Posted by rasiel on 12/17/88 11:53

Csaba Gabor wrote:
.....
>
> The researcher hasn't indicated whether he is researching for his own
> improved buying/selling experience (which I would argue everyone does
> to a certain extent) and seems to me to be within the bounds of ebay's
> agreement, or whether he is engaged in academic or other research.
>
> Csaba Gabor from Vienna

well these are interesting tangents i hadn't considered. for what it's
worth i will be using the data (collected from the ancient roman coin
section, not shoes heheh) to put together pricing and rarity
information. although the book will be sold for my profit the data
gathered would become public domain and the book itself will guide the
collector towards ebay.

so the answer to your question is that at a theoretical level it's a
symbiotic relationship. at a practical level ebay could likely care
less but may say no just because it's written in one of their
boilerplate eulas somewhere. maybe.

ras
ps. i have gotten two proposals from this thread already. i hope i get
even more :-)

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