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Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
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Date: 
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:43:11 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.market.shopping, "Naji Norder" <n.norder@computer.org> writes:
In lugnet.market.shopping, Matthew J. Chiles writes:
**You are on this mailing list because you have expressed interest in
my direct Lego sales at The Vault.  Please let me know if you would
like to be removed from this list to receive notice of new
additions.**

IMO this doesn't belong in lugnet.market.shopping.  Please keep ads
in buy-sell-trade.

Todd: If I am incorrect, please tell me.  If I'm right, please back me up.

I think Matt posted in the right place.  Matt has established his
proprietorship "The Vault" much like an online store (where everything is
first-come-first-serve and fixed-priced) and very little like a typical
person-to-person sale.  As long as he's comfortable posting to .shopping
instead of .buy-sell-trade, it's perfectly OK.

And note that .shopping group (not the .buy-sell-trade group) is, after all,
where real stores (online or otherwise) would post about sales or new items
(possibly also crossposted to a loc group for more focus).

Hmm.  Maybe its just an impression I've formed, but I thought the .shopping
group was more for third-party information - ie: "Etoys has a sale", "TRU is
discounting x", etc.  I didn't think its charter included advertising.  I had
always thought that if (for example) eToys started posting to Lugnet, it would
be in .buy-sell-trade because it crossed the line between a third party
"awareness" post, and a first party advertisement.

To be honest, I'd perfer it that way, where .shopping was free from direct
advertisment.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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