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Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:53:04 GMT
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Mark Harrison writes:
> Yes James,
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> You are a hypocrit (not a word I normally need to spell). I here nothing
> good about ebay and have never looked at the site and your comment (5)
> doesn't help to get rid of ebay. The best thing we can all do is: when
> people post a message to rtl advertising the fact that they have put an
> item on ebay rather than rtl, we tell them that we are very interested
> in obtaining this item but unfortunately will not have anything to do
> with ebay. Making them a direct offer at the same time usually
> frustrates the hell out of them.
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> Mark H.
I certainly understand your point of view, but to me, the "big evil" of e-bay
is not buying from it, but selling to it. (I go into more detail on other
posts - I'll spare people yet another explanation. For now. :) )
Selling on e-bay sends Lego out of the community, buying from e-bay brings it
in. I just treat e-bay like I would any other "external" source of Lego
(retail, garage sale, etc) - something to shop. I just find that e-bay has a
much higher ratio of 'too much for too little' than other avenues, so very
rarely spend anything there.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
> James Brown wrote:
> > <snipped what isn't relevant to this thread>
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> > My call - boycott e-bay! (unless, of course, you see that really good
> > deal...)(5)
> > 5: sarcasm or hypocrisy - you decide ;)
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| (...) I've bought several Lego items through eBay. Larry says about 20% of his stuff is coming from eBay. I know other people, including other fairly heavy buyers, do the same. Exactly who gets to decide who is and who isn't part of this community (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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| Yes James, You are a hypocrit (not a word I normally need to spell). I here nothing good about ebay and have never looked at the site and your comment (5) doesn't help to get rid of ebay. The best thing we can all do is: when people post a message (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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