has over ebay for example. It did not matter for me, I was willing to pay whatever you needed dor the shipping cost but you Hive account@denmarkguy solved that brilliant. I hope more people adapt this tactic because a lot is only aviable for US-Steemians.
Switzerland was probably one of the worst countries to ship something because we are not even in the EU, haha. Glad you did it regardless!

What I don't want is that Steemit gets reduced to just a selling plattform but this kind of economy should not hurt the plattform in any way.

Thanks again for the well written post and the inclusion of my little curious Marley:)
Cheers mate!