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Subject: 
Re: Attack of the star wars sales :)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:58:32 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> Oops...sorry about that :)
> 
> Actually, I've used a similar approach to what I've seen done in the past
> for sales at TARGET, KMART, and private sales: from US posters about US only
> sales. [though they don't have the courtesy to also post to .loc.us.].
> 
> I thought I'd do it this way for a couple of reasons...to show those who do
> this how annoying it is when the country isn't mentioned, and also so those
> Ockers who don't look at .loc.au can hear about it.
> 
> If you'd rather have the country mentioned, I suggest getting the
> marketplace rules changed so sale details have to mention the country they
> apply to, or if no country given, they MUST be open internationally.

Yeah that's what I thought too... so much for the online-community thing...
I thought we'd be a world as a whole... not just based in one particular
dominated place, which I know why it is/would be... but still...

It's like saying "this is a blah blah site only (originally even), but hey
you guys can join in too if you want"... and that could be taken a few
different ways... not all too good I suspect.

Mel

> Benjamin Whytcross
> 



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  Re: Attack of the star wars sales :)
 
Oops...sorry about that :) Actually, I've used a similar approach to what I've seen done in the past for sales at TARGET, KMART, and private sales: from US posters about US only sales. [though they don't have the courtesy to also post to .loc.us.]. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)

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