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Re: Proposed Construction Toy Grading Standards
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lugnet.market.appraisal
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 06:24:22 GMT
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In lugnet.market.appraisal, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.market.appraisal, Chris Maddison writes:
> > I think it'd be cool to get into the habit of using something like this; >maybe a bit looser standards, but pretty close to.
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> Any constructive criticism in developing these grading standards is very
> much appreciated -- so thanks, Chris, for responding at all! The more
> voices I hear the better I can improve the standards and hopefully arrive at
> something that many will wish to use. Utility is the whole point of a
> grading standard. If no one wants to use it I have wasted my time writing it.
<snip>
> Anyway, that's the only reason the standards are written in a hopefully
> exacting manner. There shouldn't be any misunderstandings as to what
> someone is specifying if they stipulate a number from 1-100 to describe the
> condition of a thing.
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> Is that fair?
Yup, 'tis fair. Also seems to be accurate, and sufficient, but I have to
confess that my eyes started to glaze over about halfway down, and I
personally will never use a grading system of that exactitude (either when
selling, or as a strict ruler when buying) This hobby is too casual for me
to meet such an exacting standard. I also feel that a good description is
better than a rating system; to use your example, Kevin Johnston's exacting
description was (to me) infinitely more useful that "Mint (100) only please"
would be - even though they're functionally equivalent descriptors.
For my intentions, "new" and "used" are the only descriptors I pay much
attention to.
$0.02
thanks,
James
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