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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 50784, member: 23&quot;]Every time I got a &quot;vacation&quot; I had lengthy email chats with Mods which amounted to them telling me how incorrect my opinion was and how I needed to just chill.&nbsp; About once a month I wrote to complain about DSS and explained why he was evil and toxic, but all they did was defend him.&nbsp; My take is what a lot of folks thought - he was part of their system and his job was to get rid of real experts.&nbsp; I never went back to analyze it, but I think it had something to do with us actually knowing what was new and what was old and interfering with sales.&nbsp; If items can be misidentified and sold for higher amounts, their fees go up.&nbsp; If we poked holes in the provenance, the fees went down.&nbsp; With them, it&#039;s always going to be a case of follow the money.&nbsp; Otherwise, their interference doesn&#039;t make sense.&nbsp; I&#039;d be open to another opinion, but that&#039;s all I could get out of the situation.&nbsp; There were some boards they didn&#039;t touch at all and others where they spent far too much time changing our posts, moving our posts, deleting our posts and giving out pink slaps, Antiques and Collectibles getting the most attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>I left voluntarily before they banned me for life.&nbsp; Once in a blue moon I sell an item or buy something just to keep my ID open.&nbsp; Maybe some day I&#039;ll get back into it.&nbsp; Meanwhile, I sell on Bonanza.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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