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Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 02:29:42 GMT
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"Tom McDonald" <radiotitan@yaspamhoo.com> writes:
> IMO, the word "market" says that it's stuff we're selling online, not official
> retailers, which I'm assuming don't sell here.
Yup -- great! -- that's exactly what it was intended as.
> Even if they did, they could still use market.buy-sell-trade.
Yup -- I agree, that would make a lot of sense (assuming it was done in a
friendly and non-spamful way :).
> I guess we're concerned about passing info
> about retailers, their sales, their available sets, their service, etc. around
> to everybody.
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> How about a lugnet.retailers group? If you wanted to get specific, you could
> change it into a hierarchy and add .lsahs, .coupons, .discounts or whatever.
> To me, the word "retailers" denotes the difference in vendors, to include s&h
> itself, and is more clear to me than "shop" or "shopping".
Wow, I just looked up "retail" in online Webster's -- it says that retail
means (among other things) to sell directly to the consumer (i.e., as
opposed to wholesale). I guess I never really understood what it meant; I
always thought of TRU, Target, etc. as retail, but S@H and eToys as
non-retail. Then again, Sam's and CostCo sell directly to the consumer and
they position themselves as wholesale clubs rather than retail outlets. Is
mail-order (eToys, etc.) retail because the consumer buys it directly? Or
is it non-retail because the consumer isn't there to buy it directly in
person?
Alternatively, doesn't the word "shopping" have quite a diverse set of
spin-off/derivative buzzwords these days? -- "online shopping", "cable
shopping", "home shopping", "phone shopping," "catalog shopping," etc.
In other words, doesn't "shopping" have a very wide range of
interpretations? I think we want a word that does have a very wide range --
one which leaves ample room for later expansion into subgroups under the
general premise of "buying and shopping for primarily-brand-new LEGO sets"
(garage sales and second-hand shops being the exceptions). I just worry
that the words "retail" or "retailer" or "retailers" don't have any
clear-cut boundaries, whereas "shopping" is so wide that it doesn't need a
boundary.
> An FOTW/FOTY purchased from a retailer could still be posted to .retailers
> (possibly in group lugnet.retailers.finds) so someone could take possible
> advantage of purchasing a set at KMart, whereas an FOTY at a garage sale is
> not information anyone can really use so it goes to lugnet.general.
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> The lugnet.retailers group / hierarchy probably should be an announce-only
> forum type.
Do the advantages of an announce-only focus outweigh the advantages of an
announce+discussion focus? (Playing devil's advocate.)
--Todd
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| (...) I've always thought that a retailer sells directly to Joe Gritz even if they slap on the word "wholesale", the meaning of which has been slightly widened these days. I do not consider CostCo to be strictly a wholesaler. In cases like that, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Todd, an idea... IMO, the word "market" says that it's stuff we're selling online, not official retailers, which I'm assuming don't sell here. Even if they did, they could still use market.buy-sell-trade. I guess we're concerned about passing (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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