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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Todd Lehman writes:
> I agree. Maybe it's time to kill .buy-sell-trade and .auction and replace
> them with:
>
> .barter
> Exchange of goods for goods -- rather than goods for money.
> (The word "trade" has too many different meanings.)
Heh. Good luck trying to pin down an english word that means "trading goods
for goods" that can't in some way be construed to invlove money. I can haggle
over a price with you and call it bartering, after all. :D
> .forsale.auction
> Traditional auctions, SBA's, and OBO's. Anything non-fixed price.
> (".auction" is just a label here; it would be more accurately called
> ".variable" or ".negotiated", but probably more widely understood as
> ".auction")
>
> .forsale.fixed
> Fixed-price straight sales -- no negotiations.
>
> .wanted
> Hopeful/wishful want-lists as well as concrete offers to buy.
I think these groups would be better defined than the current system, and
therefore represent a step forward as opposed to a step back, or a change just
for the sake of change (step sideways?).
Which is my way of saying I think it would be a good thing.
eric
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