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It's all on eBay (fwd)
- To: debate@fitug.de
- Subject: It's all on eBay (fwd)
- From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:54:04 +0100 (CET)
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- Sender: owner-debate@fitug.de
Vielleicht interessierts hier jemanden, bei uns hat eBay ja noch einen
etwas negativen Beigeschmack, als ob es alles Betrug waer.
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One of the coolest things about eBay is that it is also this gigantic
collaborative encyclopedia of everything. Even if you aren't going to buy
the camera (or whatever) it's almost always worthwhile running stuff down
on eBay and reading the listings & looking at the pictures. You can learn
a lot through the everyday idiosyncratic knowledge of your fellow human
beings. This is one of the reasons why eBay is really such an interesting
phenomenon...it ain't the Beenie babies and the actual objects...it's the
cultural knowledge.