3 Oct
2005
3 Oct
'05
12:52 p.m.
Gil Carrick wrote:
For whatever it's worth, when citing eBay auctions
all that is necessary is
the item number. In this case, 8701459056. It is very easy to find on any
page and cut-n-paste into an email. A search for that number will find it
quickly. Full URLs always get wrapped in an inconvenient place.
Gil
Yep, useful point (assuming that national EBay numbers track with
ebay.com ones :)
Whilst on the subject of EBay, can I also add that it's handy to have a
short description of what the item is when there's no surrounding
context (not relevant for Dan's post).
All too often I see posts on this list along the lines of "look what I
saw on ebay" and just a link. Not all of us have web browsers that load
in a nanosecond or even read email on the same machine as they browse
the web with, so it's useful to know in advance whether it's worth the
effort to go look at the page :)
(would the wiki be a useful place to record these two points? Or do we
have a FAQ these days?)
cheers
Jules