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Message:: [QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 3037847, member: 1262"]ANYBODY HAVE ANY UPDATES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ON HOW THIS PANDEMIC HAS IMPACTED THE ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES BUSINESS? I was talking to an auctioneer and he said he expects Gov. DeWine to curtail estate auctions in the next week or so. He says that he has enough consignments and estates for 7 more moderately sized auctions. However he doesn't think he will be able to get them in soon and doesn't want to invest in advertising for these sales or the time of his employees prepping them for sale when a shutdown is coming. So he is pre-emptively shutting down his operations. I expect antique malls to be able to remain open this time around provided precautions such as masks and social distancing are enforced by the establishments who have greater responsibility/penalties under the new orders to police their operations for violators. I expect there to be trouble at a few of our flea markets which are barely contained bastions of lawlessness even in the best of times and currently have about 30% mask usage in their establishments.[/QUOTE]