The other day I was looking at silver pennies and silver denarius es on eBay. I had got curious after working on some coin articles. Turns out there are quite a few being offered on eBay of both at any time; usually with two images of the coin. Now, this is not about using the image from eBay on Wikipedia.
What it is about is that in the case of collectibles or other items that an eBay search for will generate a reasonable number of hits that one might include in an article the information that an eBay search for "silver penny" or "silver denarius" will yield a number of illustrated hits.
For example:
Silver pennies are a [[collectible]] and are frequently offered for sale on [[eBay]]. To view silver pennies on eBay enter a search for "silver penny."
A link to an eBay search page is probably not too good as it will contain information about your ebay cookies, unless you know how to remove that info.
Any comments?
Fred Bauder
At 05:06 AM 7/20/02 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
The other day I was looking at silver pennies and silver denarius es on eBay. I had got curious after working on some coin articles. Turns out there are quite a few being offered on eBay of both at any time; usually with two images of the coin. Now, this is not about using the image from eBay on Wikipedia.
What it is about is that in the case of collectibles or other items that an eBay search for will generate a reasonable number of hits that one might include in an article the information that an eBay search for "silver penny" or "silver denarius" will yield a number of illustrated hits.
For example:
Silver pennies are a [[collectible]] and are frequently offered for sale on [[eBay]]. To view silver pennies on eBay enter a search for "silver penny."
A link to an eBay search page is probably not too good as it will contain information about your ebay cookies, unless you know how to remove that info.
I don't like it. I don't like anything that basically comes down to "go offsite and run a search", and I really don't like doing that when what will turn up is variable over short time periods. (A Google image search is at least likely to change more slowly.) I also don't like the implicit endorsement of a specific commercial auction service.
At 08:01 AM 7/20/02 -0400, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote in reference to my earlier posting:
I don't like it. I don't like anything that basically comes down to "go offsite and run a search", and I really don't like doing that when what will turn up is variable over short time periods. (A Google image search is at least likely to change more slowly.) I also don't like the implicit endorsement of a specific commercial auction service.
What turns up is not variable any more than a view of Niagara Falls is. Collectibles is an industry and just like one may expect to view hot dogs at the grocery one may expect silver pennies on eBay. A Google search in this particular case is quite unsatisfactory since the words "silver penny" are attractive as a name for websites, businesses etc. In the first 10 Google hits nothing has to do with coins, although better results would occur if coin was also searched for.
I guess my attitude is explained by my common practice. Part of my knowing how to find things includes searching on eBay.
"Endorsing a specific commercial auction service"
It's a very good question whether eBay will ever have a viable competitor.
BTW might look at the eBay article I just wrote.
Fred Bauder
At 05:06 AM 7/20/02 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
The other day I was looking at silver pennies and silver denarius es on eBay. I had got curious after working on some coin articles. Turns out there are quite a few being offered on eBay of both at any time; usually with two images of the coin. Now, this is not about using the image from eBay on Wikipedia.
What it is about is that in the case of collectibles or other items that an eBay search for will generate a reasonable number of hits that one might include in an article the information that an eBay search for "silver penny" or "silver denarius" will yield a number of illustrated hits.
For example:
Silver pennies are a [[collectible]] and are frequently offered for sale on [[eBay]]. To view silver pennies on eBay enter a search for "silver penny."
A link to an eBay search page is probably not too good as it will contain information about your ebay cookies, unless you know how to remove that
info.
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