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Subject: 
Re: suspended Bricklink shops
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.brickshops
Date: 
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:05:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

However, if I were a seller and I learned that a famous character were receiving
preferential treatment soley for name recognition, I would certainly close my
shop and go elsewhere; if I were a buyer, I would likewise hesitate before
buying via such a biased service framework.

I have no interest in participating in a system that fosters a cool-seller's
clique.

The issue is *not* that Lar is receiving preferential treatment. The issue as I
see it (based on my observation of historical events on BL and conversations
with many others who observed same events) that Lar is getting exceptional
unfavorable treatment because of personal issues.

So, he's being unfairly discriminated *against.* Doesn't matter if its Lar or
not receiving the mistreatment, its mistreatment. Sure, there's an outcry
because Lar's recognizeable -- regardless of who it is, that doesn't make it
less wrong.

-Tim



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  Re: suspended Bricklink shops
 
(...) If Lar were afforded a second (or third, or whatever) chance to come into compliance and if that chance were not similiarly extended to others who had violated the TOS two (or three, or whatever) times, then Lar would be receiving preferential (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.brickshops)

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  Re: suspended Bricklink shops
 
(...) I'm sorry, but this strikes me as a direct affront to the whole point of an online market facilitator like Bricklink. You seem to be suggesting that anyone with sufficient name-recognition can, with impunity, dictate terms to his service (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.brickshops)

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