At least two dozen guys whose books I would buy sight unseen.

In contrast, he said, there are plenty of things most people do not want to buy sight unseen, notably produce.

Any of those recordings are worth buying sight unseen.

This was no case of buying sight unseen, or even trusting that genuine goods would be on hand when called for.

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That's what brought him to California, where it took him nearly two years to sell a ship full of corroded welding equipment he'd bought sight unseen.

"Some are avid wood collectors, others were reluctant, especially since they were buying sight unseen," Mr. Philbrick said.

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While institutional investors from Japan have acquired a reputation for exhaustive researching in Manhattan before signing multimillion-dollar deals, condominium buyers appear more willing to buy sight unseen.

The Ross Sea party sailed from Tasmania in December 1914 in the Aurora, a 19th-century Arctic whaler Shackleton had bought sight unseen.

It is a little four-room shack on another 80 or so acres, just down the road from Prince's home, that he bought sight unseen, half fixed up and stocked with his own work.

I also buy sight unseen from digital images sent by galleries, but I usually know the galleries and the work of the artists, so there is an element of trust and confidence built in.

The fourth, the National Park Service, did use its condemnation powers in some cases, almost exclusively to purchase tracts in Florida's Everglades ecosystem, which the owners had bought sight unseen and do not live on.

A yellowed newspaper clipping at the Deltona Arts and Historical Center shows throngs of visitors arriving on charter flights from New York and St. Louis for a glimpse of the land they had bought sight unseen.

Still, a survey released in November 2004 by the National Association of Realtors that studied, in part, homebuyers' Internet use found that the link between the Web and buying sight unseen might not be as strong as people think.

Mr. Nikas, a vintage car enthusiast from Irvine, Calif., thought he could encourage his friend by restoring the derelict 1953 Austin-Healey 100 that Mr. Newsome had bought sight unseen on eBay years earlier and then taking it on the drive.

Leopold writes, "In buying sight unseen, in February, 1812, the worthless Henry letters at the cost of a badly needed frigate in order to expose the supposed intrigues of the New England Federalists, Madison and Secretary of State Monroe looked like fools as well as knaves."

Location is driving the trend, Mr. Botticelli said, noting that in the upscale Nassau village of Old Brookville, where there are former estate properties that have been broken up, "if a property sells for under $1.5 million, you will find people buying sight unseen because they know they will knock the house down and build new."