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Want-to-BuyReally, the consequences look simple: If you post a request to buy, you make a contract. You enter a reserve price, and you should buy for this price if you receive an offer meeting your requirements. But this will be your intention.However, requests are usually a little fuzzy, and you shouldn't insist strongly on fulfilling mutual demands. The request brings trading partners together, even if the owner of an item doesn't see a chance to sell it, while the seller urgently requests it. So better take this opportunity instead of making it to hell on earth. Posting an item you want to buy is the most difficult part
on ContentsAdvertise your request shortly but truely. Don't forget to mention the condition of the item you expect for your reserve price. Keep in mind the different available kinds of the item and make some restrictions.For many details the posting form has entry fields - no need
to worry
how to place them in the description. Text DesignYou may use HTML. Fine: everything goes. Not fine: you can design a pretty ugly page, using all fonts and colors available on your computer. Restrict your activity to bold face and new line:With <b> you switch bold characters on with </b>
off. HTML is designed to fill almost any screen. In fact, the
lenght of a
line is determined not before it appears on the screen of the bidder.
So
hitting the return key does nothing. If you want a sentence to begin on
a new line, you must employ <br>. If you type: |
ImagesNot so easy to attach a picture of an item, you still don't have. But try your best - with a picture found anywhere in the Internet or with a self made sketch. Place your picture or up to three of them anywhere in the Internet, and tell the
form where to find them. Almost any provider offers space for an own
homepage
- and of course also for pictures. If he doesn't, don't worry: lots of
providers offer web space free of charge, e.g.: http://www.freenet.de http://www.imageshack.us http://www.nbci.com Producing an imageA digital camera does it best, and the cheapest will meet Internet requirements. A sketch you can put on a scanner or directly draw it on the screen with a grafic programm. However you do the job, the resolution will be too fine for a fast download from the Internet. Every camera or scanner comes with an image processing software. It can correct some flaws and adjust the size.
prefers 240 pixels width. This is almost always detailled enough
and downloads pretty fast. You must not follow this advice,
brings a stamp and a football yard to the right size. But the stamp
will
have poor quality and the yard will last hours to download.
JPG- and GIF format are supported. Don't worry about the meaning, JPG does it best for photos. Previewafter having entered all, and after placing the images in the Internet (best done first) you'll get a preview showing how your work appears in the Web - and indeed, it comes from the Web. The links to the pictures look almost awfully - if you are lucky like this: http://www.my-server/space-for-all/picture.jpg . Unfortunately with just one typing error you can't recover it from the Internet. The preview will show only a tiny broken-immage icon. You can't do nothing but click back to the editor and seach the error. The easiest is it to view the picture in another window of your browser, and copy its address into the enty form.Don't be Afraid!As long as you didn't click to Post Item in the preview, nobody can view your request. But even later there is no need to worry: You can still edit your posting as long as the deal is not finshed. However, any offers are removed then, because you cannot expect anybody to stand to an offer after reasonable changes of your description. |
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Last update: 03-14-09 |