Ebay references

[Jules Richardson]

Gil Carrick wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, when citing eBay auctions all that is necessary is
> the item number. In this case, 8701459056. It is very easy to find on any
> page and cut-n-paste into an email. A search for that number will find it
> quickly. Full URLs always get wrapped in an inconvenient place.
> 
> Gil 

Yep, useful point (assuming that national EBay numbers track with 
ebay.com ones :)

Whilst on the subject of EBay, can I also add that it's handy to have a 
short description of what the item is when there's no surrounding 
context (not relevant for Dan's post).

All too often I see posts on this list along the lines of "look what I 
saw on ebay" and just a link. Not all of us have web browsers that load 
in a nanosecond or even read email on the same machine as they browse 
the web with, so it's useful to know in advance whether it's worth the 
effort to go look at the page :)

(would the wiki be a useful place to record these two points? Or do we 
have a FAQ these days?)

cheers

Jules