Nomination for most succinct description

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

to sell a baseball card.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1911-T3-Turkey-Red-JOHN-MCGRAW-26-HOF-NY-Giants-Mgr_W0QQitemZ110320176188QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_SM_ Sports_Cards?hash=item110320176188&_trksid=p3286.c 0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A4%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1 318

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Posted By: Donavon Arabie

Wow!!! I hope he makes a decent sell for all the effort.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Maybe he did his master's dissertation on John McGraw.

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Posted By: Marc S.

most of it from Wikipedia...

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Posted By: D. Bergin

LOL!!! That is one Herculean listing effort, even if much of it is copy/pasted. Probably took him all day to put that together.

Too bad it won't make much of a difference then if he had just stated what the card was, player, condition and size.

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Done mostly for keyword stuffing.. the more words (text) you include in the description, the more often your listing will show up in keyword searches. Not sure if it will increase the hammer price but it will get more looks because of the sheer amount of words (text).

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Posted By: tony fryer

I fell asleep reading it and I am now late for work.

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Posted By: Marc S.

do you think a lot of people search within the descriptions? I know it is a choice -- but since it frequently keeps ridiculous listings in, I almost never do it. 95+% of the searches I do on Ebay are in the titles only. Yes -- I know that I may miss some esoteric, mislisted items as a result, but I don't like spending hours sorting through all the garbage...

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I went to the department store, yadda, yadda, yadda, and I got a free facial!

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Marc,

I Always search within the description because I don't want to miss something that may not be titled.. its probably 50/50 for searches.

Even if it is only 50/50 on the searches, he will get more views but not necessarily more bids, which may be what he is after. Some ebay Advertisers/Affiliates will include the MOST VIEWED auctions from certain catagories on their sites which will get his auction more exposure.

If you take a quick look at the description of this card, you notice the SET checklist is inlcuded which will get a lot of searches as will the mention of Jack Johnson (boxer). In reality its keyword spamming and could get the boot if someone reported it to eBay but personally, I'm not that anal. It bugs me but not to the point that I would want the guy to loose his insertion fee (bad choice of words.. how 'bout Listing FEE).

marty

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Posted By: Jason L

Marty, now they charge and "insertion fee" ???
That's a bit much!

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Posted By: S Gross

............. wow, Henry, kinda' surreal moment for me, just then......... I just hopped from ebay to this post, and the last ebay item I checked out was his T9 Driscoll ................ and your winning state lottery number tonight will be: 5 - 4 - 0

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Posted By: Bob Manning

My favorite part:

"T3 Turkey Reds were available only by sending in coupons found in packages of cigarettes. It required ten coupons from Turkey Red Cigarettes, or 25 coupons from Fez or Old Mill Cigarettes. As premiums, the cards were awarded as an incentive for consumers to keep smoking Turkey Red, Fez and Old Mill cigarettes."

NO! Really??!! All along I thought they were incentives for not having sex, or maybe wearing clean underwear.