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Re: New group suggestion
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:11:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> > I'd like to suggest a new group:
> > lugnet.shopping.fotw
> > For discussions about unusual finds.
> > (traditionally "find of the week").
> > Unusual == hard to find or deeply discounted
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> Oops, I guess that would be
> lugnet.marketplace.fotw
> or
> lugnet.marketplace.shopping.fotw
Hmm, the rationale being what? (Not disagreeing, just unclear on the
motivation behind it.)
To increase (encourage) more FOTW posts? To make FOTW's easier to find?
To make FOTW's come and find you (by subscribing to the group via e-mail?)
I'm with ya mostly on the making-it-easier-to-find part, but a leary of the
name actually matching that purpose. Most FOTW's I've seen over the past
few years are one-time finds -- at least, that's how the term originated:
someone would find some old Forestmen set sitting on a shelf collecting dust
at an obsucre "ma and pa toystore" and would post in excitement about their
find, but typically no one else would ever be able to repeat that find.
What about (alternatively) something like this?--
lugnet.market.shopping.sales
wherein S@H specials could be crossposted there (or followups set to there)
and all sorts of things such as...
- $30 6748 at TRU
- $2.64 8226 at Target
- various GOOB (going out of business) sales
- various LEGO Outlet lists
- LEGO S@H phone specials
...and more would all fit in. However, a group named .sales would kinda
exclude "hot news" of items which weren't necessarily on sale but were
extremely difficult to find in stores. One example of this type was posted
a year ago under the label of FOTW, but since the store was left with still
quite a bit of product, many people called and ordered items to be shipped,
and IIRC, the store was cleaned out within a matter of hours:
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/us/ma/bos/?n=59
So that worked out great.
Another example I remember was a store in Maryland which had 50%-off 5571's
about a year ago, and the store was quickly cleaned out:
http://www.lugnet.com/market/shopping/?n=106
So that worked out great too.
It'd kinda be a bummer IMHO for those types of posts to be excluded (or at
least not to be clearly welcomed).
If the basic idea is to get info out to people as quickly and as focused as
possible -- so that they can also take advantage of the sale/deal as quickly
as posible -- then I'm all for it if there aren't major objections -- but
let's brainstorm a bunch of possible names...
lugnet.market.shopping.fotw
lugnet.market.shopping.sales
lugnet.market.shopping.notable
lugnet.market.shopping.hot
lugnet.market.shopping.sizzlers
lugnet.market.shopping.get-it-while-you-can ;-)
...other possibilities...?
And some things we'd need to decide are:
- Whether or not it would be appropriate for retailers themselves (for example
DYA) to post notices here. (IMHO, it should be wide-open initially -- only
restricted if it's being abused.)
- Would it be an quick-info-dispersal group (a la .announce) or would it also
be a discussion group? (This is basically just a bit set to 1 or 0 on the
server saying whether or not the 'Followup-To:' field must be set to another
group when posting to it.)
Opinions/concerns/thoughts?
--Todd
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 | | Re: New group suggestion
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| Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) Another example would be my post about the stack of Belville 5870s I found (URL). I put it in market.b-s-t because I was pretty sure that I would be selling them. I believe that this one would meet the 'extremely (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New group suggestion
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| It seems to me that a new group for hot availability items (good price, unusual offering, etc) is not really necessary. It seems to me that that is the purpose of shopping. Of course a cross post to buy-sell-trade that a particular person is willing (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New group suggestion
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| (...) That's a good point. Where I was going with this is that by encouraging people to post when and where they find old sets or significantly discounted sets it would make it easier for others to find the same. However, I think the above example (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New group suggestion
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| (...) I very much like the idea of lugnet.market.shopping.sales - this would be the group to quickly check before going shopping to see if anyone has found a sale going on at the moment. I've wished for this for some time, since currently it takes (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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