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Re: Do people contact the sellers for better descriptions?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Date:
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Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:07:18 GMT
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Scott Smallbeck (scotts@contactics.com) wrote:
: I recently won a very nice lot of LEGO on Ebay for what turned out to be a
: very low bid. The item description was obviously incomplete as it started
: out stating there were 13 sets and then only 6-7 were listed before the
: description was truncated. I contacted the seller and he provided me with a
: list of the sets and it turns out the higher valued sets were what had been
: left off! I placed a fair bid for the lot (about twice the current bid) and
: was suprised to win at my opening bid.
: I was expecting some other competetion at the end but it never came. Do
: most bidder simply take a look at the description and reject it out of hand
: if it is a bad description? I would think that most non-LEGO people would
: have a hard time drafting a quality description that commands the highest
: bids and following up on these lots would be worth the effort.
: Am I in the minority?
I look for under-described lots, and write for descriptions too. I'm
slowly learning to ask the right questions. I passed up a pretty good
lot today that was unbid due to a lack of funds, and an abundance of
bricks to sort in my garage.
-Bill
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