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Subject: 
Re: Bad News for Brickbay!?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:37:37 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Matthew Gerber writes:
Perhaps for a lax judge, but you have made a couple of false indications in
your example; Brickbay is not an auction site, sellers do not conduct
auctions there...it is a private commerce site for the buying and selling of
parts at a fixed price, as set by the seller...in fact, it is closer in
relation to eBay's Half.com service.

Ah, yes, I forgot that, right.  I think that proves to some degree the
association being made.  I've only browsed Brickbay occassionally and never
bought anything from a vendor on there (I prefer my addictions from local
retail :) yet I made the jump by the name that they auctioned bricks, not
just sold them.

And there are far worse, much more blatent offenders out there. A site that
someone posted here a few months ago comes to mind...they claimed it was
very "eBay-like", but was better because they didn't charge listing
fees...they even suggested that we move all LEGO auctions there...when I
checked it out, it was a direct rip-off of eBay, likely stolen source code
page-for-page...very, very sad.

The fact that there are far worse offenders doesn't mean BrickBay isn't ripe
for being targetted.  "Yes, sir, I may have stolen a car, but there are
criminals who have stolen much more expensive things!"

Alas, it's a shame this has happened, but...

Calum



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(...) Hee-hee...I meant it more like eBay would have other, bigger fish to fry before they really took the time to flex more muscle at Brickbay...others were more blatently harming them, they'll deal with those faster/more actively...gives Dan some (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)

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  Re: Bad News for Brickbay!?
 
(...) Yes, they do...but... (...) Perhaps for a lax judge, but you have made a couple of false indications in your example; Brickbay is not an auction site, sellers do not conduct auctions there...it is a private commerce site for the buying and (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)

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