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Re: lugnet.market.mess
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Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:56:46 GMT
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> This makes sense, not so much because they are "high volume sites" as
> because such sites have excellent search capabilities (and, in the case of
> BrickLink, wanted list notifications) that make ads for Lego available
> through them a waste of time for most people.

This has been said before, BUT experience says that posting a notice on
market.bst of something special in a Bricklink shop, produces sales. So,
people are responding to those notices who would not otherwise have known
the "something special" was available. In some ways both eBay and Bricklink
are *too* big - it makes them hard to just browse, as opposed to searching
for a specific item.

Kevin
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(...) It would be nice to implement this for all groups that do not explicitly opt for ads. . . (...) Huh? Why make .theory a subgroup of .ads? There's no reason for ads to be posted to theory, except for illustrative purposes. Also, I'd imagine (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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