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Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:21:06 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.market.auction, Frank Filz wrote:

One thing [eBay] could do to make the database and searches more manageable • would
be to actually break the database into smaller databases by category. This
would really encourage people to put their stuff in the right category. It
would also make searches a lot easier to use.

It would also encourage people to deliberately mis-categorize their wares,
if they thought they could reach a larger audience.

Well, their TOS specifically addresses mis-categorization. In fact, I've been
tempted to invoke this, it specifically addresses, and disallows things like
"Mega Bloks set, just like LEGO". By a strict reading of their TOS in fact, the
non-LEGO construction toys do not belong in the LEGO category at all (or TLC
needs to tell eBay that the category can not be named LEGO if it is indeed
supposed to be for all similar construction toys). Of course, TLC should really
be the ones contacting eBay. I think that what is going is activity which if it
isn't addressed by TLC, will weaken TLC's ownership of the LEGO trademark (but
IANAL so who knows).

Frank



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  Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
 
(...) It would also encourage people to deliberately mis-categorize their wares, if they thought they could reach a larger audience. Steve (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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