Q. What's ABStralia mean?
A. It's what you get when you cross Australia
with ABS. What's ABS? It's the plastic that Lego is
made from and is short for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Sorry you
asked now? It's a type of plastic which holds its shape and colour very
well.
Q. Why is bricklink better than eBay for buying and selling Lego?
A. Primarily because bricklink is specialised on Lego. Bricklink has a
built-in catalogue of
all Lego sets, parts, colours etc which makes it easier for both buyers
and sellers to be precise about what is being bought and sold. Also
bricklink buyers and sellers are Lego enthuasiasts, so their used Lego
is of reasonable quality because they take good care of it, whereas you
can get some terribly abused Lego from ebay, especially when kids have
chewed it, used it in the mud, left it in the sun and drawn on it with
permanent markers (yeah, people sell Lego like that on ebay usually
describing it as "good condition"). Also you seem to get more scammers
and shipping gougers on ebay.