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Re: "Default" part type.
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Date: 
Sun, 18 Mar 2001 07:31:41 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Dan Jezek writes:

Interestingly
I have yet to receive a complaint that a buyer is unsatisfied with his or
her purchase because the item wasn't as described.

That's because BB has a better class of buyer and a better class of seller
than the mechanisms that come before it, and because most of use realise
that for the most part, we can bug you for new features, but mostly need to
work our differences out amongst ourselves or else we will drive you crazy
and cause this neato experiment to come to an end. (Yes there have been a
few cases where you had to step in and straighten things out, but not as
many as one might expect after 240,000 visits, 1,000,000 elements moved and
what, 90K lots or something? Wow.)

That said, I think N versus not N is pretty clear cut. U1 vs. U2 isn't.

++Lar



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  Re: "Default" part type.
 
(...) One thing which is definitely one of the nagging little things which keep me from selling more stuff is that when I do go to start selling some parts, many will come out of my parts bins. In all probability, they are basically new, but some (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
  Re: "Default" part type.
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) I agree, I'd like to see something like a field which specifies new or not (I'm in the same situation as Larry, buying to put together kits). Having the seller specify it in the splash screen isn't much (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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(...) I don't think any kind of "rating system" is a good idea. There would just be too many problems with that. Some people would be confident that their item is in "N (new)" condition while others would think the same item fits into "U1 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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