[Milsurplus] Speaking of strange eBay practices...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

This has to do with milsurplus radios because I'm currently bidding on one 
and am once again puzzled by part of the ad title (but won't say what as one of 
you would probably try to grab it).  I'm no stranger to eBay having sold 
11,000+ items there but I have never figured out why someone would put the word 
"Look" as a command in their ad title, sometimes multiple times.  I just did a 
search on "look" and it turned up 50,889 items (which was a sobering result in 
its own right).  About half are of the type "vintage-look", "antique-look"  or 
"milsurplus-look" (sorry, couldn't resist) but the other half use it in the 
command sense, as, "Look!!".  I can understand its use as an adjective but not 
as a verb.  Why would anyone in their right mind waste space like that?  No one 
is ever going to include the word in their search string.

Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)
   
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