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Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:05:40 GMT
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As far as what I consider to be the "community" it might help if I refered to
it as "the fans of Lego who are on-line and regularly take part in either RTL
or Lugnet, or both."  but community is a lot easier to say.

Surely you're not trying to imply that people who are fans of Lego
but don't take part in on-line discussion groups are any less deserving
of buying Lego? (I know that's not implied by your definition of
'community', which I think is reasonable. But you do seem to be implying
that selling Lego to anyone outside the 'community' is bad, if I haven't
misunderstood you).

Personally if I ever sell any Lego (which I haven't done yet but I'm sure
I will do soon) I'd like to feel it's going to an adult who'll take care
of it for years, and sell it on if/when s/he's finished with it,
rather than to a kiddie who'll lose half the bits within
a few months (perhaps that's being unfair to some kids - I'm sure they're not
all like that). But beyond that I'm not really going to care who I sell
it to as long as I make as much money as I reasonably can.

Simon
http://www.simonrobinson.com



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  Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
 
(...) No, I wasn't trying to imply that, although I may have inadvertantly (rereading back on the thread). It might be (arguably) less good for the community, but certainly not "bad" - anything that keeps our favorite toy in circulation sounds (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
 
(...) Whoa! Back up a second there! I neither said nor implied any such thing! What I _did_ say was that I treat e-bay like I treat a garage sale. A place to get Lego. What I _did_ say was that selling through e-bay takes Lego out of the community. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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