On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:53:51 GMT, Cathy Krusberg
declared:

palmer.william wrote:

Mr. or Ms. Internet Bookseller, you will either
describe your listings in grammatical English
using the standard terms of the trade or you
will not get my business.

(And as to the book buyers, well, if you are dumb
enough to buy on line from so-called booksellers who
don't know their basic terminology--and exhibit
an atrocious lack of writing skills too--Ebay is not
going to be able to save you from yourself.)

Although I basically agree with this, I'd like to add
one caveat: That the seller can suffer when s/he
uses standard terms correctly and the buyer does not.
I've seen negative feedback resulting from a book's
condition being described as "good" (in the trade standard
sense) but not being up to the buyer's idea of "good" (in
a more colloquial sense). Sometimes you can't win.

a book dealer describing a book as "good" really Really should have
more of a description than that. "good" along with a laundry list of
flaws should make the true condition apparent.



Robert

--

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