eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[John Foust]

At 11:33 PM 6/21/2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
>I'm sure this has happened to other people here, but it never happened to me
>before, and it ticks me off.  Someone posted an eBay ad for this vintage
>handheld and blatantly copied 680 words of my work into the "more
>information" part of the item's description.  Above that part, they also
>stole extensively (some text and the top photo) from the site
>www.datamath.org, but at least the jerk includes that link... There is no
>credit for my work at all.

When I do it, I just post the link(s).  Let the buyers go
to the source.  It saves them a lot of work.  It saves me
work, too - no bother with cutting and pasting, just a quick
summary and some relevant links for the item for sale.

- John