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Re: Ebay auction Group
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Date: 
Sat, 19 Feb 2000 05:54:12 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 05:32:43 GMT, Kevin Wilson
<70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote:

> A couple of points here:
> 1) announcing my bias just in case anyone doesn't know - I sell a lot of
> parts on eBay.

I've sold a fair amount as of late there.

> 2) People have several times said to me specifically after winning an
> auction - "I saw your post on LUGNET and I would have missed it
> otherwise". The volume of Lego stuff on eBay is so great that it's
> almost impossible not to miss stuff.

Ditto.

> 3) Most eBay sellers put eBay in the title of their posts: your software
> would probably let you filter out nearly all the eBay posts.

True.

> 4) The easiest way to find all the private auctions easily, would be to
> have a private auctions group, not just get rid of all the ebay auction
> posts.

Hrmmmm.... I'm not so sure.

I waiver between despising eBay and refusing to look at it and using
it when I just plain want a) quick and easy and b) the chance to make
the most money from an item.  I still despise the place while I'm
using it, though.  But this isn't a bash eBay thread.

I would _much_ rather see all eBay auctions go into a separate group
and see private auctions of some sort move into their own group,
leaving eBay in the original group.  And not just eBay stuff - I think
third party sites in general would be better suited to another group.

There have been AFOL's doing e-mail based auctions a lot longer than
there have been AFOL's doing eBay auctions.  eBay postings, especially
some of them, sometimes annoy people because they have a great deal of
aversion for the place.  Private auction posts rarely do annoy people,
in my experience.

People who are interested in monitoring a subset of eBay Lego auctions
will find them just as easily in lugnet.market.auction.ebay as in
lugnet.market.auction.  Maybe more easily.

> 5) I would like to see any proposal for splitting the auction group
> posted on market.auction itself to get the opinions of everyone who
> frequents that group. Many (most?) people don't read admin.general.

I'd expect that people who were concerned with the structure of LUGNET
as _would_ read .admin.general, but I don't see anything wrong with
posting mention of this discussion there.


--
The parts you want and nothing else?
http://jaba.dtrh.com/ - Just Another Brick Auction



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(...) A couple of points here: 1) announcing my bias just in case anyone doesn't know - I sell a lot of parts on eBay. 2) People have several times said to me specifically after winning an auction - "I saw your post on LUGNET and I would have missed (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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