[rollei_list] OT: eBay as History
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:02:38 -0400
At 12:06 PM 7/22/2010, Austin Franklin wrote:
>Hi Marc,
>
>> I don't give a flying damn about eBay.
>
>I'm surprised (and I'm not ;-). As someone interested in historical
>information, I would think you would be very interested in what shows up on
>eBay. Many historians in many different fields use it as a very vast
>resource, never before available, to gather new information.
Yes, some people live on eBay and some folks try
to rely on it for historical data. It is VERY
unreliable as an historical source. Most of the
Zeiss researchers have simply quit using it for
that reason save when someone points out a
specific auction. But eBay now permits the
haziest and most imperfect of descriptions, so no history can be based on this.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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