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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1813556, member: 6444&quot;]The antique mall I sell at is closed as of last Sunday. As are all the places I look to for inventory (with one exception, last I checked but maybe closed by now). I live in MA, which had a surge in covid19 cases due to a Biogen conference, so they are taking it pretty seriously here. All restaurants take-out only, theatres closed, most retail businesses closed, working at home if they can. Skinner will still be holding auctions, but closed to visitors so bidding will be online only without any preview of items (who is insane enough to spend lots of money on antiques without being able to see and hold them first?)</p><p><br /></p><p>So how will this affect the antique business? Used/old things have always suffered from being viewed as &quot;old&quot; and &quot;dirty&quot;. Now that old and dirty implies &quot;infected&quot;, will that be yet another nail in the antique business coffin? Will people avoid buying antiques even by mailorder since virus can live on surfaces for an extended time? Has anyone seen an impact on their business yet?</p><p><br /></p><p>Please move if this thread is a duplicate or doesn&#039;t belong here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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