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Re: No really - a rational discussion of people selling via eBay?
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Tue, 25 May 1999 16:33:55 GMT
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Janet Zorn <lighthouse@bonzai.net> wrote:
> Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
>
> :>It is a weltanshaung.
> :Mmmmm.... a new word. German?
>
> Mike, your the classicist, right? Maybe I'm spelling it wrong. The
> word
> I want is German for what we usually call "world view" (but to me auf
> Deutch, it is more onomatopoetic).
Yep, I'm a classicist, but I never managed to take German (if I hadn't
switched career paths right before I graduated I would have had to
take it, of course) or any other modern language besides Russian. And
I didn't have much choice about Russian, since that's what the Army
told me to learn.
> See this is where I just have a real problem seeing the difference in
> the
> word scalper. But maybe my inability is just based on symantics. You
> and
> Steve both said that the main criterion was truth in advertising. I
> would call
> the people that make the false "RARE" claims liars not scalpers. To me
> the
> L-word is worse. But since the scalper isn't coercive, if you don't
> castigate
> the buyer how can you castigate the seller. But I will admit this.
> Mine is the
> odd opinion out.
Mmmmm. I see what you're saying. For me, as you've probably guessed,
liar is implied by scalper, at least in most cases.
I'm still not sure how I can castigate the buyer, especially when it
would appear to be obvious that in some, if not most, cases the buyer
is simply suffering from ignorance of a particular item's value. But
I do see what you're saying - nobody is forcing the buyer to buy.
> I'll try to dig it up. Give me a few weeks to find and post citations
> here.
Roger that.
> PS, Yesterday my children out of the blue said they wanted to go to
> Tennessee. They didn't know why. My first though was - the home
> state of the infamous Mike Stanley. How would I explain to my wife
> why I wanted to stop in the middle of vacation to see the Lego
> collection of some guy on the internet? You and my wife are safe,
> we are headed for Toronto this summer, eh.
Whahahahahahaha! I'm afraid it wouldn't be that impressive. My Lego
room has been taken over by a king size bed we had to setup for my
wife's parents for their frequent trips to Knoxville for chemo and
other things. All of the Lego stuff I consider part of *my*
collection is locked away in the closet, albeit a large closet that is
packed top to bottom, while the only things visible in the room itself
are all of the sets I have waiting to be broken up for parts auctions.
Still, considering those sets are packed floor to ceiling on two
walls, they do look sorda cool.
Oh, I lied. I do have part of my collection in the room itself, just
because I've never wanted to take them down. I have my 6071's built
and displayed on top of a bookshelf, but they look kinda lonely now.
--
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