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Re: No gimmicks, just a free 40 bucks.
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:30:49 GMT
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Well, that implies that even using the word "auction" (whoops!) or the url
for an auction related site like eBay.com (whoops again!!!) constitutes an
auction (whoops a third time!!!) post, which I think is totally false.
--
Paul Davidson
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:Fq1LJA.MIq@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > This is NOT a hawk of my auction but if you want to click on URLS (I
> > don't have time to type them in) or read more about it go see my current
> > blue hopper on eBay... (I especially don't have time to retype all the
> > explanatory text)
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=256988280
> > [...]
>
> Hmm, I'm not entirely clear on why the above quoted isn't an auction
> announcement.
>
> The larger post -- on a whole -- obviously isn't, but in my mind, it • certainly
> does _contain_ an auction announcement, albeit one with a disclaimer.
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> It's not an announcement of the trumpet/herald type, but it clearly draws
> attention and mindshare to an auction which is currently being run by the
> poster.
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> Not flaming Larry, because I'm sure he considered this very carefully • before
> posting, but this is an intriguing border case which seems uncomfortable.
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> Not sure how an embedded auction reference (let's call it a "reference"
> rather than an "announcement") of this type is different from a sig-based
> reference, but I think this is a case we ought to clarify one way or the
> other.
>
> --Todd
>
> [followups to .market.theory]
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