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Re: Do people contact the sellers for better descriptions?
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Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:28:23 GMT
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Scott Smallbeck <scotts@contactics.com> wrote:
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.

If something strikes me as sloppily done or incomplete I ignore it.
My time is worth too much to me to spend it verifying that something
that appears to be junk actually is.

That probably means I miss out on lucky deals like yours, but I don't
mind.

--
The pieces you want and nothing else - easy online bidding!
http://jaba.dtrh.com/ - Just Another Brick Auction
Sure, you could pay someone to run your LEGO auction.
Or, you could run it yourself for free:
http://www.guarded-inn.com/bricks/   (Still in beta)



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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) hand (...) I will put a small amount of effort in if I think there is a chance that the item(s) are of interest, but I have to say that a sloppy dfescription may also be a reflection on the integrity of the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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  Do people contact the sellers for better descriptions?
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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