Idiocy on Ebay

Here is the listing

SUPERB COPY OF ANSERMET SXL 2153,FANTASTIC CONDITION,STORED THE PAST 20 YEARS,PLAYED ONCE AND THEN RECORDED ON TO OPEN REEL TAPE,UNPLAYED SINCE,THE CONDITION OF THIS RARE SXL IS AS NEW,VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION.

here is my email request You forgot to put the track listing. My catalogue is not handy. Look at my email name. I am serious

Here is the reply

hello,track listing is side one,scene moderato,tempo di valse,andante non troppo,allegro moderato,moderato assai,coda allegro agitato,valse. side two,allegro giusto,danse espagnole,danse napolitaine,danse hongroise,mazurka,scene allegro agitato,scene finale adante allegro agitato.thank you .

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You have correctly identified him as a clueless idiot. Sit back and relax. He won't sell this item; maybe he'll eventually scratch his head over that and lower the price.

A while back I had a great deal of trouble trying to persuade one chap to indicate the names of the soloists (or of any performers) on a CD of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Piano Concerto #1.

Now that we're all agreed he's a clueless idiot, a simple search on Google for SXL 2153 reveals quickly that this is a disc of excerpts from Swan Lake. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Larry, you are assuming a purposefullness here that probably doesn't exist.

Rule #1 for eBay ought to be: If you want to sell something, you have to let potential buyers know what it is in a useful manner. If it's not in the description, you should be prepared to tell them when they ask.

And my rule #1 for eBay is: Don't let anything that happens there unduly bother you.

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who would benefit from such advice.

This has been pointed out many times over the years. The eBay threads roll on, however. Meanwhile, I'm sure that all these offending eBay sellers are glued to r.m.c.r., awaiting their enlightenment.

You can set kill filters in various ways to avoid the eBay threads. After long thought, and with no small amount of regret, I finally killfiled the threads' author. It's worked out great: I now avoid the incessant troll- (or 'troll'feeding (baiting) as well!

Then this guy hasn't noticed that I stopped posting eBay silliness reports months ago, due to lack of interest, but basically because I was just plain tired of it. So whose loss is that?

The nice thing about blundered eBay listings is that sometimes, if you can decipher them on your own, you might realize that what the seller is offering is a treasure

This is especially true with the seller Hitmenow.com