Ken,
As a lister, and an eBay buyer and seller, I am not sure that I like the
list being used to point me towards eBay for something that you haven't
even asked the list if they are interested in buying.
We know that the list has representatives of the big 3 plus a number of
other small parts companies (you often see their commercial taglines in
their replies to questions), but I never see them "selling or promoting"
what they have on offer.
It's not that I mind listers trying to clear out useable items that could
help a fellow enthusiast down the way (and I've picked up items just that
way), and I don't mind folks putting stuff on eBay where the return might
be higher (and if I'm interested, I'll look there for stuff anyway), but I
do resent listers using my bandwidth to advertise unashamedly wares that
they want to sell in a different forum.
Incidentally Mark B. does run a list just for folks to sell items -
autojumble - and he encourages folks to advertise anything they want to
sell as blatently as they like on that list (for obvious reasons).
How about offering items for sale to the list in the future, and then put
the stuff on eBay or Autojumble if nothing happens? That way, we get the
chance of acquiring your treasures, and making them ours, and you can feel
like you're helping fellow listers.
I apologise for seemingly taking you, personally, to task on this matter -
you are not the first by any means, nor will you be the last, to post eBay
ads to the list, but the message earlier in the Digest where a lister had
made a point of first using the list to sell items really struck home, and
then, blow me down, your message was in the same digest!
A corollary thought, if there is one, is directed to the list in general,
and seeks thoughts on what forms of sales pitch are acceptable on the list
to users. Any thoughts from the great and and good? Am I just be too picky
once more? Is the answer really 42?
(Dave M. - is this 1, 2 or 3 layer NmX one?)
Tony Gordon
72 TR6
80 Spit
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