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Re: I know its an auction...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:42:47 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.admin.general, John DiRienzo writes:
> > [...]
> > 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!
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> 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 which solicits bids.
Actually, I admit it (again - you must have missed one of my posts). I
made another directory with more and better 2000 Castle pictures, but its
not quite ready for mass consumption yet (so don't snoop anymore!) Still, I
thought it would be exciting for other fans to see the scans. My thinking
was, "if I wanted to see scans of the new Castle sets that I have not yet
seen, I wouldn't mind looking at an eBay auction for that purpose."
I could have just given URLs to the individual pics, but as I've said
before so roundaboutly, that idea had not come to me at the time. Hind
sight is 20/20. I was afraid one or two may flame me (so I used an
appropriate, warning type, subject), but I did not expect a battle over
semantics, as I thought my intentions were pure. I guess you don't think
thats the case, and that I can understand. I will try to think before I
act, in the future.
> > 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.
> > [...]
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> Whether or not you're "trying to" solicit bids, you *are* soliciting bids,
> especially when 75% of the body of your message was pure URL as opposed to
> anything substative (like what Larry did last week).
What did Larry do last week? Which group? I am still not caught up with
~every~ group!
The exact URLs were for the benefit of those might not want to comb
through my (tempting) seller's list, which is usually the only URL I include
in auction announcement type posts (and was not includedin this post).
> If I put my old 493 Space Command Center set with gray sloped bricks for
> craters up for auction on eBay and included a really nice scan of it, and
> then announced the URL of that auction in the .space newsgroup, claiming
> that the URL was the so that people could go look at the pretty picture,
> what do you think people would say?
What they usually ask me, of course, "Where do you find all these?!"
> --Todd
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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/
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