Posting eBay photos ?

[edwest]

Another objection has been posted, this time on the LEMB, about my posting links for active eBay auctions. I could post after auctions or not at all. Thoughts?


Ed

[Ruy Horta]

Interesting discussion, perhaps even worth to take a poll on?

We've got the tooling to make this a community thing, why not use it?

I know for a fact that many people enjoy your posts, I do not get many remarks to the opposite.



So, to poll or not to poll that is my question.

[John Beaman]

Ed:

Who is objecting and what are they objecting to?

Surely not people saving them since they usually have marks, lettering, etc., that, commercially, a copy is worthless.

What is their problem?

[Peter D Evans]

Hi chaps...

I wasn't aware that there were other objections. Has there been debate on this elsewhere recently? As Ed should know by now, I personally love his posts and it has encouraged me to search too.

However, with regards the LEMB, we've had mention from a picture collector that making images/links available whilst an auction is still live means that the £££ gets inflated. To a degree, I can see his point. I can also see that putting a stop to these posts both here, on the LEMB and elsewhere on the .net, it’s virtually impossible. Like Ruy, I'm considering putting the LEMB policy to a vote although I can see some mileage in ensuring that only finished auction links are posted...

Kind regards

Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Jim P.]

Like John, I would wonder who could object to those listings. They've been great.

Wouldn't think the sellers would mind the greater exposure. Look at how the prices have gone up over the last year or two. I'd guess it would be a no-brainer to say that that exposure has contributed to those higher prices.

[pstrany]

Hi Ed;

I really don't understand the objection. You are not posting state secrets. This is information that is available to all. Does anyone seriously feel that Sudek13 or any of the other #@$@%#s that run the prices through the roof somehow would go home with their tails between their legs if you stopped posting these links?
I mean, no offense Ed, but you do miss a few. And from my experience, whether you or anyone else posts these links or not does not seem to affect prices one iota.
Lets say you stop posting the links. That just means that we are all going to have to duplicate your efforts, and so a lot of time is wasted by people duplicating each others efforts.
By the same rationale, perhaps we should petition Google to stop providing a search engine because people can access information in a single place rather than having to do lengthy searches on their own? Hey, maybe we should petition eBay to stop providing a search facility on their site at well - that also makes it too easy to find those aircraft photo auctions!
This is just plain silly. Ed, I for one thank you for your efforts. By your act of sharing your labors, you have saved me time and energy that I would expend duplicating your efforts. You are not the only reason I see these auctions and get to experience a little of this, you have just made things EASIER for me, and for that I am grateful.
But the bottom line is, you have not showed me anything I would not have otherwise seen, you have just make my life easier. There are a certain percentage of hysterics and idiots in any group, and you have to anticipate that someone will always come up with a complaint, even if they have to make it up as they go along.
Continue your fine efforts. Don't wait until after the auctions end, because more than a few of these people immediately pull the pictures, and there will be nothing left to see. And don't sweat the whiners.......
Paul

[John Beaman]

Ed, this is a bunch of H-S*!#. Someone is just trying, for whatever reason, to intimidate you. Just ignore the jerks and keep on doing your great service!!!

[veltro]

Agree with John. All of this discussion is nonsense,. Ed, your post are precious because they are informations about where to see interesting historical images which, by the way, have been posted publicly.

Please continue your great work for the community and if some jerk has enough money to spend it to win auctions as well as time to complain, well, I'm not moved if he should spend some dollars more...

Thanks for your work... and continue it.

[David Ransome]

Yes Ed,

Keep up the excellent work, I don't think that your posts would have that much effect on prices anyway. I for one can usually extract the info I want from the eBay listing illustrations anyway!

Ruy, I wouldn't bother doing a poll, if people don't agree with the posts they don't have to look and neither Ed nor the board get any financial benefit from them. Maybe we should stop people posting book reviews or lists of books for sale, etc etc!

Kind regards,

David

[cz_raf]

Hi Ed,

I understand that someone can be a little bit angry when he found a photo he wants to bid for and thanks to your link there are more bidding people then can be without your link... It is the black side...

On the other hand it is great service for us who has no time to search the ebay so often. In my case you help me to find some very interesting photos (some of which I was able to get, some of them I was overbidded by our common friend with lucky 13:-)

Also there are so many photos I am not interesting to bid for but it is sometimes useful for me to see them and it also can be useful for any research - just to see the photo or to know that there is any photo like this or of this plane in this area.

It is the white side.

So from my point of view your link are really great thing and help for us and we can be glad to have them on this forum!

I will be glad if you will keep doing.

Pavel