But not any bus is a vanagon, my point. Look at the number of splitties
and loafs with vanagon in the title.

And I never said that the staff would have to be involved in policing
ads. Ebay performs much more sophisticated policing automatically. Try
putting a URL in the body of your description and watch what happens.

Jim

On Dec 1, 2004, at 3:43 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

>> You can see where this stuff comes from, though, if you've ever
>> looked at ebay. Look at how the words "bus" and "vanagon" are
>> ubiquitously used to describe parts for either.
>>
>> For instance "VW volkswagen bus vanagon aircooled diesel hose NEW
>> L@@K vintage RARE." I made that up to illustrate my point, which I
>> believe it does because there are SO MANY similar item descriptions
>> there.
>>
>> Ebay could prevent it but they don't care.
>>
>> Jim
>
> I doubt very much that eBay staff would have the time to police ads.
>
> By the way, ANY VW Transporter (Type 2) is a Bus, including the T3.
> Unfortunately this has become confused in the US... probably VWoA's
> fault.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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>