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I suppose it's fitting that my first eBay Twinzy Toy success would immediately be followed by another. The second auction wasn't for another toy, but rather for the December 1940 issue of Baby Talk magazine. Twinzy Toys are mentioned in its pages, most likely in the washable toys article shown in the picture. A few of them look right, but I won't know for sure until the actual magazine arrives. I won the auction tonight at the minimum bid and quickly paid the seller. It's coming from Louisville, so I should have it soon.
I've had the Twinzy search set up on eBay ever since I finally registered for an account a year ago. Having the second hit show up just two days after the auction on the first hit ended was amusing. I almost find myself hoping that the seller noticed that somebody out there was interested in Twinzy Toys and added mention of them to her description. That would make sense. Otherwise, it was sheer happenstance, and that's just plain weird.
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There is absolutely no chance that the second seller, when writing the auction description of the magazine, looked on eBay to see if there had been any previous mention of, or interest in, Twinzy Toys. What makes sense is for them to include every possible noun in order to get the most search engine hits.
This is why sellers sometimes copy entire Wikipedia pages in the text of their auctions, hoping to get people's search terms that they don't even know about. I don't know if that practice is unacceptable by eBay standards, but it should be. And using metatags will get your auction pulled.
K.
Edited at 2008-07-07 02:15 pm (UTC)
I'm really surprised you've not been on eBay 'til relatively recently, 'course you may be wise to have waited as it's a dangerous place!
It's very cool when stuff you have set up on search turns up; especially the stuff where a search doesn't find things very often. I have email alerts for some things like that; it's nifty when something shows up (and then dangerous if one is trying to watch spending!).