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Re: Stupid LEGO E-Bay postings
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lugnet.market.auction
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Thu, 24 May 2001 19:10:26 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Hey all,
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> I was just browsing E-Bay looking for various and sundry LEGO things, and an
> old thought came swimming back up into my addled brain:
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> Do any of you ever contact E-Bay bidders to point out their stupidity in
> posting non-LEGO products under the LEGO name? Boy howdy, did I ever want to
> tonight! In just a few pages I saw at least 10 mislabeled auctions (some
> blatently)! So do you?
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> Matt
On the one hand, I hear you and can sympathize in the same way most shopping
AFOL's probably would. On the other, regardless of what we or TLG wants the
word LEGO to mean, in common usage it is recognized as meaning 'any plastic
interlocking toy brick.' Just as Kleenex is commonly accepted to mean any
given facial tissue, or Band-Aid refers to any household adhesive bandage.
Do you have the same sensitivity to the misapplication of those brand names?
I'm betting not.
The average person (and many people selling LEGO on ebay are exactly that,
average people) probably would not be very sympathetic to your frustration
or to an email pointing out, what from your somewhat unique and definately
not generally accepted point of view, is their stupidity.
Just had to play devil's advocate,
John
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Stupid LEGO E-Bay postings
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| Actually, I have great respect for those, and other, brand names who have had their uniqueness ground up and spit out by the tendency of language to apply brand identity in general terms. You see, I'm in advertising/publishing/design and am quite (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
| | | Re: Stupid LEGO E-Bay postings
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| No, no,no Lego is lego and anyone who professes to be ignorant as to what is and what isn't Lego has been living under a rock (brick?) is a liar. BTW Have LEGO sets ever been advertised anywhere as megablock or what have you? Think on ... RW John (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Stupid LEGO E-Bay postings
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| Hey all, I was just browsing E-Bay looking for various and sundry LEGO things, and an old thought came swimming back up into my addled brain: Do any of you ever contact E-Bay bidders to point out their stupidity in posting non-LEGO products under (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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