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Re: I know its an auction...
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:26:13 GMT
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   I just don't want people snooping around my web site, thats all!   If you
know what I mean.  I want people to see it as intended...(1)
   Really, now,  I tried to make the images as large as possible, while
still loading in a reasonable time for eBay people, because I figured a lot
of people would just like to look at them.  I didn't think to make a
separate place on my site, because frankly, I have been a little busy with
auctions!  And truthfully, I am not trying to solicit bids in this
particular group; eBay gets plenty of bids from itself and posts on other
groups.

1 - inside (Lugnet) joke - the whole "experience" - actually, if you really
detest eBay, can't stand being there for a second, then you can visit
www114.pair.com/ig88/ebay1/ and click on the numbers (4806, 6026, 6032,
6094, 605, 6096, 6098 (which is 6091, too) for the new Castle set pics (just
don't look at anything else - that would be impolite!)
--
   Have fun!
   John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
In lugnet.castle, John DiRienzo writes:
<f-up? to market.auction?>
Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote in message
Yep, they're auctions... nice scans though. But John, why do the
descriptions on these 2000 sets still say:

"With the low starting bid and no reserve you can pick up this
discontinued set cheap!"

Thats pretty bad - big error. I just fixed those without bids, I'llhave
to add something to the others.  Thanks for pointing it out!

And what's the difference between this and the"Scalping of new Star • Wars
sets" there was so much complaining about earlier this year?

Well, hmm.  Starting bid = $1, no reserve.  Not scalping.  If it gets
really out of hand, which I doubt, we'll do the right thing.  If it goes
low, someone will have a very Merry Christmas.  Somebody, somewhere,
probably wants to buy these Castle and Star Wars sets, and doesn't have
access to them.  Some Lego lovers on eBay may not know the existence of
kl.net or lugnet, and may rely on Lego.com (hahaha) to keep up to date!
Anyway, I think if someone is going to be too dumb for their own good,
there are enough good samaritans around here to keep them from harm's • way,
including myself.

Hmm, waitasec...  John...  When you say "we'll," does that mean that the
auction you were pointing to was your own?

If so, the obvious next question is how come you didn't simply not host
copies of the images on your separate non-auction website and point to • those
instead, if all you wanted to do was point people to nice scans of the new
sets?  Is it not unreasonable to wonder whether you were trying to sneak an
auction announcement into a non-auction group?

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: I know its an auction...
 
(...) So you're admitting that it's your auction then? --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: I know its an auction...
 
(...) Hmm, now that you mention it, I clicked around some more, and you actually did host the images on your own site. You could have pointed people to those images instead of announcing your auction in the .castle group and pointing them to a page (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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