Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/06

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Subject: [Leica] No prices on for sales
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:21:38 -0400

Double posting of sales used to happen on the old LUG all the time and I
found it annoying.
I never knew if Brian somehow cracked down on it or what but I was happy
when it seemed to trickle down to nothing.
It seemed then People could not resist the urge to hit the send button more
than once. But we were dumb them. The internet had just been invented.
I imagine in time they realized what a bad vibe that was/is. That they were
just shooting themselves in the foot. Making themselves look annoying.

By the way all the LUG people are in my Entourage database as lug people.
There are 372 of them. When someone comes on the list not in that database
it does not come up blue like a real LUG person would but brown as in spam
person previously unknown.. Normally I'd click it to enter them in but if
they're just selling something they're not really on the LUG anyway so
sometimes I wont. Unless the name seemed familiar from the old days.

I think the lug is a unique list with most the people using their real names
on it. A family feel to it.

But it does NOT feel like family to me for people to put stuff up for sale
here for a great deal money more than they'd ever sell the stuff for
otherwise.  And I see that happening more. Stupidly high prices. This is not
the rip off list.  What are friends for? To charge double? I think not.


--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:48:13 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] No prices on for sales
> 
> How about multiple postings? FS friday has been going for not yet a day
> and I have seen the same FS ad at least twice. It also happens to not
> have any prices.
> 
> Phil Forrest
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:38:20 -0700
> Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wouldn't trust Mark's memory on who has been here or not. He did
>> the same to me. Of course it may very well be true that he has no
>> record of them being on the LUG, but that doesn't make them have no
>> record of being on the LUG.
>> 
>> As for the actual thread, although I have always posted prices, I'd
>> think some of the non-price posters are just saying they are market
>> prices, rather than a "need to pay bills so they are bargain." I
>> could be wrong of course. Putting things on EBay and then say "look
>> at it!" is a bit more questionable.
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Alfia and Paolo have been here for 5-10 years.  Rennie, well,
>>> (s)he's a ring-in.
>>> 
>>> Brian, is there any ruling from the Bartender about posting fs
>>> messages in terms of including a price?
>>> 
>>> Marty
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> All three of these people came out of nowhere. I have no record
>>>> of them
>>> as
>>>> being on the lug. And all posted within 90 minutes of each other.
>>>> 
>>>> --------------------
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>> Photography
>>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:03:49 -0400
>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] No prices on for sales
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why on earth would it be against the rules? You can't sell
>>>>> anything till
>>> the
>>>>> buyer knows if he can afford t or will pay it. I know I have zero
>>> interest
>>>>> in begging someone for a price; I figure they don't want to sell
>>>>> it if
>>> they
>>>>> don't have a price.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Chris Crawford
>>>>> Fine Art Photography
>>>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>>>>> 260-424-0897
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/5/10 1:57 PM, "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I thought that was breaking the rules?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you have a set price, sell on lug
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you don't, sell on ebay.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ....Vick
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 8/5/2010 1:50 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
>>>>>>> Do we know why so many people have stopped pricing the things
>>>>>>> they
>>> want to
>>>>>>> sell here?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ric
>>>>>>> 
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