And open letter to ebay sellers
Jun. 14th, 2007 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkThree things:
1. For anybody who's selling My Little Ponies. "Minty" is the name of a specific pony. "Minty" is also a flavor. "Minty" is not a condition! Either a pony is mint, or it's not mint, there is no "minty." And using the name of a pony as a condition descriptor is needlessly confusing.
2. To everybody who sells collectibles on ebay: Mint = exactly like it came from the factory. Mint is perfect. Mint is never dirty, mint hasn't got fleabites, mint doesn't have writing on the bottom or ratty hair. Mint hasn't got paint rubs or smudges or fading. Mint is perfect. Say "nearly mint" if you must (and not minty!) but do not call it mint unless it is truly, completely, utterly MINT. (Ideally mint really is only mint in box, but with things that have been display only and never played with, I'll accept mint without the box. This is not generally the condition of so-called "mint" ponies though. Mint appears, to some people, to mean "no huge defects.")
3. For crying out loud people! Do not sell me something that weighs a couple of ounces and which I have seen with shipping from England for $3, and charge $10 shipping from two states over! You make it look like such a deal when you price it at just $1 for $5 worth of pony, but I see what you're doing, and you're making a disgusting profit off of shipping, which is just plain dishonest, in my book. I refuse to buy from you people.
1. For anybody who's selling My Little Ponies. "Minty" is the name of a specific pony. "Minty" is also a flavor. "Minty" is not a condition! Either a pony is mint, or it's not mint, there is no "minty." And using the name of a pony as a condition descriptor is needlessly confusing.
2. To everybody who sells collectibles on ebay: Mint = exactly like it came from the factory. Mint is perfect. Mint is never dirty, mint hasn't got fleabites, mint doesn't have writing on the bottom or ratty hair. Mint hasn't got paint rubs or smudges or fading. Mint is perfect. Say "nearly mint" if you must (and not minty!) but do not call it mint unless it is truly, completely, utterly MINT. (Ideally mint really is only mint in box, but with things that have been display only and never played with, I'll accept mint without the box. This is not generally the condition of so-called "mint" ponies though. Mint appears, to some people, to mean "no huge defects.")
3. For crying out loud people! Do not sell me something that weighs a couple of ounces and which I have seen with shipping from England for $3, and charge $10 shipping from two states over! You make it look like such a deal when you price it at just $1 for $5 worth of pony, but I see what you're doing, and you're making a disgusting profit off of shipping, which is just plain dishonest, in my book. I refuse to buy from you people.