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Bruce,
You're right of course, there is a definite "style" to some descriptions
that one can learn to recognize as a give-away to avoid clicking on them. I
do have to sort-of apologize publicly to Jim Dietz, however. He pointed out to
me privately that all of the listing of his which "triggered" my little rant
were listed only in the appropriate Lobby Card section of eBay. I didn't realize
that since I went to his listing pages directly by clicking on the link he had
provided in his MoPo post. So, actually, he was being pretty straightforward in
his Titles if they were only listed in the Lobby Card category and nowhere
else.
But putting in an identifier is going to become critical for everyone,
isn't it? I mean, what the heck else are people going to do when eBay
eliminates all the of the poster sub-categories and lumps everything into one
gigantic "Movie Poster" category? Are they still planning to do such a terrible
thing -- and if so, when? I think you mentioned a target date a while
back, but I've forgotten what it is.
-- JR
note: replied all
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:09
Subject: [MOPO] Incomplete Listings -- My
Pet Peeve
JR
You just have to learn to read between the
lines! If the listing doesn't
say "one-sheet" then there is no chance
that it is one, for everyone is
proud to have a one-sheet. If it
doesn't say anything about what it is,
then it is almost surely a scene
lobby card, or a herald, or a still. If
it says "rare style" it is
probably an Australian daybill. If it says
"original" without a year
then it is probably an "original" reissue. If it
says "rare" it is
virtually a certainty it ISN"T.
Eventually you get where you can
recognize some dealers just by the way
they list, and you can then just
ignore them without even clicking on a
single
auction!
Bruce
eMoviePoster.com
JR wrote:
Jim,
Hey,
I got a bone to pick with you -- and all the other sellers who neglect
to
put LC on a lobby card listing on eBay or MoPoBid (or to put OS or INS
or
HS for that matter). I'm not just addressing you here -- but I went
to
look at your noir listings and that set me off on this rant -- I'm
talking
to quite a few other sellers as well (you KNOW who you are) and
this is
what I want to say:
Look, we're all busy people, right? You
want us to look at your listing
pages on a regular basis? You want us to
pay attention to the FA posts you
send to MoPo? Then how about helping us
out and IDENTIFYING your stuff
properly in the Title of the listing, huh? I
don't have time to be looking
at something I'm not going to buy, and I
don't think very many other people
do these days -- not with the huge
amount of material to go through every
week. You have to trust your
customers to know if they want an LC an OS a
HS or an INS or whatever.
Don't try to "trick" them into looking at
something by not properly
identifying it. That may work once or twice until
I notice what you're
doing -- but what happens when I run across 4 or 5
pages of listings
and I see that most of them are not correctly identified
as to what type of
poster they are in the title? Aw... you guessed!
--
JR
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