posted on June 5, 2001 02:48:54 PM
Neat find this morning at local thrift shop.
Bought a 1989 record LP by some weird German punk group called DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN (translates as The Golden Lemons)
The cover (which features these 5 guys dressed up as sado-masochistic record-eating pink flowers -- go figure that!) is titled something I cannot print here, but in big blue letters on the front of the LP, it says:
***K YOU
And so I did a search for that particular 4-letter word on eBay, and there is not one, nada, no auctions past or present with that in either the title or description, not even in variants of it. So I guess the free speech Bill of Rights notwithstanding, it gets either banned or canned on eBay.
So...neat item, how do I sell it without offending people or getting my auction closed down?
I guess I could use BANNED BY EBAY in the title or something (is that pushing it too much?) and at least partially cover up the "F " word, unless someone here on AW has any inspired flashes of marketing brilliance to help out another poor demented seller from Canada!
posted on June 5, 2001 03:07:04 PM
Well, since I automatically skip over any auction with "banned by ebay" in the title...
I'd use stars for F**k and would use graphics editing software to blur out the word on the album cover (and of course explain that the photo has been edited and the real deal is unedited).
posted on June 5, 2001 03:12:08 PM
I would suggest you list this lot on www.ebay.de In my experience buyers in Germany are very happy to pay US$ cash.
Hope that helps and good luck!
[ edited by GreetingsfromUK on Jun 5, 2001 03:39 PM ]
posted on June 5, 2001 03:12:57 PM
I'm wondering if that would actually contravene eBay rules here, too, if you do a search for that word with any stars in the title, nothing comes up at all, so either they all get pulled or aren't allowed, or there just isn't anything like this.
I mean, I even went into the mature items category & did some searches there, and still nothing in any variation.
posted on June 5, 2001 03:38:57 PM
I'd say use more than I category to get more eyeballs (there is a European category in Antiques and Art - does this qualify as art ?
Or use the 'weird stuff' category - that seems to be a good draw too. Good luck, sounds like a fun find! Let us know how you do with it - if it does well I'll look for more when I go home to Holland next Winter...
posted on June 5, 2001 04:49:19 PMupriver, I just checked eBay Germany and there are 7 albums listed under DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN. Five of them have bids! You shold do okay with this!
Yes I noticed that too, the top bid though is equal to $6.60 Canadian. This LP seems earlier than any of those listed there from what I could understand.
Couldn't figure out though if you can search closed auctions on the Germany site.
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