shorterbus opened this issue on Nov 03, 2010 · 16 posts
shorterbus posted Wed, 03 November 2010 at 7:32 AM
I needed a pair of pajamas for V4. I did a MarketPlace Search for "pajamas" and six items turned up - two having nothing to do with pajamas, three were textures for lingerie, one was pajamas for kids (as if!) and one was pajamas for one of those half-human-half-larvae things somebody out there must buy. What? This huge site and no pajamas? I tried again, only this time by accident I left off the "s" on pajamas and TrekkieGirrrls neat pair of pajama (sic) came up and I bought them - plural.
My point being - I cannot count how many times I've had my credit card in my eager little fingers anxious to purchase whatever item my muse set me upon, done a MarketPlace Search for it and found nothing even remotely like I was hoping for. Then, a few days later (long after the desire for that product has slipped away and my credit card has been wasted on groceries), I stumbled upon exactly what would have done the trick. Why? Usually because in his sales pitch the vendor never mentioned what it was he was actually selling. If I'm looking for a set of indecent armor for V4 (and according to the galleries, who isn't?) if you call it "The Misty Veil of Tears of Agorababa" that sounds nice, but unless you admit somewhere that it's a suit of "armor", it will never show in the search engine.
There, that's my rant. Give me a minute and I'll have another.