RE: [Leica] Re: efficient For Sale Postings

[Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>]

If I was a buyer today, I'd be grateful to have a 'for sale' day, so that I 
could, for example, subscribe for that day only, avoid keeping an eye on 
the LUG the rest of the week, if I do not have the time for it, and know I 
have a very good chance to hear from the equipment I'm looking for. 
Inversely, as a seller, I would be happy to know that there is 1 day in the 
week where I would have the greatest potential readership of potential 
buyers.

A self-imposed (by the traders) Friday 'for sale' policy seems like a good 
choice for efficient trading. If sellers want to dilute themselves in the 
stream of BMW v. HD posts during the rest of the week, it is their problem 
only.

Having mentionned that, I do not really care what buyers and sellers do and 
when they post, as long as the quantities of these posts remain more or 
less at the current very reasonable level. There is no reason to believe 
that they would increase anyway...

Alan

On mercredi 31 mars 1999 22:41, Bryan Caldwell [SMTP:bcaldwell@softcom.net] 
wrote:
> The only thing to clearly emerge from the recent discussion regarding 
Friday
> "for sale" postings is that there is no consensus. There is, however, a
> policy imposed by the operator of the list - sent, I presume, to everyone
> when they join. It reads:
>
> "It is acceptable for individuals occasionally to post advertisements to
> sell
> cameras, and very much acceptable for individuals to post requests to buy
> cameras. Any user who is obviously conducting a business in the sale of
> cameras will be removed from the list."
>
> (Note that the latter part is largely ignored)
>
> Anything else is simply an attempt to restrict the content of the list.