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Re: Request for New Selling Group
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:47:36 GMT
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The market sub hierarchy has been a more confusing part of the overall hierarchy
than most sub hierarchies, has been for years....
The following are personal thoughts, just to be clear.
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Clark Stephens wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Daniel Darby wrote:
> > Once upon a time before Bricklink existed the buy/sell group was for listing
> > actual items to buy or sell. Now it seems it is mostly filled with ads for
> > Bricklink shops. Can we get an actual selling group again or a new group for ads
> > of the shops?
> >
> > Thanks,
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> > Dan
>
> I agree. I thought that BST was for direct person-to-person transactions.
> Lugnet
> created a specific group for brickshops to remove the BL ads from the old
> fashioned classified type ads.
I seem to recall that there has always been some confusion about this point, I
seem to recall some discussions asking whether brickshops really is only for
discussing more shop operational things rather than for ads (similar to
.shipping for instance) and that in fact it should NOT have ads but be low
traffic...
I'm not sure the point was ever satisfactorily decided definitively. I agree it
should be, though.
> That kind of division is in effect for eBay
> auctions.
True.
> Looking at the current postings though, the Brickshop division has not
> been as actively enforced.
If in fact it is a division of types of ads, I agree. If it isn't, as I outlined
above, then I'm not sure I do. That may be why there is some confusion and some
lack of clarity on where things belong.
> Confusing things further is that the portal page for BST
> still shows links to Brickshops:
> http://news.lugnet.com/market/buy-sell-trade/
> I think we need to expand the charter for BST to say:
> lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade– Community trading post, items wanted, items for
> straight sale (no auctions or brickshops), experiences, market analysis, etc.
Wouldn't "experiences" in that case, if BST is for person to person selling and
auction is for (commercial only??) auctions, and brickshops is for mall type
selling, then really belong in .theory, or perhaps .shipping??? (and market
analysis in .appraisal???)
> and move the Brickshop links to this portal page:
> http://news.lugnet.com/market/brickshops/
> It would be nice to reclaim a dedicated place to do olde-fashioned trades.
If that's what the community wants and if it makes sense. I have heard another
proposal that would allow auctions BY INDIVIDUALS that are run as email auctions
or "best offer" sales, be allowed in BST, and that .auction be restricted to
commercial site announcements only (eBay, AuctionBrick, Yahoo, whatevever).
To muddy the waters further, though... BOTH eBay and AuctionBrick allow straight
sales... all my MTW stuff is currently on AuctionBrick as straight sales items,
for instance.
That would suggest that announcements of THOSE, in the new regime where BST is
only for person to person, would go in BrickShops. Unless you were also
announcing some items were auctionable too. Bog!
This is why some people just throw up their hands. I sure haven't ever seen a
proposal that was perfect. Good topic though... maybe this time we'll find the
partitioning that everyone likes.
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