8mm Forum: How Long of a description does one need?

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Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 25, 2006, 12:29 PM:

check out this sellers description it goes on forever and for 1 400' home movie.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1970-Disneyland-Reno-SF-Old-Faithful-Home-Movies-400f_W0QQitemZ6475785539QQcategoryZ63821QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Posted by Scott G. Bruce (Member # 384) on January 25, 2006, 12:53 PM:

Good Lord! How long must that have taken? Someone has too much time on their hands, to be sure!

SGB

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on January 25, 2006, 03:00 PM:

This seller has been known writting the description in such kind. I have addressed it on Ebay Oddities thread (where actually this post should be...before Kevin gets mad [Smile]

) here.

Check also his feedback (he has good rating though) and click on his completed list, all his 8mm films were described with very long story...but they are sold! (some with godd prices too), despite those were only home movies.

I got a learn from him that a big effort will harvest something!

cheers

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on January 25, 2006, 11:34 PM:

Guys, I copied his description to MS Words and putting on standard report format (i.e Arial, 12 Font and 1.5 space).

Guess what?, There are total 21 pages, 7,565 words, 45,640 characters!!!!

[Roll Eyes]

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on January 26, 2006, 04:07 AM:

The odd thing is that he is'nt even explaining the content of the film, just background wikipedia-style informations about the various topics... (Disneyland, Redwood, Neon signs...)

Posted by Scott G. Bruce (Member # 384) on January 26, 2006, 12:52 PM:

Must be cut and pasted from somewhere, right? Who in their right mind would do that kind of research for an old home movie?

SGB

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on January 28, 2006, 02:31 PM:

Got to be a joke ?? [Confused]

Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 30, 2006, 12:15 PM:

check out the end price maybe it pays to have a lengthy description [Big Grin]

Posted by Scott G. Bruce (Member # 384) on January 30, 2006, 02:15 PM:

Wow! I take back what I said. There is method to his/her madness!

SGB

[ January 30, 2006, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Scott G. Bruce ]

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on February 02, 2006, 11:03 PM:

Most of that text is definitely copied from somewhere, as Scott suspects... the writing style and clean paragraph layout are dead giveaways (IMHO). Still, that seller took a lot of time and care with those gorgeous still images taken from the film. They're almost worthy of a good telecine! [Eek!]

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