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In lugnet.market.auction, Kevin Loch writes:
> Ah-Ha! I just found it:
>
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-list.html
>
> scroll down to catalogs...
> I guess if the catalog is current, and the bidder can subsequently order
> items from the catalog then it is forbidden. This is to prevent ebay
> fee shortcutting. Of course they are ignoring the intrinsic value
> of the catalog itself.
Man, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
So, technically, I guess this even means that selling a large unopened LEGO
set on eBay is verboten, since large LEGO sets contain catalogs that you can
actually order from (those little fold-out "LEGO Direct" catalogs).
:-p
Thanks for digging this up, Kevin. It's a great example of a rule "gone
horribly wrong" which may have made a bit of sense in spirit (from some
perverse managerial point of view) but which makes absolutely no sense in
practice. From a read of the eBay policies page (URL above), it sounds like
the spirit of what they're trying to prevent is things like collector's
catalogs and catalogs with person-to-person classified ads. More precisely,
it sounds like they wanted to prevent the catalog publishers from selling
their own catalogs on eBay. So, a LEGO fan selling a LEGO catalog on eBay
may violate the "letter of the law" but it certainly doesn't violate the
spirit of it, if that's the right interpretation. Egad, eBay!
--Todd
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