European eBay Auctions (was Re: [CR]OT Masi for sale)

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Columbus:SLX)

Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:40:42 -0700
Subject: European eBay Auctions (was Re: [CR]OT Masi for sale)
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <004e01c2ca16$68690700$6501a8c0@mtlrel01.nj.comcast.net>


on 02/01/2003 10:21 AM, The Maaslands at TheMaaslands@comcast.net wrote:
> There is an Italian ebay Masi up for bids. The description is such that I
> doubt that it would ever come up on anybody's radar screen. If somebody had
> seen it and was planning to bid on it, I'm sorry. The seller has told me that
> he bought the bike used about 2 years ago and that the bike itself is about
> 8-10 years old according to the fellow who sold it to him.
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>

This reminds me ... what is it about European eBay auction listers that they never really list much of a description of the items they're selling.

For example, I just won the following auction:

http://ebay.com/<blah>

The description consists of the word "lot" ... that's it. Many of the other auctions I've been viewing are similar.

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