I'm going over the 2 post limit here but .. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, can we just
chill a wee bit.
It seems to be that anything gets our goat. Could we just take a few deep
breaths and stop acting like ... well, big angry idiots. We're supposed to
be able to take criticism without getting all het up.
None of us is 100% right, but hey, if you are ... please do sign up for the
UN now as they could do with a bit of help about now.
Like so many, many things, this will all be seen as a storm in a teacup a
few weeks down the line.
Shelly
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From: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] SHOW OF FEET -- Life is short...
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:43:34 -0400
Ari,
I agree that "life is short..." too short for me to have my time
unecessarily wasted by being tricked into looking at versions of posters I
am never going to buy. If I were French, I would collect French-langue
posters, but I'm American and so I collect English-language versions. Is
there something wrong with that?
All of you outraged Rick Ryan defenders... allow me to point out that Rick
had this poster listed in the Posters > Originals-US > 1970-79 category
exclusively, so how am I being arrogant and unreasonable in assuming it was
a U.S. version?
I'm actually kind of shocked at you, Ari, for bringing in echoes of
"American Imperialism" into this discussion... that's not what I'm talking
about at all. If I had my way, sellers would ID country of origin in ALL of
their Titles... they would specify US for American, UK for British, FR from
French, SP for Spanish, AU for Australian, GE for German... etc. That used
to be a fairly common convention used in Auction Title headlines on eBay,
but od something which has faded away in recent years into the confusing,
time-wasting chaos we have now. As you say, life is short.
And before someone tells me there isn't enough space in the headline field
for country IDs.... hmmm... two lousy letters? Rick used an exclamation
point and the word LOOK in his Title for this auction... he easily could
have dropped the silly "LOOK!", used SP instead, and still had room for a
couple of exclamation points.
As for assuming "If its not mentioned as US, then it is not US." that's
solves nothing, just reverses the confusion in the other direction, and
would only make some sense IF the poster were NOT listed in this category:
Posters > Originals-US > 1970-79
http://cgi.ebay.com/STAR-WARS-Orig-1977-Style-A-OS-HILDEBRANDT-ART-LOOK_W0QQitemZ180014935583
... but this one WAS listed in US ORIGINALS... exclusively, no
dual-categorizaton, as almost all of Ricks are... so please, people, don't
tell me Rick isn't trying to be deceptive with his listing techniques these
days.
But hey, I see he got 4 bids and $93 bucks for it and that's all that
matters, right?
-- J R
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
Howdy All,
Don't really get why, in a listing title, a seller must state if its not a
(god almighty) American poster.
Most people in the world aren't American.
Most movies in the world aren't American.
And I'd hazard a guess....
Most posters in the world aren't American.
So perhaps we should assume.... If its not mentioned as US, then it is not
US.
All for now,
Ari
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