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Subject:	Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp
Date:	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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