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Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:58:37 GMT
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Hello
I'll second this change idea anytime.
Paul

I agree.  Maybe it's time to kill .buy-sell-trade and .auction and replace
them with:

  .barter
     Exchange of goods for goods -- rather than goods for money.
     (The word "trade" has too many different meanings.)

  .forsale.auction
     Traditional auctions, SBA's, and OBO's.  Anything non-fixed price.
     (".auction" is just a label here; it would be more accurately called
     ".variable" or ".negotiated", but probably more widely understood as
     ".auction")

  .forsale.fixed
     Fixed-price straight sales -- no negotiations.

  .wanted
     Hopeful/wishful want-lists as well as concrete offers to buy.

--Todd



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  Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
 
(...) Eeek! Then they're running an auction! (...) I wouldn't call it an "auction-ish" abuse; isn't it simply a human-nature-ish abuse of human-nature that happens to appear naturally in, among many other places, the dynamics of OBO sales as well as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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