Re: [OM] on ebay

[Giles]

Perhaps we should modify this consensus.  I think this arose from Paul 
Van Tuyl (sp?) who never contributed anything to the list beyond his 
advertisements.  I for one did not appreciate his pure commercial use of 
the list, even though by all accounts he is a nice person.

You on the other hand do contribute more than pure commercial self 
interest posts and I personally would have no problem with you posting 
about interesting items you might have for sale.

The same went for Gary Schloss.  He contributed to the general 
discussions of the list and occasionally would slip in a shameless 
commercial plug cunningly disguised as an on topic post ;-)

I didn't mind that at all, in fact it was very entertaining to see each 
new ploy he would use to slip one in.  I doubt anyone else minded either.

I still think posts referring to Ebay auctions are a bit annoying but a 
straight for sale notice with a price would be OK for list contributors.

How do others feel?

Giles


Gary Reese wrote:

> It was also a democratic consensus that the List shall remain free of
> postings from full-time dealers. The unfortunate result is that some
> "cream of the crop" equipment doesn't show up here first.
 

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