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Re: Its starting to happen...
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:26:45 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.color, Abner Finley wrote:
> > The problem will get worst on BrickLink. As people or even new sellers find
> > BrickLink and have 'no clue' about the color change. It make me wonder if
> > BrickLink should add a 'warning' or 'disclaimer' about the color change for
> > newbies.
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> Personally, I think BrickLink needs to change their color names. Peeron
> approached this problem by VERY EXPLICITLY renaming "Gray" to "OldGray",
> "DkGray" to "OldDkGray" and "Brown" to "OldBrown".
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> The problem is of course as you point out, that people who are new to the hobby
> won't know jack squat about the color change. They'll crack open a new set and
> see pieces that look "Light Gray" and list them as such. What's worse, is that
> BrickLink's solution of calling the new gray "Light Bluish Gray" gives
> PHENOMENAL confusion, because (1) the new light gray looks in *no* way "bluish",
> except when you compare it to *old* light gray, and (2) sand blue really DOES
> look like it might be described as "Light Bluish Gray".
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> By calling the colors "New Gray" or "Old Gray" (or whatever), you've made it
> clear that there IS a distinction that people should be aware of. You're forcing
> the issue on them. As it is, BrickLink is just setting itself up to look
> disreputable, because newer sellers will be forced into learning the hard way,
> and getting negative feedback.
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> DaveE
The trouble with this idea is that 'old' and 'new' grey only have meaning to
those of us who have been around long enough to know the old from the new.
Somebody coming into the hobby post-bley won't have any idea what distinguishes
the two.
I agree that Sand Blue could potentially be confused with Light Bley, but it's a
pretty rare color so far. Hopefully somebody listing Light Bley would consider
it a greyish rather than a bluish color. Only thing that really would make sense
of the mess would be to call the old color 'Yellowed Grey', and that doesn't
seem like it would be popular.
Tim (Smith)
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| (...) I agree that people won't know what "old" versus "new" means, but that's precisely the point I'm driving at. You *need* to know if you're a seller. So you have to go find out. If you call them "New Gray" and "Old Gray", you've successfully (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) Personally, I think BrickLink needs to change their color names. Peeron approached this problem by VERY EXPLICITLY renaming "Gray" to "OldGray", "DkGray" to "OldDkGray" and "Brown" to "OldBrown". The problem is of course as you point out, that (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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