P3D Re: Ebay Crazy prices and sell-3d policy

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> Now, regarding sell-3d policy.  A *-3d member wrote to ask us to consider
> sell-3d policy regarding announcements of Ebay auctions.  There are more
> postings of the type "check what I have in Ebay" than actual sales of 
> items.  Is sell-3d becoming a vehicle for promoting Ebay business?
> Shouldn't sell-3d deal with buying and selling through sell-3d?
> These are serious questions and we'll need to face them sooner or later.

This subject came up in another photo-related mailing list recently for
the same reason.  I think the hoopla there (usually much more violent
regarding ebay) ended up with ebay references being allowed among
forsale postings (which are allowed on only two days per month).  
However the word "ebay" should be in the Subject-title so those who don't want
to fuss with it can just hit delete, or use a mail filter to get rid of
them.

This doesn't help very much for a list that is sent in digest form, but
it doesn't seem that a forsale group is too useful in digest-mode anyway
(other than for archival purposes).  So that may not be an serious issue.

Mike K.

> 
> Regards -- George Themelis
> 
> 


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