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Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
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Date: 
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:39:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
I see the reasoning behind third party announcements in shopping and
advertisements in buy-sell-trade, but I see a better reasoning which
follows the charter. The line of reasoning is the availability of the
deals. The deals advertised (either by the seller, or some one else) in
shopping are available to a large number of people, the sales advertised
in buy-sell-trade are very limited quantity, and those in auction are so
limited that the seller wants to let the market determine the price. By
this reasoning, sealed bid auctions are on the borderline between
buy-sell-trade and auction, and thus it fits that Todd is allowing them
in buy-sell-trade.

Hmm.  Ok, I can see this, excepting that some of the offerings in .shopping
lately have been limited in quantity, and some of the offerings in .buy-sell-
trade are very broad in scope.  Where does the line get drawn?  What about
(for example) DYA?  He's got multiple copies of a single set, but posts to
.buy-sell-trade.  Should he be told that .shopping is a more appropriate venue?
How about BAYLIT?

And what of the (hypothetical) situation where a major retailer sees an
opportunity to catch a specialized group - if eToys or TRU starts posting
messages, where would they go?

It seems cleaner to me if the first party advertising is kept to one place.

One thing I'd like to see handled a bit better is to have more of the
discussion follow up to theory, that way the people really just looking
for a good deal, who don't care about how the market works, can ignore
the discussion (some discussion is appropriate for the advertisement
group because it is clarifying the deal).

Ditto, across the board.  However, that's a community awareness issue.

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



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  Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
 
(...) It seems to me that all of these are probably best off in shopping. Of course if eToys or TRU start posting, I would expect them to keep the posts to a reasonable quantity (1 per week or less, except when announcing specials). The posts in (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
 
(...) Simple: * Competition among buyers where bids/offers are used to solicit progressively higher bids/offers: --> .market.auction * Direct sale or trade of items between individuals, where some negotiation between buyer & seller or subjective (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
 
I see the reasoning behind third party announcements in shopping and advertisements in buy-sell-trade, but I see a better reasoning which follows the charter. The line of reasoning is the availability of the deals. The deals advertised (either by (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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