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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CCA, post: 20625, member: 263&quot;]Hi everyone...sure appreciate the invite I got a while back about this board.&nbsp; For years, I mostly lurked around the old PGP board... tried to help on occassion (on the few things I thought I knew about), but mostly asked for help...and was grateful to all those who so willing shared their knowledge...not just the PGP, but also the jewelry board when I sometimes found myself with a box full of costume jewelry from an auction!&nbsp; So now that they&#039;ve totally messed up the e-fee boards, I am thrilled to join this one! So thanks much to the administrators and members who&#039;ve moved over.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I started my buying/selling pastime after I retired from the US military thinking it would be a fun, small-time, part-time thing to do...can&#039;t play golf all the time!.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had a booth in a B&amp;M &quot;mall&quot; for 8 years, and made most of my profit there by buying crappy small furniture pieces and either refinishing or painting it (which I enjoy!!), plus been a small-time seller on e-fee. (candace9512).&nbsp; </p><p>When I first started, I concentrated on pottery (mostly the old Ohio ones), but have branched off to lots of things as time went on, and as I found good stuff harder &amp; harder to get &amp; make a reasonable profit, and more common pieces not worth much as more &amp; more became available on efee...so it&#039;s been fun branching out &amp; researching other things...like I&#039;ve learned a little about old watches, old pocket knives, costume jewelry, etc...but would occasionally still go to the old boardie experts for help when other research failed...and everyone was pretty helpful when they knew.&nbsp; Now mostly I know enough about NC pottery to make me dangerous...I live near Seagrove, NC, and have my own NC pottery collection started about 8 years ago, and several reference books here &amp; at the library I use.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a side note:&nbsp; I&#039;ve been reading some of the posts on this board, just to get a feel for it &amp; the members/posters, and trying to learn how to navigate around, and sure looks like a well put together site!!&nbsp; with lots of nice folks.&nbsp; I just hope it stays that way...I quit the e-fee boards over a year ago when I posted a question on what key words to use on the technique on a piece of pottery (I knew it was some specific technique, but I just couldn&#039;t remember the word)...and got a reply from one of the experts that I &quot;should go find a dictionary&quot;.&nbsp; I thought that was kind of mean,&nbsp; but then someone else posted a reply with the word I was looking for...but still...totally uncalled for...Plus I would read other posts where folks got really abusive &amp; hateful to other posters, or just posted some carp to be obnoxious.&nbsp; So sure hope this forum can keep all that at bay!!&nbsp; So far I recognize lots of names from the old boards...so glad I&#039;m here &amp; thanks again for doing this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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