[NTLK] HI there! Searching for a FirstFone

Tim Kaluza timkaluza at me.com
Sat Dec 4 04:43:58 EST 2010


Hi there!

Correct. 
But it also says in the first line something like, nothing found for your search, we seggust "firestone" that the results. 

Has nobody something like that? 
The newt has still more possibilities then the iPad! I
You can use it as a phone!

All the best!
Tim


Am 04.12.2010 um 04:05 schrieb Dennis B. Swaney:

> On 03/12/10 15:06PST, Grant Hutchinson wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Nate wrote:
>> 
>>> I know you may that that the FirstFone is still avilable, but
>>> I modified an eBay URL to search firstfone. see for yourself:
>>> http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=firstfone [1]
>> 
>> Nate, that eBay search seems to default to 'firestone' for me.
>> 
> 
> I believe that eBay thinks that "FirstFone" is a typo for "Firestone" so 
> it automatically changes the the search to the latter. The same thing 
> happens if you manually type in the top level eBay address and then do a 
> search for "FirstFone".
> 
> Pretty arrogant programming on eBay's part since there are tons of 
> uncommon model names for items people want to sell or buy.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
> 
> Newton MP 2100
> iPhone 3GS
> iPad
> 
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