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Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...
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olive@ebay.com
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Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...

May 16, 2005 5:48 PM
Have a Question? Check our member FAQ's:

Some thoughts on bindings and the dating of them: Link

Book Terminology and Grading: Link

Valuation of books: Link

Identification of First Editions/Book Club Editions: Link
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Re: Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...

May 16, 2005 6:49 PM
Hello Olive and welcome
I don't recall seeing you here before

Help me out here please, I don't understand why you have posted this thread with links to FAQs? It is my understanding space is limited on the board. Is this thread taking up any of that space or is it exempt?

If it is taking up space, then could you please delete it? Thank you

If you are trying to draw attention to the FAQs, then it makes more sense to enlarge the FAQ leters and position the FAQs under the Welcome sign instead of putting "Finding items on eBay!" first.

Thank you
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May 16, 2005 7:45 PM
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

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May 16, 2005 8:07 PM
Another quality ebay employee doing something to look busy.
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May 16, 2005 9:03 PM
What exactly is this leading too? I hope not another listing massacre.
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May 17, 2005 5:04 AM
MANDATORY Board Reading:
"Inside the Mind of Bill Cobb"
Stroll to Your right.
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Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...

May 17, 2005 6:03 AM
Hi, Olive!

I appreciate your adding an actual book-related posting to the board - and I'm sure it will be helpful to newcomers especially.

Have a good day!
:)

'Que sais-je?' ('What do I know?').
------- Michael Seigneur de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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May 17, 2005 8:49 AM

Worried about taking about space? This from someone who starts threads about the weather. Give me a break.
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May 17, 2005 8:58 AM
Where does it state I'm worried?

This is a stupid thread repeating information already here and that members frequently pass on to newbies as a matter of course to help them out.

If Olive is so concerned about members finding the FAQs why aren't they on top of the side bar in LARGE letters highlighted???
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May 17, 2005 9:02 AM

And threads about the weather aren't stupid?
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May 17, 2005 9:06 AM
OT threads are an important component unlike yourself.
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olive@ebay.com
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Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...

May 17, 2005 12:51 PM
Hello all,

I apologize for consolidating the FAQ threads from the side-bar and not giving you an advance explanation as to why I was doing so.

I am a member the Community Development team and we are updating the area to the right of each board, known as the "side-bar" across all boards to include fewer links while making them more consistent and shorter in length.

While it currently looks as if I am creating redundancy, you will soon see the number of links in the top portion of the side-bar reduced to six.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions, feel free to post them here or email me at olive@ebay.com.

Thanks,
Olive
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May 17, 2005 6:39 PM
None of the links to the right will be deleted? They will simply be relocated, right?
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May 17, 2005 7:35 PM
Will they be relocated to the top of this board?

If so, then they might be overlooked by many.

There are so many of those "tacked to the top" threads, that if someone wants to keep up with the new posts they will scroll down and ignore them just to find out what has been added since their last visit.

So, some of the important threads will go unnoticed just because of the habits of the viewers to want to find new info.

If there are too many threads tacked above Maeve's line, then, I think they will be missed.

Can't we keep all of the important threads in one place so they will not be overlooked.

Perhaps a re-vamping of the right sidebar would be in order.

Change some of the titles of the threads to better interpret what they have to say and add the FAQ indication to the original threads which actually had that indication in their title.

Why is it necessary to limit the sidebar to a certain number of threads and also to add other important threads to the top of the board over Maeve's line indicating old vs. new threads.

This is too confusing.
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olive@ebay.com
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Terminology, Identifying, Dating and Grading Books...

May 18, 2005 10:28 AM
Hello skipper204,

You are correct, none of the links to the right will be deleted, they will indeed simply be relocated.

Hello parcey,

To address some of your concerns:
Will they be relocated to the top of this board?

Yes, while I want to be sensitive to how many threads are tacked to the top of this board, it is often where a member new to the bookseller board will look to find information.


Can't we keep all of the important threads in one place so they will not be overlooked.
This is the rationale behind tacking threads to the top of the board. In addition, there will be up to six threads highlighted in the side-bar that new booksellers visiting the board may find helpful as well.

Change some of the titles of the threads to better interpret what they have to say and add the FAQ indication to the original threads which actually had that indication in their title.
This is a great suggestion, in order to do this, I will need to create a new thread with the same information as we cannot edit a thread once it's been created. In doing so, I will have to un-tack this thread and let it fall to the end of the board, and start a new thread. Once I do, I will also lock the thread, so it will serve as a reference tool only.

Please let me know if there are any other concerns I should address.

Thanks,
Olive
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