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<blockquote data-quote="bmasters9" data-source="post: 440540" data-attributes="member: 77">Another thing about EBay (and I don&#039;t know if I said this)-- being that I shop for vintage newspapers there often (sometimes even books or DVDs; I&#039;ve bought those there from time to time), I strongly dislike when sellers only take one picture of what they&#039;re purveying, usually just the front page of the paper they&#039;re selling, and worse, when there is no real description, outside of the AI-generated one of that this is a newspaper by this name and of this date (I need to know all the details, like, for instance, with newspapers, what sections are included, outside of the front).The reason that detail is important to me is because a time back, I was burnt bad (in a manner of speaking) by a Rocky Mountain News 1984 Sunday paper that wasn&#039;t. Specifically, the listing showed several parts of it (main part, magazine, special section, etc.), so after several failed attempts to get more info on what was being purveyed (I even tried to have my nephew contact &#039;em and find out more), I bit on it, thinking I would be getting all that. Big mistake on my part, because when my nephew&#039;s purchase of it for me came, it was nowhere near what I expected; all it was was the special section on the history of the Rocky Mountain News to that time (it was at its 125th anniversary, having started in 1859). I was fuming, because they said absolutely nothing about selling only that special section, and not everything pictured (I thought to myself, if they were selling only that special part, they should have said something like, &quot;Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, Apr. 22, 1984-- Special Section Only&quot;, and just put a picture or two of that special section).Fortunately, that has been one of just a handful of misfires, with most coming out as I expected, and some better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bmasters9, post: 440540, member: 77"] Another thing about EBay (and I don't know if I said this)-- being that I shop for vintage newspapers there often (sometimes even books or DVDs; I've bought those there from time to time), I strongly dislike when sellers only take one picture of what they're purveying, usually just the front page of the paper they're selling, and worse, when there is no real description, outside of the AI-generated one of that this is a newspaper by this name and of this date (I need to know all the details, like, for instance, with newspapers, what sections are included, outside of the front). The reason that detail is important to me is because a time back, I was burnt bad (in a manner of speaking) by a Rocky Mountain News 1984 Sunday paper that wasn't. Specifically, the listing showed several parts of it (main part, magazine, special section, etc.), so after several failed attempts to get more info on what was being purveyed (I even tried to have my nephew contact 'em and find out more), I bit on it, thinking I would be getting all that. Big mistake on my part, because when my nephew's purchase of it for me came, it was nowhere near what I expected; all it was was the special section on the history of the Rocky Mountain News to that time (it was at its 125th anniversary, having started in 1859). I was fuming, because they said absolutely nothing about selling only that special section, and not everything pictured (I thought to myself, if they were selling only that special part, they should have said something like, "Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, Apr. 22, 1984-- Special Section Only", and just put a picture or two of that special section). Fortunately, that has been one of just a handful of misfires, with most coming out as I expected, and some better. [/QUOTE]

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