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Re: a thought about brickbay update postings
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:07:55 GMT
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Amy Hughes wrote:
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> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Chris Barker writes:
> > Many of us who sell on brickbay post in this group when we
> > update our shops.
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> I, someone who buys a *lot* from brickbay, find brickbay and ebay postings here
> mostly unhelpful (I'm being diplomatic). Both of those sites have search
> engines that give me access to a lot more pieces than the individual sale
> postings, and those sale postings make finding articles that are unique to this
> forum more time-consuming. It's a tragedy of the commons type of problem. It's
> not so bad when a few post here, and it's probably beneficial for those who do,
> but what if everyone did it? I already find it more tedious than it's worth to
> read many online forums, including rec.toys.lego, unless I killfile everyone
> who posts ebay sales.
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> Occaisionally someone will post a discount for lugnet readers. Although I've
> never remembered to take advantage of these, I find them more useful than the
> others.
>
> It'd be helpful to me if the buy-sell-trade posts didn't appear in the
> top-level market group.
This is why I've repeatedly advocated for lugnet.market.ebay and
lugnet.market.brickbay. I admit that occiasionally I've gone and checked
out a auction or sale based on an announcement here, but most of the
time I just ignore them. I really wish Netscape Communicator had
"filters" like MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) has, then I could
periodically filter to just display all messages with ebay or brickbay
in the subject and mark them all read.
--
Frank Filz
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