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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 918, member: 67&quot;]<font face="Verdana">Thank you Skeezix, for that. I actually wrote most of this as an open letter, but I really had the mods in mind. As far as cans of &#039;troll be gone&#039; go, as I suggested, everyone should stand back and let the moderators use their large industrial size, extra strength, concentrated sprays, lest you be sprayed by accident.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">Your story about the glass collector is heart warming and brings back memories of my youth, I also learned a lot from the generous sellers I met and did business with. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">But you seem to have completely missed the main point of my message, in fact ignored it! And that makes me wonder? The operative words of the part you quoted is not <i>I don&#039;t recall that divide existing </i>but rather, <i><b> to that extent</b> before fBay cultivated it</i>. </font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">We probably all know why the collectors of your old group shunned that kindly dealer. It&#039;s because the dealer got up at 4 am, waited in line at the doorstep of an estate sale until it opened at 10 to be the first one in and get all the goodies, which she would sell at a profit. The collectors were jealous. (myself, as a collector, I am thrilled when I see an item at an antique store I really want at a higher price, because that means it was sitting right there waiting for <i>me </i>to snatch it up -and I didn&#039;t have to get up at 4 am to find it.) But I also know the effort it probably took to find that piece, and likely know it&#039;s rarity better than the dealer.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">When I was a dealer, myself, sometimes I would sit around with other dealers and share &#039;war stories&#039;, mostly they were funny, cute or stressed the irony of our jobs -but never anything like the vitriol and disdainful arrogance that was cultivated over the years at the fbay boards. To me, the divide between dealer and collector <b><i>has</i></b> changed <i>drastically </i>since the good old days!</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">Perhaps I was lucky in my youth to meet such respectful and kind dealers, when in reality the rest of the antiquing world is made of greedy dealers who have an unending disdain for the people they sell to? </font></p><p><font face="Verdana"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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