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Subject: 
Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.market.services
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Mon, 20 May 2002 23:08:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.general, Thomas Garrison writes:
> > On Sun, 19 May 2002, John Henry Kruer wrote:
> > 
> > > I think its just a cheap clone with a box that's a redone lego picture.
> > > The seller guy apparently either dosn't know about the clone property or
> > > trying to fool us.  (Its so annoying when you do a search on Lego something
> > > on ebay and you find LEGO-compatable Mega Block or simply Lego Megablock.
> > > It seems that these people are just ignorent of clone brands)
> > 
> > They are also in blatant violation of Ebay's policies against key word
> > spamming and requiring listing items in the proper category.  Has anyone
> > successfully complained to Ebay about this?  After all, those policies are
> > in their interest, quite aside from the propect of TLC's legal department
> > breathing down their necks. . .
> 
>  But it's not "key word spamming," since the product is, after all,
> "LEGO-compatible," and that's one of its intended selling points.  Why would
> it be any different to describe a LEGO lot as "Red Bricks," since both "red"
> and "brick" could be keywords, in other contexts?
>  I thought keyword spamming was more like:
> 
> PENCILS FOR SALE BRITNEY SPEARS EMINEM SPIDER-MAN TONY HAWK AMIDALA
> 
> in which the actual item has little or nothing to do with the description's
> buzzwords.
> 
> If ebay browsers don't want to bring up MegaBlok products in their LEGO
> searches, let them refine their search parameters more carefully.  I, for
> one, can't stand to have Bionicle belched forth when I do a search for LEGO,
> so I work around it...
> 
>     Dave!

   Darn you, Dave!  I clicked on this message EXPECTING to see something
   about Eminem and Tony Hawk Amidala (whoever that would be) and instead
   found out I was callously and horribly misled.  You terrible rogue!

   (yes, I'm being silly.)

   LFB

   FUT->.o-t.fun



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  Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
 
(...) But it's not "key word spamming," since the product is, after all, "LEGO-compatible," and that's one of its intended selling points. Why would it be any different to describe a LEGO lot as "Red Bricks," since both "red" and "brick" could be (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.services)

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