Re: [MOPO] Incomplete Listings -- My Pet Peeve

[Craig Goebel]

Since ebay must extract 95%+ of its revenue from (buyers via) sellers, from their auction end amounts, having eliminated categories regularly, why, in its obvious enlightened fiscal self-interest, would it persist in doing so, if it (apparently) reduces revenues? Craig, Vancouver ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Incomplete Listings -- My Pet Peeve All the higher-ups at eBay told me was that the elimination of poster categories was "on the schedule for early 2005".  Those of you who think eBay is a disorganized mess now won't believe the confusion that will set in when this takes place.  If posters are anything like books or records, then most dealers' sales will drop by 90% for a few months.  No fooling. Bruce At 02:40 AM 8/16/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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          Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com    ___________________________________________________________________               How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List        Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]             In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L     The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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