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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 627, member: 67&quot;]I bought and sold my first antique when I was 12 years old. I purchase an art deco mohair couch at a neighbours garage sale with my allowance money and promised my older bother a cut if he would help me deliver it to an antique shop. Since then, I have been a picker, worked flea markets and been a shop owner. I have accumulated and sold several great collections (the only one I truely regret selling is the button collection I started at 16, that eventually filled two hall closets and I had to sell at 23).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to think that I have since met every type of antiques dealer from the most devious to the most kind and generous. But there is one thing that has always turned me off about certain antiques dealers and that is the propensity to blow smoke up each others ars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I have to couch that statement with &#039;certain&#039;, when in fact I mean &#039;many&#039;.&nbsp; Generally, when a dealer gets miffed by any kind of authority, like eBay or Lithium, they stomp off in a huff saying, &quot;I&#039;ll make my own site.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My question to the admins is, is this just going to be another site where dealers sit around and admire each others ..., and anyone who has anything to say against the underhanded practices of &#039;certain&#039; dealers is going to be quickly squelched, or is this going to be a site where egos may be checked and honesty and truth will be allowed?&nbsp; (listen, I have received death threats from dealers at the eBay boards who disagreed with me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I am grateful that I was invited to join, but I would kind of like to know, before I waste my time, if this site will be vanglorious and just another circle jerk of antiques dealers, or if it really is for collectors and sellers to share their knowlege. If that question sounds challanging, I might be sorry, but for my experience with similar sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, if you start your answer with &quot;We want to craft a site that is appreciative and celebrating of...&quot; I got my answer. However, if your answer is along the lines of &quot;We know what you mean, and yes, we encourage and support all viewpoints on antiquing no matter how painful they may turn out to be&quot; then you have invited the right person.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS, I am the worstest spelter and I can&#039;t find the spell check button on this forum and I just can&#039;t be bothered otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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